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Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/17/24 of the “The Universe is in Your Hands” Janet Kuypers 2024 poetry book feature at the Tangible Books event in Chicago, where she read (as one long reading) her poems “Queen ISIS”, “Enveloping Fog”, “Otherwise Never-ending Saver of Life”, “Just Far Enough to Feel Free”, “Willie Pete”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Xyresic Flames (The Universe is in your Hands edit)”, “Because of a Fire”, “Big Shoulders: This Was Her Home”, “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Ever Elusive Happiness”, from her CyberWit 2024 poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera & zoomed; on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/24 “Shattered Facades” & the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poems “Because of a Fire”, “Retracing Steps Through History” (+ sharing Dinosaur track images 1 & 2), & “Culture Woven into Cloth” (+ showing Panamanian “mola” woven cloth art images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 1/5/25 Global Open Mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed from a Samsung S24 camera / a Green Screen filter; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Because of a Fire Janet Kuypers 3/5/24 When we see a fire overtake the 850-year old Notre Dame, a monument to religion, beauty, history — then wildfires engulf islands, ravage a quarter-million acres annually, we are shocked by the loss from fire, that primal silent killer. But we keep candles lit, hear the crackling campfire, feel the fireplace warmth, which reminds us how we still love fire so. Because if mass fire seems to mean death and destruction, maybe, after, say, the 1871 great fire of Chicago that took over the only city I love, maybe that destruction only led to building something bigger, better, stronger, that made more sense. Even Chicago’s underground subways are made from the post- great fire pedestrian underground walkways. And when I now walk in diverse cultural neighborhoods until I reach the Lake, I turn to see the most beautiful skyline I’ve ever seen... that’s when it clicks. This frightening history of fire — that scares some so, well, afterward? That’s when people create something that seems so right. Because of a fire.

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