Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

2023

Beginning of the Universe

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Beginning of the Universe”, “Out Toward the Horizon”, “Neodymium magnets up your nose”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, &

“Kiribati” from her manuscript of the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” in front of the grain tower for Circle Brewing Company on 4/28/24 for “the 2024 Poetry Bomb” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v346 6/24 31st anniversary cc&d issue/book “Time piece” poems “Beginning of the Universe” & “End of the Universe” (which also appear as the first and last poems in the Summer 2024 release of the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers

poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) to start her “Poetic License 6/2/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Beginnings (and the end?) of War

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v345 5/24 cc&d issue/book “Wand erer” poem “Beginnings (and the end?) of War” (which also appears in the Summer 2024

release of the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) to start her “Poetic License 5/5/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera & a Charcoal filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

breath

End of the Universe

Enveloping Fog

Finally Found Home

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). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersveglife

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 T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from 4/29/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Last Before Extinction”, “On All Fours”, & “Finally Found Home” during the 2023 Animal Tales at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera;

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 1-4/23 issue collection book “Forbidden Library” poems “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs” and “Our Ships Would No Longer Cross” (both also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), + her new poem “Finally Found Home” to close her “Poetic License 6/4/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video from 4/27/24 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Original Snowbirds”, “Ultimate Connectivity: a Bird in the Hand” “Finally Found Home”, and “Retracing Steps Through History”, all poems appearing in the 2024 CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book

”The Universe is in Your Hands” and performed to accompanying electric guitar background music during the 2024 Tablerock Poetry Festival for the “2024 Animal Tales Anthology Launch” at Tablerock of Salado, TX (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video of Zoomed footage of the Samsung S9 video stream; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.

Also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.
Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersveglife #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Finally Found Home” for the CyberWit 2024 poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” to people who lived in the poem’s location, read

live at the Shawnee State Park on 8/10/24 in Shellsburg, PA (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream of this poem reading (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; linked on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

Mementos and Memories

Question and Answer time

Enjoy this YouTube video on 8/9/23 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Evil of What They’ve Done”, “After All We’ve Accomplished”, “On a Sunday after a Sermon”, “Question and Answer time”, “Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Right”, and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” in her poetry feature “Into the Spotlight” of women’s rights poems from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testa ment”, performed

just after the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram,

and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This (now deleted) Facebook live video stream was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr) before it was deleted, was liked & loved video

on its Facebook page & its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & was liked on its Instagram page & its “Poetic of Heart”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets of Merit & Expression” pages too. #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v338 10/23 cc&d issue/book “All They Ever Were” poems “Question and Answer time” (+ images 1, 2, & 3, & the poem is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), “Cadmium and Cancer” (+ images 1 & 2, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Cadmium” (+ show images 1 and 2, + image, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this video as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories

Enjoy this YouTube video from 4/29/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories” for its appearance in and from the “2023 Animal Tales” book anthology 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. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v339 11/23 cc&d issue/book “Pieces of the Past” poems “Domestic Violence in America, Nashville, Tennessee (stick)” (+ show images 1, 2 & 3) & “Journal 20150116 8:07AM IST” (w/ these two pieces in her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, + her journal also in the book “Bon Voyage!” on travel to India), & her Animal Tales 2023 poem “Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic”

she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (video filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

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