Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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After the Wreckage
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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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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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).

The Battle At Hand

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Battle At Hand, after she introduces the first day of the open mic she hosts in Chicago for over 5 years, live at the Cafe in Chicago 1/12/10.

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See YouTube video 7/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Battle at Hand, Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation), and Only an Observer at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)..

See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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of her poems “the Bathroom at he Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” performed in her 5/6/17 Austin show about hosting poetry open mics.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading<

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from “Renegade Winter” her haiku “enemy” and her poems “a Happy Ending to Everything” and “a Crack in the Glass”, then from the poetry from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” she read her poems “erasure poem: The Meaning of Art” and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, then she read from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a Rainy Day” she read her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Orders”, and “the Battle at Hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from “Renegade Winter” her haiku “enemy” and her poems “a Happy Ending to Everything” and “a Crack in the Glass”, then from the poetry from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” she read her poems “erasure poem: The Meaning of Art” and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, then she read from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a Rainy Day” she read her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Orders”, and “the Battle at Hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Change My Perspective
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
in two separate locations

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Changing City
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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a crack in the glass
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from “Renegade Winter” her haiku “enemy” and her poems “a Happy Ending to Everything” and “a Crack in the Glass”, then from the poetry from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” she read her poems “erasure poem: The Meaning of Art” and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, then she read from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a Rainy Day” she read her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Orders”, and “the Battle at Hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Crush/But I Won’t

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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

My Dead Daughter
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5-8/24 “A Library of Collaboration” book poems poems “My Dead Daughter” (+ showing a 10/12/03 show image), “What Women Want” (+ showing

Urbanation images 1 & 2) & “One Day in a City Like This” (which is also in her book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) during her “Poetic License 10/6/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera / an oversun filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

From The Dead
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video of “Disenfranchised Doggerel”, Janet Kuypers’ show at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe (from camera #1 ), which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature

Do I Still

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

i have to explain

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow<

All Your Fault>
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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damned green
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Everything is New

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Kuypers and C Ra McGuirt, Memphis, at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09

For Now I’ll Think
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

Gears get Caught in the Mud
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Genealogically

Gerbil
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Grab The Other’s Neck
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“UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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Holding My Skin Together
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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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

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

How Much For Your Poem

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See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Tapes the Key Hole”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding” and “How Much For Your Poem” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Sony).

how women look in men’s clothing

i can hear
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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instead of feeling nervous
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Life

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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera);
this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Like the Whiteness
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Lost in the Breeze
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Lost in the Breeze” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Lost in the Breeze” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Police”, “People’s Lives were at Stake” and “Lost in the Breeze” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

Military Police

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Military Police (1:53) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control.

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Military Police” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Military Police” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Police”, “Get me out of this Cage”, and “a Child in the Park” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Memorial Day
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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My Second Marriage
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C, edge d.)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery, (S, Threshold)

Once Wanted You as my Friend

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to the 2^nd Axing
at the open mic Sing Your Life

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(3:37) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Once Wanted You as my Friend 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Once Wanted You as my Friend 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 reading her poems “My Father, Shooting an Animal” and “What It Felt Like” and “Once Wanted You as my Friend” (read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

People’s Lives Were at Stake
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

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Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set (order the CD by clicking on the CD cover or title)

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to this recording from Fusion (or order the CD by clicking on the CD cover)

Order this poem from iTunes (mixed 7/3/09, with “Bars Los - Break Free” from the HA!Man of South Africa) off the CD “Seeing a Psychiatrist” online.

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of Janet Kuypers reading the poem People’s Lives were at Stake live 8/28/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “People’s Lives were at Stake” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (Sony).

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “People’s Lives were at Stake” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well”, then sing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on acoustic guitar, then read her poem “People’s Lives Were at Stake”, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” to a live audience for National poetry Month (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Content with Inferior Men” and “People’s Lives were at Stake” from her poetry show “Questions in a World Without Answers”, then her poem “Tall Man” from her poetry show “How Do I Get There?”, all from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v1” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (PL T56).

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

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

Praying to Idols
See this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
And is listed in ChicagoPoetry.com’s 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest >

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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)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Praying to Idols” and “Unless it Happens to You” at the Bahá’í Faith Center (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Praying to Idols” and “Unless it Happens to You” at the Bahá’í Faith Center (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

the Real Bitch of It

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Live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

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(studio session 03/16/09)

I’m A Record Now
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Live at the Cafe
(as a bonus track from the 2004 Chicago Poetry Fest)... Or order any track off the CD Live at the Café through iTunes.

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of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

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from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show

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to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.

This is on the collection CD The Final.
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(1:31) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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See YouTube video from 3/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “I’m A Record Now” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v219 5/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Book Id olatry” poems “Weren’t even Married” (+ 10/12/03 & 6/21/07 show images), “I’m a Record now” (+ 10/12/03 show image), & “(from) In the Air” which is also in the 2022 CyberWit Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”

(+ 6/17/03 show image) during her “Poetic License 5/5/24 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 as video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Scars 2000
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

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

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to the DMJ Art Connection

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/5/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this writing

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

Scenarios 2000

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to this recording from Fusion, or order this track, or any track, off the CD Fusion at iTunes

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/08/09

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Knotted Hate, Floating Away with the Tide and Scenarios 2000 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cfs)

Start All Over
also see this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe at two different locations

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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

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stop drop and roll

tapes the key hole
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Two Minutes with a Decrepit Idol

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olive at Cafe Ballou in Chicago 01/18/10

What It Felt Like
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Listen to an mp3 file, a (low quality) wav file or even a real audio (.ra) file, live 5/22/01 - or get ANY track from the CD Live at Cafe Aloha from iTunes.

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

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