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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

from Other Souls Janet Kuypers Titanic references from her 2015 poem “Other Souls” Other souls litter history books. - - - I wish I was on the Titanic (that sounds so like me — I’d be the rich elite on the first cruise across the ocean)... I wish I’d gone down, gone down with them.** I don’t care what passenger I am, the point is that people will study the disaster that I was in for centuries. Books will be written. movies will be box office hits. All from me being in the wrong place at the wrong time. - - - Other souls litter history books. Some may have been great, some, as I said, may have been at the wrong place at the wrong time. And after I’ve been attacked, and after I’ve been almost killed, what. I’ve pieced myself back together, I’ve screamed my stories from rooftops, I’ve etched my words into stone. And no one hears me. And if they do, no one will remember.   ** Morrissey, “Munich Air Disaster 1958”

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