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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journals Extinguished” (written on and for the day in 1824 of the burning of Lord Byron’s journals), “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives” (written on the anniversary of the day Nazis in Germany staged massive public book burnings of “un-German” books), and “Visiting and Seeing the Signs” 5/18/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journals Extinguished” (written on and for the day in 1824 of the burning of Lord Byron’s journals), “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives” (written on the anniversary of the day Nazis in Germany staged massive public book burnings of “un-German” books), and “Visiting and Seeing the Signs” 5/18/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Volumes in Flames while the Soul Flourishes” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, my poem “Amber Beads” from the Scars Publications 2019 reprint of the cc&d magazine v184 May 2008 issue-book “That was the Time”, and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Volumes in Flames while the Soul Flourishes” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, my poem “Amber Beads” from the Scars Publications 2019 reprint of the cc&d magazine v184 May 2008 issue-book “That was the Time”, and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Seasons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Seasons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” 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).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171 “Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171 “Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives Janet Kuypers 5/10/19 (written about censorship on the anniversary of the day Nazis in Germany staged massive public book burnings of “un-German” books) You claim to be well-intentioned when your only desire is to destroy our spirit. You call it decency, morality, but we call it a lack of morality if you choose to squelch every idea other than your own. You may want to consign to flames hundreds of thousands of books, but there is only so much burning you can get done in one night, no matter how many peons you get into a fervor to help you. I don’t care what you think, but you cannot burn our spirit. We will remember these books, we will remember this act and we will remember what you have done to us. You’re trying to take away our freedoms which means you’re trying to rob our minds — there are still those among us who cherish reading these books, and who revel in creating these books. This is robbery, thievery, that you cloak under what you call good intentions. You think we’ll forget, but this is what I want you to remember. Your childish act of destruction is only temporary, remember this, because I don’t care how many fires you set, or how many books you burn, you will never destroy our spirit. Remember this.

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