Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

1993

children, churches and daddies
This poem was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release sea drift for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
children, churches and daddies - in Dutch: kinderen, kerken en vaders
This poem translation was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release idols for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Children, Churches and Daddies” (2:00) live at the Café in Chicago 2/26/08 (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN after her Tag Team feature reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading “Scars” and “Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after the Tag Team feature reading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies (in books Life on the Edge, or It All Comes Down, or Hope Chest in the Attic, or Oeuvre, or Janet and Jean Together) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb in Lincoln Square (filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square), Threshold

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cps)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cps)

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of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read interview portions and her prose poem “Scars”, then interview portions and her poem “Children, Churches and Daddies”, then interview portions and her poem “Andrew Hettinger”, leading to her poem “And I’m Wondering” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read interview portions and her prose poem “Scars”, then interview portions and her poem “Children, Churches and Daddies”, then interview portions and her poem “Andrew Hettinger”, leading to her poem “And I’m Wondering” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read interview portions and her prose poem “Scars”, then interview portions and her poem “Children, Churches and Daddies”, then interview portions and her poem “Andrew Hettinger”, leading to her poem “And I’m Wondering” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Sepia tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her poems “Cast in Stone”, “Death”, “Children, Churches and Daddies”, and “Russians at a Garage Sale” from her “Book Expo 2013 Chicago” reading 11/24/13, then her haiku poems “enemies”, “faith”, “ants and crosses”, “census”, “easy”, “existence”, “falling”, and “eventually”, from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading 3/17/14 , all appearing in her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was recorded from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Coquinas
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(3:47) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Coquinas” with accompanying background opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading a number of her poems & prose including this writing (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, accompanying opera vocals from Suzanne Hettinger, and guitar from John) live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of the intro to the 12/18/11 poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poems (music from the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) with this writing

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Kodak Camera

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Samsung Camera

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Christmas Eve” and “Coquinas” live 12/3/16 at the Expressions “Festive Seasons” open mic at the Bahá’í Faith Center in Austin (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video from 4/29/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Coquinas” and “How Do I Explain It” from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” before the official beginning of the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video from 4/29/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Coquinas” and “How Do I Explain It” from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” before the official beginning of the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her haiku “dreams” and her “Seeing Things Differently” poems “The Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 book “Hurricane Katrina”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I Want” from her “Striking with nature and humanity” show, “Coquinas” from her “IPB: Impromptu Poetry on the Beach” show, and then she sang her song “Tight Rope Affair” with john on guitar from her “a Very Goth Beach Feature” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Farmer
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live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (from a Sony) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (Canon psSX700) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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).

In The Air
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(2:27) at the Denver airport 06/17/07 in Denver, Colorado

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Living in a Big World

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of the most popular video Kuypers has ever released (1:54), 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World

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(3:47) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

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to this live recording, performed at Cafe Aloha 04/23/02.

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12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

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with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Sony camera; posted onFacebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman!, Austin

See YouTube video 12/11/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “brewery”, then reading her poem “In The Air” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

One Summer

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See YouTube video 8/28/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Step”, “One Summer” and “John” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video 8/28/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Step”, “One Summer” and “John” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Sony camera).

Oriental

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Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09

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video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera

See YouTube video 6/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “escape” and her poems “Learning More”, “Oriental” and “Elusive Imaginary Creature” for Austin “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic (from a Lumix camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oriental” (plus sharing a Chinese translation) and “No One Reports for Women” from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted onFacebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oriental” (plus sharing a Chinese translation) and “No One Reports for Women” from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Oriental” from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Indium, trying to get through” (+ showing the image for this poem) from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” to start her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Oriental” from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Indium, trying to get through” (+ showing the image for this poem) from the v324 9/22 cc&d issue/book “Open Your Eyes” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” to start her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; @ Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 9-12/22 book “Unable To Escape It” poems “Oriental” + showing its Chinese translation and “No One Reports for Women” (which is also in her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), “Out to the Horizon”, “jar for my beating heart”, and “Indium, trying to get through” + its image (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 1/4/23, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This YouTube video was also released w/ a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 9-12/22 book “Unable To Escape It” poems “Oriental” + showing its Chinese translation and “No One Reports for Women” (which is also in her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), “Out to the Horizon”, and “jar for my beating heart” on 1/4/23, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This YouTube video was also released with a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oriental” (+ showing its Chinese translation), “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere” (+ showing its Hindi translation), “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing its Dutch translation), “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing its Dutch translation), and “the Martyr and the Saint” (+ showing its Dutch translation) from the books “The Paths Less Traveled” and “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” for the 2/1/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram,

and Tumblr). This YouTube video was also filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Slate and Marrow

the poetry audio CD se “Hope Chest in the Attic”

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(2:57) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

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from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
off the CD an american portrait

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of her reading this poem 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling

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of her poem readings 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling

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of Jeff Helgeson reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 4/2/12

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

the Flashback

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to this track
off the CD Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set through iTunes.

Listen: (5:46)

to this recording from Fusion

See YouTube video
live, the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of a compilation of Janet Kuypers’ poems Holding My Skin Together, Any Help At All, conversations three (a day of grieving), transcribing dreams one, the flashback, By Who I Don’t Know, and Did you know I was watching? in the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Flashback live 5/27/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Flashback live 5/27/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

The Fourteenth

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How Do I Get There?

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to this collaboration of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers in pb&j, or buy ANY tracks off their CD 2 for the price of 1, available any time online through iTunes.

See YouTube video
12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

See YouTube video
12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video
with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Samsung

See YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the Kodak)

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Fourteenth at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems The Fourteenth & Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation), and then her 2 poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name as one, at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “The Muse, the Messiah”, and “Paranois” from her book “Chapter 38 v2” (followed by a song by John) at “Poetry Aloud” 5/26/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (less than) “Video Killed the Radio Star” (for World Radio Da, 2/14), “The Fourteenth” and “Violations in the Name of Love” (for Valentine’s Day, 2/14), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 @ “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (less than) “Video Killed the Radio Star” (for World Radio Da, 2/14), “The Fourteenth” and “Violations in the Name of Love” (for Valentine’s Day, 2/14), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 @ “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

the Muse, the Messiah

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(2:41)

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See YouTube video
live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest

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12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video
(This film’s at the Internet Archive)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Muse, the Messiah at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Muse, the Messiah at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

the Page

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(1:39) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

See YouTube video
of Jeff Helgeson reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 4/2/12

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C), including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Page (to inspiration) live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Page (to inspiration) {posterized} live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “The Page” from her book “Hope Chest in the Attic” live at the open mic “Poetry Plus” at Cianfrani’s in Austin (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “The Page” from her book “Hope Chest in the Attic” live at the open mic “Poetry Plus” at Cianfrani’s in Austin (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Cycle, Wedding Lost and the Page (to inspiration) from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at Austin’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Life and Death and Everything Between” show poem “Only Choice is to Build”, then her “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” show poems “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, and “Yearning to Break Free”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Life and Death and Everything Between” show poem “Only Choice is to Build”, then her “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” show poems “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, and “Yearning to Break Free”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v344 4/24 cc&d issue/book “Idle Hands” poems “Quiet as a Painting”, “Gift of Motherhood (two)” (+ showing show image), & “the Page” (+ showing show images 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8) to start her

“Poetic License 4/7/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Wedding Lost

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real audio (.ra) file, performed live at Cafe Aloha 05/22/01.

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live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church
(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago

(23:58) from the Internet Archive

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See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Wedding Lost from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Wedding Lost from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v217 3/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Dark ness Within” poems “Decorating the Lockers” (+ 11/5/08 show image), “Wedding Lost” (+ 11/5/08 show image), &

“Loved You the Most” (+ 5/3/02 show image) during her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

White Knuckled
2012 translation of White Knuckled - in Slovak: “biele hánky”
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

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to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD “Indian Flux”, or order ANY track off the CD “Indian Flux” from iTuners.

Never before seen on social media, see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “White Knuckled” (written in 1993) from her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See this Archive video of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” (23:21) live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by AmJaz for the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork, including her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl)”, “The Men At The Construction Site”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “And What I Want To Know”, “And I’m Wondering”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “Athena”, “Military Police”, “Too Far”, and “Communication ‘05” (from the Internet Archive, this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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live) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control, or buy ANY track off the CD through Amazon Music.

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Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set

See YouTube video
6:25, of these three poems (White Knuckled, Last Before Extinction and And I’m Wondering) at the Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic at Jesse Oaks in Lake County (north of Chicago) on 05/24/07

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(1:22)

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(1:39) Live at the 11/09/07 show The Turn of the Word, Hokin Gallery, Chicago

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11/09/07 Chicago’s Hokin Gallery 7:54

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to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Listen

to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (8/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

See YouTube video
12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

See YouTube video
12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video
with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem White Knuckled live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled and her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Copper read live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon

See YouTube video from 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Nikon Coolpix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)./font>

See YouTube video 7/17/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death, One who Has Too Much from the cc&d July/August 2017 issue v264 book Being Real, and The Dream at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (w/ a Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ Book Release Reading 4/5/17 of cc&d book poetry in Austin’s National Poetry Month Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph” from the Statue, “I’m Really Going This Time” from Give What You Can, “Human Construct of Time” from Sea Drift, “White Knuckled” from Forever Bound, “Entire Town’s Baseball Team” from Suggested Torture, “Jabbed in an Open Nerve” from Idea, “Observing Theories of the Universe” from Idea, and “Entering the Lake of Fire” from Nighttime City (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ Book Release Reading 4/5/17 of cc&d book poetry in Austin’s National Poetry Month Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph” from the Statue, “I’m Really Going This Time” from Give What You Can, “Human Construct of Time” from Sea Drift, “White Knuckled” from Forever Bound, “Entire Town’s Baseball Team” from Suggested Torture, “Jabbed in an Open Nerve” from Idea, “Observing Theories of the Universe” from Idea, and “Entering the Lake of Fire” from Nighttime City (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera and given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “White Knuckled” and “Women’s Very Existence” (in the #metoo section), and “Jumping, Flying” from the performance art section in cc&d June 2018 v284 6/18 25-year anniversary issue 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “Shining” 6/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (P L 2500).

See YouTube video, after Thom Woodruff read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video, after Thom Woodruff read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On Their Way” and “Dreams 01/19/04 Two a.k.a. Dream One: Dog Stuck to my Face” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “White Knuckled” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, originally in the cc&d v 284 25-year anniversary book “Shining”, and read from the (at the time unreleased) cc&d 5-8 2018 issue/chapbook collection book “Across the Wall”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video from 9/6/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “White Knuckled” from the 1^st proof copy of her poetry book “Rape, Sexism, life & Death” at Chicago’s In One Ear open mic (filmed from a Sony camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her two Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (+ displaying the image for the poem) and “Sodium turns into quantum tornadoes” (+ displaying the image for the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poem “White Knuckled” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), plus her new poem “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights” during her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her two Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (+ displaying the image for the poem) and “Sodium turns into quantum tornadoes” (+ displaying the image for the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poem “White Knuckled” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), plus her new poem “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights” during her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Room of The Rape”, “White Knuckled” + showing its Slovak translation, “Women’s Very Existence” + showing its Slovak translation, “Domestic Violence in America, Nashville, Tennessee (stick)” + showing its Slovak translation, “Thank You, Women who Work I” + showing its Slovak translation, and “Photograph, Nineteenth Century” + showing its Slovak translation from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/22 issue collection book “The Paths Less Traveled” and her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” on 1/4/23, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This YouTube video was also filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; both were posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

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