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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On Ashes” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and “Killing Women for Healing”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On Ashes” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and “Killing Women for Healing”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and then showed her twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, and “Killing Women for Healing” and then showed her twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, live 6/29/19 while she guest-hosted “Poetry Aloud(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and then showed her twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, and “Killing Women for Healing” and then showed her twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, live 6/29/19 while she guest-hosted “Poetry Aloud(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video ofJanet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Just Names” (written on and for Memorial Day) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, preceded Ron Kewen singing a song about her poem, during her hosting her the “Poetic License” open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 8/4/19 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video ofJanet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Just Names” (written on and for Memorial Day) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, preceded Ron Kewen singing a song about her poem, during her hosting her the “Poetic License” open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 8/4/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Hue Cycle).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 5/20 “Imagination” book poems “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 5/20 “Imagination” book poems “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” from the v297Imagination” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” from the v297Imagination” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Just Names

Janet Kuypers
5/24/19, linked on twitter,
Instagram, and Tumblr

I didn’t think much of it
when I was in Washington, D.C.
and the journalist in me
was photographing the Viet Nam
memorial wall. While there
I saw a woman there, to revere
a name etched in stone;
others put flowers there, but I,
I was just there to take
pictures of it. That was my job.

It was only when they
made a “traveling wall”, only then
did I go there with him,
all the way up to Kenosha, Wisconsin
so that we could look
for our own name, reflect upon
the life lost in our own
family, for it to really hit home.

He served for 6 years,
He met his end in South Viet Nam.
He was a Green Beret.
But it doesn’t say that on the wall.

His wife never remarried.
She stayed in the same house
she picked with my cousin
all these years. But it doesn’t say

that on the wall either.
There are so many stories that wall
cannot begin to explain.
Names, just names is all it shares.


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