Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

2005 poetry

A Great American

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(1:23) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06

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

See YouTube video 7/14/18 of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “A Great American”, from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v3”, live at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Communication ‘05

Never before seen on social media, see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Communication ‘05” (written in 1997, edited in 2005) 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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“UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

See the YouTube video of a compilation of ALL of the pieces performed in the 6/21/07 “Uncorrect” show at Jesse Oaks, including the poems “The Way You Tease Me”, “The Battle At Hand”, “Looking For A Worthy Adversary”, “Grab The Other’s Neck”, “Being God”, “Weren’t Even Married”, “God Eyes”, Communication ‘05, and “Andrew Hettinger” in Gages Lake, IL (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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“Type A Person” & “Communication”

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03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

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(5:56, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

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(34:48) of Kuypers in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 with this writing at Swing State

Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight), Dreams 09/08/07 and Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes) at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (from a Sony).

Dreams 05/26/05
Dreams 09/06/05

Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)

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05/10/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books Unknown and Sexism and Other Stories and in cc&d mag v220, the 05/11 issue)

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of the intro to the 05/10/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus the cover of I’m Free at Last & the poems And I’m Wondering & Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)”, “Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)”, & “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)”, “Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)”, & “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl

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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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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Aeon Flux Crawl” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)”, “Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)”, & “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads” (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’ 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).

Fitting the Mold

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fitting the Mold 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fitting the Mold 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon PS).

Flooded War Memories

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(3:49) live, WordSlingers feature, WLUW Chicago radio 88.9FM

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of the introduction at the Café in Chicago, & the poem Flooded War Memorieslive 03/16/10; at the Café; in Chicago

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of this poem read live in her Pilsen feature “Games We Play” 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo (music from Francois Le Roux, the HA!man of South Africa)

Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo from the live feature “Games We Play”, including this poem (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tum blr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic 3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” (by request), “Equality for Women” (written on and for International Women’s Day, 3/14), and “Check your Beliefs at the Door” live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gift of Motherhood 1”, “Thank You, Women Who Work I”, “Coslow’s”, “Chicago, West Side”, “All These Reminders”, “She Told Me Her Dreams I”, “Childhood Memories I”, “Christmas Eve”, “Flooded War Memories”, and “There I Sit”, in this “Slinging the Word” WLUW Chicago 88/3 FM Radio supplement from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” live 8/11/20 in her Tuesday night “Buidlers Book Club” reading (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gift of Motherhood 1”, “Thank You, Women Who Work I”, “Coslow’s”, “Chicago, West Side”, “All These Reminders”, “She Told Me Her Dreams I”, “Childhood Memories I”, “Christmas Eve”, “Flooded War Memories”, and “There I Sit”, in this “Slinging the Word” WLUW Chicago 88/3 FM Radio supplement from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” live 8/11/20 in her Tuesday night “Buidlers Book Club” reading (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Get Me Out of this Cage

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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).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v225 12/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reverse” book poems “The One at Mardi Gras (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)” (which is also in the book “The Universe is in Your Hands”), “Key to Survival” (+ showing 6/7/05 show image, & 8/8/09 show images 1 & 2) & “Get Me Out of this Cage” (+

showing the 6/7/05 show image) during her “Poetic License 12/1/24 Global Open Mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; online on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera and given a Toxic Glitch filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

How Do I Get There?

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Key To Survival (the poem of “J”)

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(5:34) from the Chicago performance art show {Stripped} live 6/7/05

See YouTube video 9/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Open Book”, “Key To Survival” and “Universe... Now In Color” live in downtown Austin’s one-time only reading at Brave New Books (Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This poem was also performed Live at the Cafe, and that track
is now available in a 3 CD set
that you can order at any time from iTunes.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 5-8/24 “The Lives We Deserve” bonus book poems “Manic Depressive or Something”, “Listening to the Cancer Ads”, & “Key To Survival” (& sharing the bonus “Getting Wired” 8/8/09 chapbook front cover image) to close

her “Poetic License 11/3/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed 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 & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Charcoal filter; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Love Affair With The Moon

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems (“Love Affair With The Moon”, “The View of the Alley” and “fast food makes finger food”) 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Love Affair With The Moon 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

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Marry Me... Whatever You Are

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

On All Fours Sequoia in a bowl

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video 10/1/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On All Fours” and “Observations: Nine and Six” at the “Expressions 2016: the Metaphor of Costumes” open mic Janet hosted at the Bahá’í Faith Center in Austin TX (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See this YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “On All Fours” and “Know You” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX720 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “On All Fours” and “Know You”
at “Recycled Reads” (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera video w/ an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On All Fours”, “Know You” and “erasure poem: a Poetic History” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Step” and “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, plus her poem “On All Fours” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 9/9/17 (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On All Fours” originally performed in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poems “Join Me”, and “March Forth”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video from 4/29/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Last Before Extinction”, “On All Fours”, & “Finally Found Home” during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2023 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed

from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This YouTube video was also filmed from a

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This was also released as a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera,

and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersveglife

Outsourcing the American Dream

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) from her book the one thing the government still has no control over

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) from her book the one thing the government still has no control over

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Private Lives 2005

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Living in a Big World

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Living in a Big World

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Private Lives 2005”, “Precinct Fourteen”, and “Holding my Hand” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Suing NASA For Comet Play

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Suing NASA For Comet Play 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 Suing NASA For Comet Play 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

The Quiet One

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The Writing Of My Life

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The View of the Alley

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem The View of the Alley 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem The View of the Alley 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (hue cycling)

Tribal Scream

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

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as performed by Mark Clayton Graham in New Mexico

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(1:21) read from the full color book Living in a Big World, live 12/14/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Tribal Scream from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Tribal Scream from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “What the Hell is she Complaining About”, “Now You’re Nothing To Me”, and “Tribal Scream” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “What the Hell is she Complaining About”, “Now You’re Nothing To Me”, and “Tribal Scream” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (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 reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic 3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 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).

We Listened

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to this recording from Fusion

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of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j

What I Would Ask

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What the Hell is She Complaining About
2012 translation of What the Hell is She Complaining About - in Slovak: “Na čo sa do pekla sťažuje”
This poem was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release idols for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem What the Hell is she Complaining About live 8/13/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What the Hell is she Complaining About live 8/13/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What the Hell is she Complaining About 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 the Hell is she Complaining About live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “What the Hell is she Complaining About”, “Now You’re Nothing To Me”, and “Tribal Scream” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Your Minions are Dying

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) from her book the one thing the government still has no control over

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) from her book the one thing the government still has no control over

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/10/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her twitter-length poem “Juxtaposition, or Irony?” in conversation, then reading her poems “Pluto, Plutonium & Death”, “Your Minions are Dying” and “Salesman” 10/23/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot camera).

poems about news stories:

Airbags — for Security and Defense

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You can also see the above video at music.com,
and this video is also on jokeroo.

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of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive

Anything for the Liquor Fix

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, live in New Orleans 12/22/08

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).

Bad Tricks with the Cue Stick

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Big Hair and Fire Don’t Mix

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See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Intelligence, “Big Hair and Fire Don’t Mix” and “Utopia Never Happened” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Lumix).

Choose Your Fate: by Knife or by Car

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Cigarette Butts are Lethal

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Couch Potato

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(:57) from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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Doctors, Breast Implants and Huge Pectoral Muscles

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read before the Kevin Michael Wehle poem Home live at the Cafe 11/10/09

fast food makes finger food

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem fast food makes finger food 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

...or see the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem fast food makes finger food 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (this vide owas filmed from a Canon camera, then given an edge detection filter).

God Will Save Me

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hand-grenades, chainsaws and fireworks (oh my)

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

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:38, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

Internet Chainsaw Relationship

See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Internet Chainsaw Relationship”, “the Perils of Lovemaking” and “The Self-Knifing?” in the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Lumix).

I Wanna Be Like Jesus

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John Stories

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lava (lamp) at a rolling boil

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago, w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

low-end lipo

Octopi Target McDonalds

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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “guard” (written 9/26, on and for National Situational Awareness Day), then her poems “Vampires and Blood-Sucking Mosquitos Alike” (written 10/6, on and for Garlic Lover’s Day), “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” (for mid-October’s Astronomy Day), “Kill with Impunity” (written 10/7, on and for the 1900 birthday of Heinrich Himmler), “Octopi and Brains” and “Octopi Target McDonald’s” (for 10/8, World Octopus Day), “Because of Fire” (written 10/8, on and for the start of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, that lasted 2 days), “Judging the Chicago Seven” (written 10/9, on and for the day of the beginning of the 1969 trial against the Chicago Seven), and “‘the Robot Zombie Witch Girl’ revisited” (for 10/10, National Zombie Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/6/20 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 haiku “guard”, then her poems “Vampires and Blood-Sucking Mosquitos Alike”, “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Kill with Impunity”, “Octopi and Brains” and “Octopi Target McDonald’s”, “Because of Fire”, “Judging the Chicago Seven”, and “‘the Robot Zombie Witch Girl’ revisited” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/6/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

organic sex toy

Running Toward Your Demise

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from the DMJ Art Connection

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Terrorism Intelligence

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See YouTube video
(1:44) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/16/08

Enjoy the full Internet Archive video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy the full YouTube video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature (Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Terrorism Intelligence” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook
the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “End of an Empire”, and “Escape My Brain Somehow” from her book “Give Me the News” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “End of an Empire”, and “Escape My Brain Somehow” from her book “Give Me the News” at “Recycled Reads” <(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pint erest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video during Thom Woodruff’s multi-person intro to the open mic of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “(and you could hold me)”, “See You Crawl”, and “Choices” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” live 4/8/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video during Thom Woodruff’s multi-person intro to the open mic of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “(and you could hold me)”, “See You Crawl”, and “Choices” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” live 4/8/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video during Thom Woodruff’s multi-person intro to the open mic of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “(and you could hold me)”, “See You Crawl”, and “Choices” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” live 4/8/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video during Thom Woodruff’s multi-person intro to the open mic of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “(and you could hold me)”, “See You Crawl”, and “Choices” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” live 4/8/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video during Thom Woodruff’s multi-person intro to the open mic of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “(and you could hold me)”, “See You Crawl”, and “Choices” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” live 4/8/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video during Thom Woodruff’s multi-person intro to the open mic of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Terrorism Intelligence”, “(and you could hold me)”, “See You Crawl”, and “Choices” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” live 4/8/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poems “Terrorism Intelligence” and “The Cycle”, from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v2”, and then her poem “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” from the the cc&d book “Shining” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic to a live audience (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

The Good “Doctor”

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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Clay” and her poems “The Good “Doctor””, and “Seven Ten, Seven Twenty” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

The Hands of a Handyman

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the First Death of the New Millennium

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “The First Death of the New Millennium” (guitar by John from from his original blues song) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10, at Regina’s Place; Logan Square (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing the second 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 “The First Death of the New Millennium”, “Don’t Go To Denny’s” and “Before Taking Over the Controls” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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).

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).

the perils of lovemaking

The Power of the Devil

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Chapter 38 (v3)
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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

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

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of Kuypers’ open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the entire open mike, w/ this poem (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, & piano from Gary)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems A Little Angel Inside, Whether Or Not It Is From Religion and The Power of the Devil at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (from a Canon Power Shot).

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 self-knifing?

Too Many Guns

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poems from past essays:
Flexible Ethics
Hanging For Justice
the Emotion in DNA

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