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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her new poems “Other People’s Worlds” and “Language” live 1/26/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her new poems “Other People’s Worlds” and “Language” live 1/26/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Language” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” and then showed her Instagram and twitter image from the poem, “Unity for Humanity”, then her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too” 6/29/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Language” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” and then showed her Instagram and twitter image from the poem, “Unity for Humanity”, then her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too” 6/29/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Language Janet Kuypers Instagram and twitter poem, 1/18/19 language is one of the first things we learn to communicate what we need to survive you may have heard that language is a virus, but I beg to differ, it’s too ingrained in us to be the enemy, to be our downfall, to be something we have to fight to survive so no, I say language actually leaves a residue, a film that since childhood sticks to you you can’t escape the words thrown at you, the words you hear, the words you read and some of those words may be like a virus infecting your thoughts and invading your brain but some words in that language can touch you like a feather, to gently tickle and entice you and that language of yours can pour over you like warm honey you could spend hours licking remember, language pours over you like water, like at your birth, when you heard your first words language has touched you, since the beginning, until the end, and that language always sticks

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