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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One Would be Chosen” (written 10/12 for the 1492 date Christopher Columbus Discovers America), “Farmer” and “Verdant Green” (for 10/12, National Farmers Day), “Vacuum of Space” (written 10/11, on and for the day in 1984 when astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger as the first American woman to perform a space walk), “No Bother” (written 10/13, on and for Good Samaritan Day), “Valkyrie attempts” (written 10/14 on 1944 date of the suicide of Erwin Rommel), “Everyone Will React” (written the 3rd Tuesday of October, on and for National Face Your Fears Day), “Know they are Loved” (written 10/16, on and for Global Cat Day), “You Don’t Expect It” (written 10/17, on and for World Trauma Day), “Violent Endeavour” (written 10/18, on the 1967 date the first space probe entered another planet’s atmosphere (Soviet Venera 4 to Venus), “Know they are Loved”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” (written the 3rd Saturday of October, on and for Sweetest Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was 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 “One Would be Chosen”, “Farmer”, “Verdant Green”, “Vacuum of Space”, “No Bother”, “Valkyrie attempts”, “Everyone Will React”, “Know they are Loved”, “You Don’t Expect It”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 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

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 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 live video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book anthology “Stardust in Hand” 2/2/22 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 2/2/22 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 and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

You Don’t Expect It Janet Kuypers 10/17/19, written on World Trauma Day When something terrible happens, when you find out you have cancer      or someone you love has cancer or maybe it’s ALS, or a life-threatening illness, you’re shocked with the news and then you, for weeks, or months, or years, slowly start to deal with all the pain that will slowly come. It’s a terrible thing, but the first thing that came was the news of this demon, to prepare yourself for the excruciating uphill battle. It’s a terrible thing to live through when you’re the loved one seeing someone suffer so, and it is worse for the victim, the one faced with fighting this painful uphill battle — because even after survival, they all still carry the scars of the fateful trauma. But there is one trauma that seems painfully worse than hearing something awful that at least you have time to prepare for. Because it could happen, to any one of use, crossing a street, or stopping in your car at an intersection, some stupid mistake by someone else could almost kill you, or someone you love. And what do you do then, with no time to prepare yourself for the terrible news, other than wait in a hospital, hopelessly trying to piece the pieces back together.

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