Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

1998

The Recovery

The Second Half of the Year

These poems are unedited and written in a journalistic style, and some are very long. These pieces were written shortly after a debilitating accident, changing the author’s attitudes and views about her surroundings.

These pieces are grouped in cluster within the half year by theme. Within each stylistic section the pieces are alphabetic.

A beacon alone
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

A Diamond
A Diamond - in Persian

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live at Regina’s Place 12/18/09

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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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(a poem mentioning fire, read in front of a fire 07/12/09)

Afraid of Telling The Truth
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09

See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xerostomia”, “Afraid of Telling The Truth” and “Fifteen Gun-Toting Tweets” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Sony camera).

A Lifetime Together
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
even in two separate locations

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem a Lifetime Together live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem a Lifetime Together live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing

All The Details
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(:54) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

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and flowers and funerals
and flowers and funerals in Croatian

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Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09

And I Don’t Care

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

And It’s Wide
And It Was Fun

A New Idea Pretty Quick

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A New Patient

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live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach Poets
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(25:19), from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Any Help At All

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from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

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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 C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 3) poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis 28”, “Imagination”, “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “Hallucinations”, “Imagining Friends and Loved Ones”, “Imagining Dave”, “No One Gave Me Flowers”, “As I Recovered”, “(from) Any Help At All”, “Will Be Just Fine”, “They Wouldn’t Trust Me with a Razor”, “(from) Get It Over With”, “Like My Motto”, and “Being God” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 3) poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis 28”, “Imagination”, “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “Hallucinations”, “Imagining Friends and Loved Ones”, “Imagining Dave”, “No One Gave Me Flowers”, “As I Recovered”, “(from) Any Help At All”, “Will Be Just Fine”, “They Wouldn’t Trust Me with a Razor”, “(from) Get It Over With”, “Like My Motto”, and “Being God” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Are The Things That I Like
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Are They Invincible

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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’s Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

A Select Few Things
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

As I Recovered
2012 translation of As I Recovered - in Slovak: “Ako som sa zotavila”

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading a set of poems (“the Burning” and 3 near-death accident-related poems) live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “As I Recovered” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “As I Recovered” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her poetry from the Down in the Dirt v167 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Why Peace Will Forever Elude Us”, including her poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “You Do What You’re Told”, and “Imagination”, then her “Death Comes in Threes” poems “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “As I Recovered”, “Will Be Just Fine”, and “Get It Over With”, all read live (with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her poetry from the Down in the Dirt v167 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Why Peace Will Forever Elude Us”, including her poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “You Do What You’re Told”, and “Imagination”, then her “Death Comes in Threes” poems “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “As I Recovered”, “Will Be Just Fine”, and “Get It Over With”, all read live (with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

At Least That’s What I Hear
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09

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l(1:11) read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That.

A While
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis w/ C Ra McGuirt

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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2)

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Bad And Good
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Better

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But It Is Cute

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

But I Won’t
But These Pleasures
But You Know What I Mean

By Who I Don’t Know

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

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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1)

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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2)

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Called Me Twice
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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sung, 03/26/09
(music from John Yotko)

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partially sung, 03/26/09
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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1)

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Changing Garments
2012 translation of Changing Garments - in Slovak: “Striedanie Odevov”

See YouTube video recovery poems “Changing Garments”, “Supposed To Be Done”, “Making Sense Out Of The Insane”, “Someone Give Me the Answers”, & “Feel So Much” read live at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

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(:38, at Lookout Mountain in Golden, CO 06/15/07)

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King of the Universe and Changing Garments (6:52)
from the show 6/11 06/11/02
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Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

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from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive

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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

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(:43, of just the poem) 11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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Conscious Of It

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live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach Poets
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(25:19), from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Crazy Women Talking: This Much I’ve Learned
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/03/09

Creatures Can Live In Worlds
Creatures Can Live In Worlds - in Hindi
“Creatures Can Live In Words” is in the Starite Cafe

Deal With That Over The Years

Did you know I was watching?
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

Don’t Need The Crutches
2012 translation of Don’t Need The Crutches - in Slovak: “Nepotrebujem barly”

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(1:29) studio session “etc.” book reading
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Do That For Me Then
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live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis w/ C Ra McGuirt

Do You Still Want To See Me

Driving Car Into Ditch
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Driving Car Into Ditch 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Driving Car Into Ditch 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Each Morning

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

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(~:32)
in Denver, CO 06/16/07

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(:33) in Denver, CO 06/16/07

(~:34)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Each Morning”, “Seasons 1998”, “Became a Jungle”, and “Keep Driving” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enough So Far
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

everyone else does it
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

View or download the free PDF file chapbook “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” with all of the writing in the live “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show, including the song “What We Need In Life”, the poems “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everyone Else Does It”, “King of the Universe” + commentary, “Are They Invincible”, “Left with a Hole”, portions of the poem “How Do I Explain It” with commentary, “Motions on the Planet”, “ Ten and Two, Plus Eight”, and the song “My Love for You Will Stay the Same”.

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, both read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” @ “Recycled Reads” 12/15/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, both read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” @ “Recycled Reads” 12/15/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How to Please a Woman” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and then her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Feel So Much
2012 translation of Feel So Much - in Slovak: Cítim to‎ko..
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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First

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For My Car Or My Life

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “For My Car Or My Life” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

For The Moment

Frisbee By The Lake
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Genuinely Tired Of Looking

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her poetry from the Down in the Dirt v167 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Why Peace Will Forever Elude Us”, including her poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “You Do What You’re Told”, and “Imagination”, then her “Death Comes in Threes” poems “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “As I Recovered”, “Will Be Just Fine”, and “Get It Over With”, all read live (with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Get Me Through My Life
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

Get The Idea
Getting Used To Something New
Given A Warning Early On

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Going To A Rock Concert
Good Things Have Happened to Me Too

Gotten To That Part

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Had A Point
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Happy New Year, Janet

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing the first third of her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10, with Janet and John also playing background music throughout the show (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square), which included her poems “Have You Ever Had”, “Happy New Year, Janet” and “Helping Men in Public Places” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Hasn’t Happened Yet
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Have To Ask
Have To Ask - in Bengali
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Have You Ever Had

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Have You Ever Had” (with Janet and John on guitar playing “The First Noel”) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10 (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square). This video also includes intro talk from her show (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Have You Ever Had, Understanding what’s Crazy and I Blow Bubbles at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Have You Ever Had, Understanding what’s Crazy and I Blow Bubbles at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (this video was filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “More than we Should have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor show, her poem “Have you Ever Had” from her “new year’s unplugged show, then her poem“Writing Your Name” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, live 9/8/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Have You Ever Had” originally performed in her “new year’s unplugged” show and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “Queasy Feeling” (written on National Sword Swallowing Day), live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls” (+ live show images one and two), and “Have You Ever Had” (+ live show images one and two) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls” (+ live show images one and two), and “Have You Ever Had” (+ live show images one and two) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, and “Spit Me Out” from the v322 6/22 cc&d 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” 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 janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, and “Spit Me Out” from the v322 6/22 cc&d 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” from section 2 of the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 10/5/22 on 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, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” from section 2 of the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” 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

Here’s Your Chance

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

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How I Imagine You

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).

How many times I’ve done it

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Read in studio live 03/23/09

I Blow Bubbles

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I’d Laugh More

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I Know It’s Not Going To Happen
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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I’m Not Used To That

In The Room
In The Room - in Gujarti
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Is it just me
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Isn’t That What It’s All About (prose)
This poem (in English and in a Slovak translation) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Isn’t That What It’s All About” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Isn’t That What It’s All About” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Things They Did to You”, “Isn’t That What it’s all About”, and “Left with a Hole” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Is To Blame For It

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It’s Only The Tip
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I’ve Done That, So Have You

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I Want More Than That
I Want More Than That - in Kannada
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Janet Being Alone
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

a dedication piece to David Jarvie - jarv
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

just goes nuts
Keep Yourself Occupied
killing the tired

Kill Yourself

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live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago
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Know Any Better
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Know How The Truth Is
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Truth Is Out There”, “Know How The Truth Is” and “Bad Rhyming Poetry can be Contagious” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Sony).

Last Wednesday

Late for a Class

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Learn To Do That Too
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Like My Motto
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Looking Out For Number One

Makes Me Love To Hate You More
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Make Things Better

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Make Us Laugh

Making Sense Out Of The Insane
2012 translation of this poem in Slovak: “Dávať zmysel nezmyselnému”

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(1:34) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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(13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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Maybe That Is Enough
Maybe That Is Enough - in Gurmukhi
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Maybe You Can
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Mean to Me
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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See YouTube video
(:43) studio session “etc.” book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07

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Men Are Dogs Is True

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My Height Any Longer

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My Life Changing
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My Lunchtime Dream

My Turn
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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My Wishes Come True

Needy Person
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New

No Place

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem No Place 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem No Place 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Not For Me Yet
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Not Getting Better
2012 translation of Not Getting Better - in Slovak: “Stále mi nie je lepšie”

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no there isn’t

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On the Flip side
On the Flip side - in Welsh

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Pleasure and Pain

Pool Together Our Money

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Prepared for the Worst

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Pressure On Me Again

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

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(:53, 06/15/07)

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06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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Princess Diana, One Year Later

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See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 1) poems “after”, “choke”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, “Princess Diana, One Year Later”, “Explosive Energy”, “Touch (2019 edit)”, and “quake” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 1) poems “after”, “choke”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, “Princess Diana, One Year Later”, “Explosive Energy”, “Touch (2019 edit)”, and “quake” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Reads Wrong

Rhode Island Is Neither A Road Nor An Island
Rhode Island Is Neither A Road Nor An Island - in Danish

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/15/10

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of the poem Rhode Island is Neither a Road Nor an Island, after the intro and before she read the Charlie Newman poem Yellow Rat Bastard for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/15/10

Right In Front Of Me

Say It In The First Place
Say It In The First Place - in Swedish

Seasons 1998

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Read by John Yotko live
at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02

See YouTube video 9/21/17 of Janet Kuypers in her show “Seasons Change”, with her poems “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, “Original Snowbirds” (in her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”), “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Sepia Leaves”, “Quell the Vibrancy”, “Seasons 1998”, and “Death Takes Many Forms” (video filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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“Seasons Change” with “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Sepia Leaves”, “Quell the Vibrancy”, “Seasons 1998”, and “Death Takes Many Forms”.

Senses

Short-Term Advice
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Slow Painful Death

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So Many Lies
So Many Lies - in Sanskrit

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Someone Give Me the Answers

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Listen: (4:39)

to this recording from Fusion

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems “Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Face book Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems “Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Someone Like Me
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Sometimes It’s Not

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem from her book Stabity Stabity Stab Stab Stab at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (accompanied by live piano music from Gary)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “With You” {edited for this live reading}, “Moonlight” and “Sometimes It’s Not”, all from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v1” during Thom’s multi-person intro 6/24/18 to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her poetry from the Down in the Dirt v167 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Why Peace Will Forever Elude Us”, including her poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “You Do What You’re Told”, and “Imagination”, then her “Death Comes in Threes” poems “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “As I Recovered”, “Will Be Just Fine”, and “Get It Over With”, all read live (interspersed with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her poetry from the Down in the Dirt v167 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Why Peace Will Forever Elude Us”, including her poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “You Do What You’re Told”, and “Imagination”, then her “Death Comes in Threes” poems “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “As I Recovered”, “Will Be Just Fine”, and “Get It Over With”, all read live (interspersed with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ominous Day”, “Being God”, “Poem About This”, “ends of the earth”, and (from) “Sometimes It’s Not”, then her prose “Imaging Friends and Loved ones”, then her poems “keyboard” and “quake”, and her prose “Scars”, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2019 collection book “Art House”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ominous Day”, “Being God”, “Poem About This”, “ends of the earth”, and (from) “Sometimes It’s Not”, then her prose “Imaging Friends and Loved ones”, then her poems “keyboard” and “quake”, and her prose “Scars”, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2019 collection book “Art House”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

So To Speak

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Stilts

Supposed To Be
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Supposed To Be Done

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Supposed To Make Us Laugh

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Suspend My Beliefs
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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take it all away

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Take It All Away 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Telling What you Want And Hearing What You Want
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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That Adorable Together
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

That I Get
that we wish

The Answers

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The Bad Stuuf That Could Be

The Hunter and The Fox
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(:48) at a pool 06/16/07 in Denver, Colorado

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See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, and live piano from Gary)

The Same For You
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

the solutions to the answer

the things they did to you
2012 translation of the things they did to you - in Slovak: Veci ktoré Ti urobili
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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(2:49 withy a cool alternate voice effect, recorded 04/13/08) sampled by the DMJ Art Connection

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(2:17) read 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

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of 3 death-related poems (including this one) live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “The Things They Did To You” from her book “Rape, Sexism, Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

The Third or fourth Fourth of September
The Third or fourth Fourth of September - in Czech

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The Time To Myself

The Truth and Liars

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See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Truth and Liars”, “Our Couple In Love” and “only choice is to build” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Lumix camera).

the world

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Their Crutches

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from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems “Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Then That Too
They Know How You Feel
Things I Find Charming
Things I’ve Needed

Think About It Much

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Think About It Much 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Think About It Much 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Think of It

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Thinks That Through
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

This Halloween Again

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(1:07) live 11/02/10 at the Café in Chicago

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See YouTube video 10/1/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “This Halloween Again” in her show “Masquerading in Costumes & Personas” at the Expressions 2016: the Metaphor of Costumes show at Austin’s the Bahá’í Center (Cps).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 10/1/16 show “Masquerading in Costumes & Personas” at Expressions 2016: the Metaphor of Costumes in Austin reading her poems “Curium” “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 10/1/16 show “Masquerading in Costumes & Personas” at Expressions 2016: the Metaphor of Costumes in Austin reading her poems “Curium” “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” (from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Masquerading in Costumes & Personas

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “a Finch in the Window” poems “origin, from the macro to the micro”, “violence and peace both work”, “Masquerade” “Curium”, “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “a Finch in the Window” poems “origin, from the macro to the micro”, “violence and peace both work”, “Masquerade” “Curium”, “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

To Get To That Point

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Want That Too You Know
Want That Too You Know - in Telugu
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis w/ C Ra McGuirt

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We All Want That
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 8/16/21, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” starting ~5:55, “Sometimes the Light” starting ~14:22, “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26, “We All Want That” starting ~31:20, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” starting ~37:30, “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” starting ~41:00, and “Out to the Horizon” starting ~1:04:20)(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 8/16/21, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” starting ~5:55, “Sometimes the Light” starting ~14:22, “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26, “We All Want That” starting ~31:20, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” starting ~37:30, “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” starting ~41:00, and “Out to the Horizon” starting ~1:04:20 (filmed w/ a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers on WZRD Chicago 88.3 FM 8/16/21 from WZRD, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” starting ~5:55, “Sometimes the Light” starting ~14:22, “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26, “We All Want That” starting ~31:20, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” starting ~37:30, “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” starting ~41:00, and “Out to the Horizon” starting ~1:04:20 (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 8/16/21, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” (starting ~5:55), “Sometimes the Light” (starting ~14:22), “The Room of The Rape” (starting ~17:26), “We All Want That” (starting ~31:20), “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” (starting ~37:30), “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (starting ~41:00), and “Out to the Horizon” (starting ~1:04:20) (this video was filmed and streams live from a Samsung S7 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Well, Someone Is

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Well, What About Me

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What Do You Do
What Do You do - in Papiamentu

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What Have I Won
2012 translation of What Have I Won - in Slovak: Čo som vyhrala?
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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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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part of the poem read from memory in from of the Miami Holocaust Memorial 12/26/08

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “What Have I Won” from her book “Rape, Sexism, Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “'What Have I Won” from her book “Rape, Sexism, Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her poem “What Have I Won” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, “Drinking Their Life Away”, “Labeled Me Again”, “Prefer Things Soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit me Out”, and “Painted Buddhas”, and then she sang her song “My Love For You Will Stay the Same” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

What I Go Through

What It All Means

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What it all Means from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera with a Posterize; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What it all Means from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What it all Means from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S hue cycle; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)

(Not To Share My Dreams Again) - What Makes Me Real
what the truth looks like
When You Walk
When You’ve Only Got You
where i left off

Which I Like
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Will You Let Me Know

Wrong Attention
Wrong Attention - in Tamil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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You Know What I’m Talking About
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

You Remembered Too

You Will
You Will - in Marathi
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

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