“We don’t read and write poetry because it is cute.                             
We read and write poetry because we are members of human race.”

from “Dead Poets Society” said by Robin Williams as John Keating

See twitter-length poems & video links:
twitter/janetkuypers
twitter/jkpoetryvine.

and all of her videos online on
YouTube
Some videos can also be found at archive.org and the vine page.
poetrypoetry

“She could have been a poet, or she could have been a fool”
from “This Night Has Opened My Eyes” by the Smiths

Looking for a poem?
Then find poems sorted by letter:
Poems will also share links to video or audio recordings of the poem, plus potential book releases.
(Poems starting with a smaller word like “an” or “the” will be sorted alphabetically by the first letter in the poem (even a smaller word.)


Wanna find old & new poems?
Then find poems sorted by year:
Poems will also share links to video or audio recordings of the poem, plus potential book releases.



Wanna see the big list?
Then see the complete poetry listing page of only writing links...
For if you don’t know titles or when pieces were written,
& want to peruse all poems, the complete poetry listing page
lists all poems written, sorted alphabetically by year
(with no audio or video links).




Poets compose poems.
regular people rhyme stuff.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, May 2015, StarTalk



You can also browse through past issues
of cc&d magazine or Down in the Dirt magazine
for videos of her reading accepted writings
live at The Café Gallery at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret


Though some recordings of Janet Kuypers
reading other people’s writing

are here for you to view as well...



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