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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (written on Nature Photography Day) “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” (written 6/16, the day in 1940 when a Communist government took over Lithuania), and “Learning More (2019 edit)” (edited on Father’s Day), live 6/16/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (PLT56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (written on Nature Photography Day) “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” (written 6/16, the day in 1940 when a Communist government took over Lithuania), and “Learning More (2019 edit)” (edited on Father’s Day), live 6/16/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (P2500).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Learning More (2020 edit)”, written on Father’s day in 2019 from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at Circle Brewing Company on Father’s day in 2020, 6/21/20, as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Learning More (2020 edit) Janet Kuypers 6/16/19 (Father’s Day, edited from her original poem “Learning More”) It is amazing how I learn more, how I take it all in — how I think I am just learning little random pieces of information, and that is when I find out that all of the pieces relate, that there is meaning to almost anything I see or do. You were making all the details possible by working so hard. Thank you, and I thank you because mom and you are what made us us I know all us kids were somehow creative, but... once I was looking in an unused stove in the basement, and found a box of old black and white photographs, and I didn’t know where they came from. I asked you, dad, and you said you used to be a photographer, that you took pictures when you were in high school, developed these pictures. And now this gave me my own snapshot of you, too. This was something I learned about you through chance, first hand. Learning about you, getting these tiny glimpses — it is as if I have taken these snapshots of your life... Now I can slowly piece this all together to make the picture more complete. I know that life is not easy and that it all takes work — your life has been difficult at times, your life has been rich as well. Your life has also made me rich, rich from you, from being a part of your life. When people now tell me things about myself, I know where the pieces came from that have made me whole, I know who has given this to me — and I thank you for that.

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