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Experimental Poetry: backbone family act

Bad And Good
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

Bad Rhyming Poetry can be Contagious

Watch the YouTube video Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09

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 (Lumix).

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).

Bad Tricks with the Cue Stick

Listen to the CD recording from the 09/20/05 performance art show SIN (Scars Internet News)

See YouTube video from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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

Bamboo (poem on Facebook)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her Tiananmen Square poem “'Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom” she wrote on 6/2/19, then her poem “Ever Felt Safe” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” poems “Ominous Day”, “Bamboo” and “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her Tiananmen Square poem “'Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom” she wrote on 6/2/19, then her poem “Ever Felt Safe” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” poems “Ominous Day”, “Bamboo” and “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading<

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her Instagram and Twitter poem “Ominous Day”, then her poems “Bamboo” and “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her Instagram and Twitter poem “Ominous Day”, then her poems “Bamboo” and “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “For Far Too Many Years” (which was also read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), plus “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “Brittle”, “Meningitis, Six Feet Under”, and “Bamboo”, while she was guest-hosting the “Open Mic Showcase 8/17/19 at Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “For Far Too Many Years” (which was also read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), plus “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “Brittle”, “Meningitis, Six Feet Under”, and “Bamboo”, while she was guest-hosting the “Open Mic Showcase 8/17/19 at Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quignogs: make Someday Today” (written 9/15, on a holiday for “Someday”), “Keep Looking for Hope” (written 9/16, on Anne Bradstreet Day, the day the British poet Anne Bradstreet passed way in 1672; b. 1612), “Bamboo” (for World Bamboo Day, 9/18), and “Only Man on Earth” (written 9/21, on the International Day of Peace) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” 9/15/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, “Keep Looking for Hope”, “Bamboo”, and “Only Man on Earth” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” 9/15/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (video filmed and streamed w/ a Samsung S9 camera).

barbed (haiku, on Twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku barbed live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku barbed as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C, flipped, with a heat wave filter)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku barbed as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C)

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 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 T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

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.

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, and console (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 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, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Barbie
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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

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

See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

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

See YouTube video read live 09/13/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

See YouTube video of the introduction to the 09/13/11 weekly poetry open mike she hosts live at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poetry (including this poem) from her ISBN# poetry book Contents Under Pressure

See YouTube video live 1/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Truth Is Out There”, “Barbie” and “optimizing your odds” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video live 1/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Truth Is Out There”, “Barbie” and “optimizing your odds” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (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 11/4/17 show “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” @ “Expressions” in Austin, performing her poems “Barbie”, “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera w/ HA!Man of South Africa music and her projected rotating art display; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/4/17 show “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” @ “Expressions” in Austin, performing her poems “Barbie”, “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera w/ HA!Man of South Africa music and her projected rotating art display; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View the 11/4/17 show poems in the free PDF file chapbook “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” containing the poems “Barbie”, “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”.

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie”, and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie”, and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie” and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose ““Type A” Person”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie” and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose ““Type A” Person”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Barbie” from her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” show and from the cc&d May-August 2018 issue collection book “Across the Wall”, live at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 3/23/19 (this video was filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Barbie” from her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” show and from the cc&d May-August 2018 issue collection book “Across the Wall”, live at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 3/23/19 (this video was filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Valentine’s Day, every Day” from the 2/20 v294 cc&d issue/book “Mask”, then her poems “Barbie” and “Lessons from the Simpsons”, both read from her cc&d volume 2 poetry collection book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, live 2/15/20 at the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Valentine’s Day, every Day” from the 2/20 v294 cc&d issue/book “Mask”, then her poems “Barbie” and “Lessons from the Simpsons”, both read from her cc&d volume 2 poetry collection book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, live 2/15/20 at the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Barbie”, “The One At Mardi Gras”, “Who You Tell your Dreams to”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/6/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Barbie”, “The One At Mardi Gras”, “Who You Tell your Dreams to”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/6/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Barium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12 “Periodic Poetry” chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12 “Lights on our Insides” chapbook (as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook) w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table Poetry” book poems “Barium” (which is also in the book “Wanderer”, + showing 11/21/12 show images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5) & “Gold” (which is also in the book “Book Idolatry”, + showing 5/10/13 show images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 5/5/24 global open mic” through Zoom and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Charcoal filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Barium Dateline poem on Facebook and Twitter

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ image), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ image), “Carbon”, “Barium Dateline”, and “Gold for the foolish at heart” (+ image) from the Scars Publications 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ image), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ image), “Carbon”, “Barium Dateline”, and “Gold for the foolish at heart” (+ image) from the Scars Publications 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Barium Dateline”, ad “Gold for the foolish at heart” from the Scars Publications 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/6/22” 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 #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Barium Dateline”, amdns “Gold for the foolish at heart” from the Scars Publications 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/6/22” 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading set 1 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te), “Iodine on the X Files” (#53, I), “Xenon discovers dark energy?” (#54 Xe), “Xenon, Stranger than Strange” (#54, Xe), “Cesium for Certainty” (#55, Cs), and “Barium Dateline” (#56, Ba) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading set 1 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te), “Iodine on the X Files” (#53, I), “Xenon discovers dark energy?” (#54 Xe), “Xenon, Stranger than Strange” (#54, Xe), “Cesium for Certainty” (#55, Cs), and “Barium Dateline” (#56, Ba) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Bar Poem 20100423

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera)

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 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 “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Bases Loaded

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Bases Loaded (in the chapbook “Bases Loaded”) 4/26/15 (C) at Chicago’s 2015 Poetry Bomb (at Wrigley Field) filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera

See this YouTube video 4/26/15 of the Janet Kuypers show “Bases Loaded” poetry at Wrigley Field for the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago, of poems relating to baseball, including her poems “Entire Town’s Baseball Team”, “New to Chicago (2015 baseball edition)”, “Even Got to First Base”, “One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out”, “Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere”, “Bases Loaded”, and “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poem in the free chapbook “Bases Loaded” w/ poems read on 4/26/15 at the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bases Loaded”, “Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere” (+ sharing 2015 Poetry Bomb “Bases Loaded” Wrigley Field show image), & “New to Chicago (2015 baseball edition)” from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Basic Investment Question

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

bear (haiku, on Twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku bear live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku bear live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem bear (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem bear (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “bear” from Down in the Dirt’s v138 July/August 2016 issue/book Suicidal Birds as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/8/16 (Samsung Galaxy S7).

See facebook video from 1/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “bear” from Scars Publications’ Jul./Dec. 2016 Down in the Dirt Issue book “Edible Red”, filmed as a 6 second Vine video (with a Samsung Galaxy S7 camera phone).

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.

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, and console (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 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, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein

See YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video 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, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

See YouTube video from 3/19/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Games We Play” and “erasure poem: a Declaration of Female Freedom” live at Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video from 3/19/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Games We Play” and “erasure poem: a Declaration of Female Freedom” live at Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then her poems “Games We Play” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” from her book “Say Nothing” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then her poems “Games We Play” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” from her book “Say Nothing” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (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 reading her poems “Only Searching” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Under the Sea” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Only Searching” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Under the Sea” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers live at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 reading poetry in 3 sets from her her “Revealed”. In set 1 she read her poems “Seven and Seven, Plus Eighteen”, “Observations: Nine and Six” and “Eleven and Two, Plus Eight”. In set 2 she read her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls”. In set 3 she read her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers live at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 reading poetry in 3 sets from her her “Revealed”. In set 1 she read her poems “Seven and Seven, Plus Eighteen”, “Observations: Nine and Six” and “Eleven and Two, Plus Eight”. In set 2 she read her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls”. In set 3 she read her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show (that will air 3/1/20 on tv), live at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center 12/14/19 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show (that will air 3/1/20 on tv), live at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center 12/14/19 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video when Janet Kuypers was featured in a half-hour Texas Nafas Poetry television show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), where, while being interviewed about her poetry, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (this DVD of the entire TV show was also posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Download for free or read online the PDF chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, including her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)” (bonus poem), “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (bonus poem), and “And I’m wondering”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 5/30/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers (airing 5/30/20). During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books.

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book”, “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Use Your Mind”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, “Ominous Day”, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Effigy”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “No One Will Forget”, “One With Wildlife”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day), “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11, the 1833 birthday of Robert G. Ingersoll), her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” and her poem “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, National Aviation Day), “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day), “Value of What Money Does” (written 8/24, the 1967 date when, led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party disrupted New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills on the trading floor), “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” (for 8/24, Pluto Demoted Day), “Ominous Day” (for the 8/24 79 A.D. date of the Mount Vesuvius eruption), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi), “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” (for the 9/1/79 date the Pioneer spacecraft visits Saturn), “No One Will Forget” (for the 9/3/44 date Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last 3-day train from the Westerbork transit camp to theAuschwitz concentration camp), “One With Wildlife” (written 9/4, on National Wildlife Day), “Visiting and Seeing the Signs” (for Grandparents Day, the 1st Sunday after Labor Day), and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, (for 9/17, Constitution Day), recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting August and September event poetry within the book, including her poems “Effigy”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Extension of Violence, Cute as a Button”, “Engineering with Creativity”, “Onto a Page”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” (for the 9/1/79 date the Pioneer spacecraft visits Saturn), “Extension of Violence, Cute as a Button” (written 9/1, the 1901 date Vice-President Teddy Roosevelt used the phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick”), “Engineering with Creativity” (written 9/3, on National Skyscraper Day), “Onto a Page” (for 9/6, National Read a Book Day), and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, (for 9/17, Constitution Day), recorded 8/9/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay via the mp3 podcast (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Orion”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, and “Universe... Now in Color” in the “Night Sky” section, and her poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering” in the Public Access Poetry section, of the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” for The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Orion”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, and “Universe... Now in Color” in the “Night Sky” section, and her poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering” in the Public Access Poetry section, of the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “the Periodic Table of Poetry” for public access television in her 2020 “Nafas” interview/poetry show, for “8 poems, 8 days, 8 invites” poems for The Russian Almanac. #PeetMeNotLeave (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 11/19/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstv

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 11/19/20. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 1/7/21. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the fourth airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 1/7/21, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the fifth airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 3/22/21, watching her interview and her poem readings of “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuyperspoetryshow   #janetkuyperstv

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV stations in Austin during the live re-broadcast), everyone can now enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 3/22/21. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers Scars Publications poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/20/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/20/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, and Instagram). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy the Facebook live video stream of the majority of the 10/18/21 television re-broadcast of the Janet Kuypers Texas Nafas TV show that aired on Austin Public Access TV at 1:00 PM CST, interviewing Janet Kuypers and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering”.

Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “Quiet Stream”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (filmed with a Canon video camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “Quiet Stream”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (filmed with a Sony video camera)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading eleven Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 9 Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Sony; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium (with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa, with Quiet Stream) live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium (with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa, with Quiet Stream) live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Became a Circus

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Outsider” in honor or Brian Lamont, her instapoem “Hide from the World”, then her poem “Became a Circus”, during the first “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 6/2/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Outsider” in honor or Brian Lamont, her instapoem “Hide from the World”, then her poem “Became a Circus”, during the first “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 6/2/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse” and “Became a Circus” from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” live 8/15/19 at Dripping Springs’ Thirsty Thursday (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse” and “Became a Circus” from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” live 8/15/19 at Dripping Springs’ Thirsty Thursday (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (this video was filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, & given a Posterize filter).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Became a Circus” and “Out of Wedding Dresses” from the v321 5/22 cc&d book “The New Normal” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and 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 “Became a Circus” and “Out of Wedding Dresses” from the v321 5/22 cc&d book “The New Normal” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and 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 “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Became a Circus”, “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), “Zouk or Xibelani”, “Out of Wedding Dresses”, and “Human Construct of Time” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Became a Circus”, “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), “Zouk or Xibelani”, “Out of Wedding Dresses”, and “Human Construct of Time” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Became a Jungle

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

Watch the YouTube video :22 of just the poem Live at Twtter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

See this YouTube video of part two of the Janet Kuypers Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 in Logan Square, with her poems “labeled me again”, “prefer things soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit Me Out”, “Painted Buddhas”, and “Swallowing Sand & Pebbles” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video read live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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 “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 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 “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera Sepia Tone).

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 “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 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 “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, Posterize).

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).

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 2500 camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” (plus showing multiple live show images one, two, three, and four) 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 (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera & b&w Old Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” (plus showing multiple live show images one, two, three, and four) 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 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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

Because I Am Told

See YouTubevideo live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

Because of a Fire

Because of Fire

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Judging the Chicago Seven” (for the beginning of the trial against the Chicago Seven) and “Because of Fire” (for the 10/8/1871 start of the Great Chicago Fire, that lasted 2 days) from the cc&d 10/20 v302 book “Wildflowers” live 9/29/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Online (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Judging the Chicago Seven” and “Because of Fire” from the cc&d 10/20 v302 book “Wildflowers” live 9/29/20 during the Spoken Word Paris / Spoken Word Online (streamed w/ a Samsung S9 camera).

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).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Judging the Chicago Seven”, “Kept Religion out of Politics”, “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi”, and “Because of Fire” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” for “The Café Gallery 3/2/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Judging the Chicago Seven”, “Kept Religion out of Politics”, “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi”, and “Because of Fire” as her closing poems from the “Wildflowers” section of the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” for “The Café Gallery 3/2/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems (including this one) in her “Taking off the Mask” feature and chapbook (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems (including this one) in her “Taking off the Mask” feature and chapbook (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “found pandemic haiku”, “Everyone’s Afraid”, “Out to the Horizon”, “jar for my beating heart”, “Because of Fire”, “Underground History”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, “No One Reports for Women”, “like nothing ever happened”, “United We Wonder”, “Knew the Word”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” in her poetry feature “Taking off the Mask” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera and zoomed; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “found pandemic haiku”, “Everyone’s Afraid”, “Out to the Horizon”, “jar for my beating heart”, “Because of Fire”, “Underground History”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, “No One Reports for Women”, “like nothing ever happened”, “United We Wonder”, “Knew the Word”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” in her poetry feature “Taking off the Mask” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

Because There’s Nothing To Tell

Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in the 3 CD set Live at the Cafe through iTunes any time.

See YouTube video (1:54) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 8/14/97

you can also find this song listed at FlixYa

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Listen: (2:16) to this recording from Fusion

Listen to this collaboration of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j

Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CDetc. ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Posterized)

Because This Is What We Do

See YouTube video (1:07, at the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO 06/15/07)

See YouTube video (2:08, live at the Cafe 07/10/07)

Listen to this track from the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One, which can be ordered any time online at iTunes.

Listen from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack off the CD an american portrait, which can be ordered any time online at iTunes.

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

Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CDetc. ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiver with no Home” and “Because This Is What We Do” (cut off) 9/25/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiver with no Home” and “Because This Is What We Do” (cut off) 9/25/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot camera, Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiver with no Home”, “Because This Is What We Do” and “An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage” 9/25/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (the video of this poetry reading was filmed with a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiver with no Home”, “Because This Is What We Do” and “An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage” 9/25/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Sony camera, and then given a Threshold filter).

Becoming a Woman
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Been a World Leader

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Sony)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

See YouTube video of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Samsung), including this piece

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)

Download this poem in the free 10/3/12 “Janet with HA!” chapbook w/ material from their live show together.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her 3 poems “Exempt from the Draft”, “Been a World Leader” and “the Way you Tease me” 11/13/16 (with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa, &#entering the ruines”) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her 3 poems “Exempt from the Draft”, “Been a World Leader” and “the Way you Tease me” 11/13/16 (with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa, &#entering the ruines”) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ “Lengthy World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Freedom just past the Fence”, “My Kind of Town”, “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, “The Little Differences” and an edited “Communication 2012” (this video was fiolmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ “Lengthy World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Freedom just past the Fence”, “My Kind of Town”, “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, “The Little Differences” and an edited “Communication 2012” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Been a World Leader” from her “Janet with HA!” show, her poem “Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds” from her “Nashville Halloween” feature, and her poem “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species” from her “This Just In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, live 9/15/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Been a World Leader” from her “Janet with HA!” show, her poem “Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds” from her “Nashville Halloween” feature, and her poem “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species” from her “This Just In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, live 9/15/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Revealed”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Revealed”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” 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 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 “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” during 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 #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” during her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted in 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 “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (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 “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” 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

Before I can Put a Smile on my Face Again

See YouTube video (5:07) live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video with the Edge Detection filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video with the Sepia Tone filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video with the Film Age (older) filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video with the Threshold filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

Before I Learned Better

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See YouTube video (1:07, at Cafe Netherworld in Denver, CO 06/15/07)

Watch the YouTube video (1:26) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

Or watch the complete video of the entire fortune featurette (13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) from the house camera

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) from the Kodak camera

See YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Never Did the Same, Before I Learned Better, Can’t Answer That One and Sorry Flowers) live in Chicago at Poetry “Love Letters” open mike 6/9/12 (Samsung)

See YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Never Did the Same, Before I Learned Better, Can’t Answer That One and Sorry Flowers) live in Chicago at Poetry “Love Letters” open mike 6/9/12 (Sony)

Before it Occurred to Me

See YouTube video (1:00) read w/ Jenene Ravesloot live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video from the intro to the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, & her short story Stalker

See YouTube video of two mini-features at the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, 1st of her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, then of her short story Stalker (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers mentioning her poem “Evicted Today”, then reading her 3 poems “Egg Drop Soup”, “Quibbling over Religion” and “Before it Occurred to Me” 8/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers mentioning her poem “Evicted Today”, then reading her 3 poems “Egg Drop Soup”, “Quibbling over Religion” and “Before it Occurred to Me” 8/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before It Occurred to Me” and “Refuse in a Single Church” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before It Occurred to Me” and “Refuse in a Single Church” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

Before Taking Over the Controls

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Before Taking Over the Controls” (guitar by John, fashioned from the song “Ojo” by Leo Kottke) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10 at Regina’s Place in 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 “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Writing Your Name”, and “Scars 1997” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Writing Your Name”, and “Scars 1997” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; ED).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Writing Your Name”, and “Scars 1997” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; ST).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Writing Your Name”, and “Scars 1997” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; Th).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers live at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 reading poetry in 3 sets from her her “Revealed”. In set 1 she read her poems “Seven and Seven, Plus Eighteen”, “Observations: Nine and Six” and “Eleven and Two, Plus Eight”. In set 2 she read her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls”. In set 3 she read her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers live at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 reading poetry in 3 sets from her her “Revealed”. In set 1 she read her poems “Seven and Seven, Plus Eighteen”, “Observations: Nine and Six” and “Eleven and Two, Plus Eight”. In set 2 she read her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls”. In set 3 she read her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

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”, “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

Before Taking Over the Controls 2015

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago, w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago, w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

Download these poems in the free chapbook Poetic Shades of Chocolate w/ poems read 6/20/15 at 10 Shades of Chocolate show in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” (written on and for Victims of Violence Wholly Day), then her poem “Before Taking Over the Controls (2015 edit)”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” (written on and for Victims of Violence Wholly Day), then her poem “Before Taking Over the Controls (2015 edit)”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was given a Sepia Tone filter).

be free of you

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See YouTube video (:20) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of “the Thom Experience”, where Thom is on stage & asks others to join him, and in the middle of his open performance space Janet Kuypers read her poems “Spit Me Out”, “Fingers Black” and “Be Free of You” 9/18/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of “the Thom Experience”, where Thom is on stage & asks others to join him, and in the middle of his open performance space Janet Kuypers read her poems “Spit Me Out”, “Fingers Black” and “Be Free of You” 9/18/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 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 “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

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, Linkedin, 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, Linkedin, 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 “Timepiece” 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, Linkedin, 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, Linkedin, 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 “Wanderer” 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, Linkedin, 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, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

behind (haiku, on Twitter)

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See YouTube video #1 of U.K. poet Oz Hardwick reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku behind live 52/11/14 near a church in Chicago

See YouTube video #2 of U.K. poet Oz Hardwick reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku behind live 52/11/14 near a church in Chicago

See YouTube video #3 of U.K. poet Oz Hardwick reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku behind live 52/11/14 near a church in Chicago

See YouTube video (C) of Oz Hardwick on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku behind in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Oz Hardwick on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku behind in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem behind (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem behind (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2017 Book Release Reading 8/2/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Ancient Colors” poems “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks”, “Step”, “jumped”, “behind”, “gone”, “bruised” and “oceans” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2017 Book Release Reading 8/2/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Ancient Colors” poems “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks”, “Step”, “jumped”, “behind”, “gone”, “bruised” and “oceans” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the book “Negative Space” her haiku and short poems “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, and “addiction”, her micro prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, and “Only an Observer” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the book “Negative Space” her haiku and short poems “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, and “addiction”, her micro prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, and “Only an Observer” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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 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 T56).

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.

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, and console (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 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, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Being God
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

Listen: (3:48) to this recording from Fusion, which you can order any time from iTunes...

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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange

Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

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

Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

See YouTube video (3:12) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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See YouTube video read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

See YouTube video read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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

See YouTube video of this poem read over video of her walking around a Serbian church and gravesite in Gurnee, Illinois 01/03/11

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

See YouTube video (2:22, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

See YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

See YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (from the book Get Your Buzz On) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (from the book Get Your Buzz On) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poetry from assorted books at the 2013 Chicago Book Expo (S) - WITH THIS POEM

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 2; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 1; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 2; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon Power Shot; all of this night venue’s reading videos is on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon Power Shot, Posterize; all of this night venue’s reading videos is on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video (Nikon CoolPix S7000) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God 12/20/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video 12/20/15 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Being God, Looking For A Worthy Adversary, and True Happiness in the New Millennium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Violence There & Quibbling over Religion, and Being God at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Violence There & Quibbling over Religion, and Being God at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” 4/23/18 at Austin’s Buzz Mill open mic (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and given an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “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 reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “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’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her Life and Death and everything between poems “Echo in my Mind”, “Erasure Poem: ‘One of the most Hated Women in America’”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Cofounding”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her Life and Death and everything between poems “Echo in my Mind”, “Erasure Poem: ‘One of the most Hated Women in America’”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Cofounding”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

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 Publications 2019 collection book “Art House”, during her January 2020 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 Publications 2019 collection book “Art House”, during her January 2020 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).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Legacy” 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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Legacy” 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 through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Being God”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, and “All These Reminders” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 4/4/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Being God”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, and “All These Reminders” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 4/4/21” she hosted w/ a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed w/ a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Berkelium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Berkelium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (S)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Berkelium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “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 reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Edge Detection).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Legacy” 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 “Legacy” 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).

Berkelium can recycle radioactivity
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Rhenium: the little element that could”, “Osmium when capitalism prevails”, “Iridium blankets the earth”, “Astatine’s rarity may save us from cancer”, “Francium, of the feline persuasion”, “Radium’s Faint Light”, “Actinium & the next-gen for cancer”, “Protactinium, and voilà... rocks?”, “Curium’s radioactive glitter”, “Berkelium can recycle radioactivity”, “Californium’s a double-edged sword”, “Californium-252: communication, thanks to nuclear”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, “Nobelium is fought for in transfermium wars”, “Nobelium: war or peace”, “Lawrencium: were we wrong?”, “Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Roentgenium, too scarce to waste”, “Copernicium makes the worlds go ‘round”, “Flerovium, doubly magic?”, “Livermorium, vanishing in our grasp”, and “Tennessine is what I get...” (+ showing the images that accompany poems) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Beryllium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodica table poem

Beryllium Shimmers poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 8/7/19 reading her Periodic Table Twitter poems “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Helium Rising”, “Helium Addict”, “Lithium Desperation”, and “Beryllium Shimmers” in front of a Buddha statue in Chicago (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 8/7/19 reading her Periodic Table Twitter poems “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Helium Rising”, “Helium Addict”, “Lithium Desperation”, and “Beryllium Shimmers” in front of a Buddha statue in Chicago (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 8/7/19 reading her Periodic Table Twitter poems “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Helium Rising”, “Helium Addict”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon Copy”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Oxygen Save Me”, and “Oxygen Feeds” in front of a Buddha statue in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 8/7/19 reading her Periodic Table Twitter poems “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Helium Rising”, “Helium Addict”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon Copy”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Oxygen Save Me”, and “Oxygen Feeds” in front of a Buddha statue in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and was given a Hue Cycling filter).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “On the Surface”, “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Helium Rising”, “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “Just a Little Crazy”, and “Katie” from the Scars Publications 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “On the Surface”, “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Helium Rising”, “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “Just a Little Crazy”, and “Katie” from the Scars Publications 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen laced with Pi/π”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Helium Addict”, “Helium Rising”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Boron’s Birth”, and “Boron nitride stretching” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen laced with Pi/π”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Helium Addict”, “Helium Rising”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Boron’s Birth”, and “Boron nitride stretching” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Best Friend

See YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems

See YouTube video of the her mini-feature INCLUDING THIS POEM (with background base by John Yotko) live 10/11/11 at the Café

Better

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

Big Hair and Fire Don’t Mix

Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection

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 (Sony).

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).

Big Shoulders: This Was Her Home

Bimbo (twitter-length poem)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Bimbo live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Bimbo live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the later part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poems she read for the Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the later part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poems she read for the Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (Lumix video with an Edge Detection filter).

See Facebook live video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (from a Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone).

See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (facebook live video with a Threshold filter).

View or download the free PDF chapbook “Drop the Bomb” 4/30/17 of all of the short Janet Kuypers poems she read from her live 4/30/17 reading in Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb (plus one bonus poem).

See YouTube video from 4/30/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her “Drop the Bomb” poems for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with control, earth, enjoy, unbounded, Just Thinking About It, Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Bismuth (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago with this poem, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music “All Fall Down” in the background (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music in the background, of “All Fall Down” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, starting and ending w/ her poetry mini features, with this poem

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon)

See this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago with her 5 poems “Touching Cobalt”, “Bismuth”, “Cadmium”, “Manganese” and “Cesium” (Sony; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago with her 5 poems “Touching Cobalt”, “Bismuth”, “Cadmium”, “Manganese” and “Cesium” (Canon; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Download this poem in the free chapbook Mega Reading, w/ Periodic Table poems read live 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “from Hydrogen to Nothing” (bonus poem for 1, H), and “Bismuth” (83, Bi) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/10/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “from Hydrogen to Nothing” (bonus poem for #1, H), and “Bismuth” (#83, Bi) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/10/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Silver” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, then her poems “Bismuth” and “Cesium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Silver” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, then her poems “Bismuth” and “Cesium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Bismuth in an ocean of one
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & given a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this YouTube video 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter & a Sepia tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”, “My Kind of Town”, “Communication 2012”, and “Holmium” from the v324 cc&d book “Into the Surf” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”, “My Kind of Town”, “Communication 2012”, and “Holmium” from the v324 cc&d book “Into the Surf” on 8/3/22 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” her Periodic Table poems “Dysprosium” and “Holmium” (which also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Dysprosium-162; from superfluid to supersolid” (+ image), “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (+ image), and “Holmium, only one atom” (+ image) on 12/7/22, 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). This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

bitter suburbs

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video 9/12/1 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (from a Canon Power Shot; heat wave filter).

See YouTube video 9/12/15 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 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 “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News

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

Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (2 CD set, w/ live bonus track from the show Seeing Things Differently)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her first 4 poems performed (“the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons”, & “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, 3:58) at the Red Lion Pub 8/14/97 to start her Chicago show “Seeing Things Differently” (this video is on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Listen to the CD from the 09/20/05 performance art show SIN (Scars Internet News)

Watch the YouTube video 1:32, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

See YouTube video (1:21) from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her haiku “dreams” and her “Seeing Things Differently” poems “The Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 book “Hurricane Katrina”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

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

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

blood (haiku, on Twitter)

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See YouTube video (S) of Esteban Colon reading the Janet Kuypers haiku blood in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (C) of Esteban Colon reading the Janet Kuypers haiku blood in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem blood (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem blood (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

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 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 T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, reading her poems “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “violation”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “unbounded”, and “quarrel” from the cc&d 9/12 2017 issue collection book anthology “Language of Untamed Spirit”, before reading her 3 haiku poems “eventually”, “enemies” and “blood” from the 2017 Scars Publications poetry and prose collection book anthology “On a Rainy Day” (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 1/3/18 “January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, reading her poems “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “violation”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “unbounded”, and “quarrel” from the cc&d 9/12 2017 issue collection book anthology “Language of Untamed Spirit”, before reading her 3 haiku poems “eventually”, “enemies” and “blood” from the 2017 Scars Publications poetry and prose collection book anthology “On a Rainy Day” (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 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.

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, and console (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 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, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Bohrium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Bohrium in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Bohrium in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (S)

Download this poem & more in the free PDF Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace chapbook, w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Bohrium is the secret
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Bolt of Lightning poem on Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Bolt of Lightning”, “Overtake Me” (written during National Anxiety and Depression Week), and “Out of Wedding Dresses”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Bolt of Lightning”, “Overtake Me” (written during National Anxiety and Depression Week), and “Out of Wedding Dresses”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera & given a Sepia Tone filter, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poems “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Dreams 2/3/19”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 6, she read her poem “Quesadich in our Underworld” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poems “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Dreams 2/3/19”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 6, she read her poem “Quesadich in our Underworld” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera and given a Sepia Tone filter, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “Xtc from Found “Candy””, from the May 2021 v183 issue of Down in the Dirt’s paperback book “Alone Time”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “Xtc from Found “Candy””, from the May 2021 v183 issue of Down in the Dirt’s paperback book “Alone Time”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, and “Unchecked Electricity” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, and “Unchecked Electricity” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, and “Unchecked Electricity” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a triangle filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, and “Unchecked Electricity” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

bored the night before 9/11 (a twitter-length poem)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems bored the night before 9/11, and September 11, 2001 at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 9/11/15 Cfs200).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems bored the night before 9/11 and September 11, 2001 at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 9/11/15 Cps).

See Facebook live video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (from a Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone).

See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (facebook live video with a Threshold filter).

View or download the free PDF chapbook “Drop the Bomb” 4/30/17 of all of the short Janet Kuypers poems she read from her live 4/30/17 reading in Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb (plus one bonus poem).

See YouTube video from 4/30/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her “Drop the Bomb” poems for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with control, earth, enjoy, unbounded, Just Thinking About It, Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Boron from the Big Bang (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch YouTube video of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)

Watch YouTube video of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (C)

See this YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series back and forth with poems by Buddha309 in Science vs. Mysticism, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (video from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See this YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series back and forth with poems by Buddha309 in Science vs. Mysticism, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (video from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Download this poem in the free PDF file Science vs. Mysticism chapbook, w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Boron from the Big Bang live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Boron from the Big Bang live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Boron from the Big Bang live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Boron from the Big Bang live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Boron from the Big Bang”, “Tellurium”, and “Yttrium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “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 Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Boron from the Big Bang”, “Tellurium”, and “Yttrium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “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 reading her poem “Boron from the Big Bang” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Beatles song “Yesterday” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (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 poem “Boron from the Big Bang” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Beatles song “Yesterday” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Boron from the Big Bang” from her 5/10/13 Science vs. Mysticism poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and her 2019 poem “Ominous Day” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Boron from the Big Bang” from her 5/10/13 Science vs. Mysticism poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and her 2019 poem “Ominous Day” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Boron from the Big Bang” from the Down in the Dirt 9/20 v175 book “In the Singularity” during the “Poetic License open mic 9/6/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, then posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Boron from the Big Bang” from the Down in the Dirt 9/20 v175 book “In the Singularity” during the “Poetic License open mic 9/6/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron from the Big Bang”, “Extension of Violence, Cute as a Button”, “Engineering with Creativity”, “One With Wildlife”, “Onto a Page”, “Explore your Imagination”, “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, and “Keep Looking for Hope” from the v175 “In the Singularity” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron from the Big Bang”, “Extension of Violence, Cute as a Button”, “Engineering with Creativity”, “One With Wildlife”, “Onto a Page”, “Explore your Imagination”, “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, and “Keep Looking for Hope” from the v175 “In the Singularity” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

Boron nitride stretching poem on Facebook and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vacant Spaces (dreams 4/10/20)” and her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Boron nitride stretching” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vacant Spaces (dreams 4/10/20)” and her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Boron nitride stretching” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Dear Diary” (written 9/22, on Dear Diary Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”, then her her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poems “Boron nitride stretching”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Strontium and 3-D time” to close the 9/19/20 Open Mic Showcase (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 poem “Dear Diary” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”, then her her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poems “Boron nitride stretching”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Strontium and 3-D time” to close the 9/19/20 Open Mic Showcase (Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” 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 #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen laced with Pi/π”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Helium Addict”, “Helium Rising”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Boron’s Birth”, and “Boron nitride stretching” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen laced with Pi/π”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Helium Addict”, “Helium Rising”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Boron’s Birth”, and “Boron nitride stretching” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers#janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Boron’s Birth poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (filed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (filed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” 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 #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen laced with Pi/π”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Helium Addict”, “Helium Rising”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Boron’s Birth”, and “Boron nitride stretching” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen laced with Pi/π”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Helium Addict”, “Helium Rising”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Boron’s Birth”, and “Boron nitride stretching” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers#janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

brain (haiku, on Twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem “brain” during the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 haiku poems “escape”, “brain” and “enemy”, & later her poem “Cast in Stone” w/ people on stage for the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (S).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku poems “brain”, “escape”, and “don’t”, plus her poems “Xerostomia” & “Utopia Never Happened” from her show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PLT56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku poems “brain”, “escape”, and “don’t”, plus her poems “Xerostomia” & “Utopia Never Happened” from her show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” PL2500.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (this video was filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, & given a Posterize filter).

Breakfast in Las Vegas (Dreams 07/06/06 One)

Breaking Their Heart

See YouTube video (2:00) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 8/14/97

Listen: (2:21) to this recording from Fusion

Listen to Kiki, Jake & Haytstack off the CD an american portrait

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

Download the free poem chapbook Farewell Chicago of this & other poems read 8/14/15 at a live Chicago show

breath

brewery (haiku, on Twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku brewery from cc&d’s Scars Publications book a Perfect Solitude live on Bourbon Street 5/29/16.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 new poems brewery, eating slices of white bread and Jumping from the Mausoleum 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 new poems brewery, eating slices of white bread and Jumping from the Mausoleum 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera).

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “brewery” from Scars Publications’ cc&d Jan./June 2016 collection book Clouds over he Moon as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/4/16.

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

See YouTube video 12/11/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “brewery”, then reading her poem “In The Air” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera & given a Threshold filter).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “brewery” from Scars’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” @ Circle brewery as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/31/16 (filmed in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “brewery”, and “Just Desperation”, then her haiku poem “rush”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” live 1/26/20 during the multi-person intro to “Spoken and Heard” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “brewery”, and “Just Desperation”, then her haiku poem “rush”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” live 1/26/20 during the multi-person intro to “Spoken and Heard” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer

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Watch the YouTube video (3:11) 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, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus.

Bring Her Back

See YouTube video read live10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

See Complete feature video of Kuypers reading poems (including this poem) live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Brittle (poem on on Twitter post and instagram)<

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “For Far Too Many Years” (which was also read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), plus “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “Brittle”, “Meningitis, Six Feet Under”, and “Bamboo”, while she was guest-hosting the “Open Mic Showcase 8/17/19 at Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “For Far Too Many Years” (which was also read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), plus “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “Brittle”, “Meningitis, Six Feet Under”, and “Bamboo”, while she was guest-hosting the “Open Mic Showcase 8/17/19 at Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (this video was filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, & given a Posterize filter).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & given a Hue Cycling filter, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a iPhone 10 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Broke the Reflection

See YouTube video (1:09) live 05/11/11 at “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” Chicago open mic

Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach

See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11

See YouTube video read live 12/04/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

See YouTube video of the intro to the 12/04/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading the poems Broke the Reflection, Gonna Break, and Mechanical Soldiers

See YouTube video read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mike in Chicago (from the Samsung)

See YouTube video read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mike in Chicago (from the Sony)

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary)

Watch the 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)

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; Hue C.).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; Sepia).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; Thr.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect” (written 12/6, on and for the day of the 1893 birth of English poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, which is also the 1746 birth of Scottish poet and songwriter Lady Grizel Bailli), “Europa and Ganymede Calling” (written 12/6, on and for the 2017 date of plate tectonics discovery on Jupiter’s moon Europa), “Other Side” and “Broke the Reflection” (for the 12/7 date Pearl Harbor was attacked), “Letter 09/16/06” (for 12/7, Letter Writing Day), “Childhood Memories Six” (for 12/8, the 1980 date John Lennon was assassinated), and “Ornaments from my Childhood” (written 12/7, on and for National Christmas Tree Day), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Other Side”, “Broke the Reflection”, “Letter 09/16/06”, “Childhood Memories Six”, and “Ornaments from my Childhood”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Bromine (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak)

See YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung)

See the Samsung video upside-down, all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb

Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Bromine live 6/26/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Bromine live 6/26/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/26/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — and reading this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, and “Indium” from her 2013 Poetry Bomb at the Lincoln Park Zoo, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, and “Indium” from her 2013 Poetry Bomb at the Lincoln Park Zoo, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v335 7/23 cc&d issue/book “Personal Archaeology” poems “Fear for Their Safety” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Bromine” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Bromine’s Assault” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Bromine’s Assault poem on Facebook and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day) read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, “Our Demons can Mark Us” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day) read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, “Our Demons can Mark Us” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & Sepia Toned, and posted on Facebook; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Germanium: We Would Never Survive”, “Arsenic is the Cure”, “Selenium Mixing”, “Bromine’s Assault”, “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions”, “Rubidium leads the way to a new state”, “Strontium and 3-D time”, “Strontium Save Me”, “Strontium shows Schrödinger’s cat”, “Yttrium, Seeping”, and “Zirconium Brilliance” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Germanium: We Would Never Survive”, “Arsenic is the Cure”, “Selenium Mixing”, “Bromine’s Assault”, “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions”, “Rubidium leads the way to a new state”, “Strontium and 3-D time”, “Strontium Save Me”, “Strontium shows Schrödinger’s cat”, “Yttrium, Seeping”, and “Zirconium Brilliance” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v335 7/23 cc&d issue/book “Personal Archaeology” poems “Fear for Their Safety” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Bromine” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Bromine’s Assault” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” which will appear in the August 2019 release of the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her 2019 poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (written 6/24 for Celebration of the Senses Day), and then sings the song “a Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square” during the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” which will appear in the August 2019 release of the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her 2019 poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (written 6/24 for Celebration of the Senses Day), and then sings the song “a Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square” during the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera).

See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).

Hear SoundCloud audio of the full “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”. During her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33). Then she read “Escape to Peace” (starting ~39:41) and “Vase of Tulips” (started ~41:52) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. Later in the interview she read her poems “Elaborate Exaltation” (started ~45:51), “Listen to Life” (started ~46:18), the haiku “nature I” (started ~46:44), “after” (started ~47:12), and “quarrel” (started ~47:31), from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”.

Hear SoundCloud audio of all of the poem readings from “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl”, “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “Escape to Peace”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Listen to Life”, “nature I”, “after”, & “quarrel” in 2 books.

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces”, written 6/24/19, on Celebration of the Senses Day and read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” on 6/24/20 (on this event date), as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the v184 6/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, then her poem “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 6/6/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the v184 6/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, then her poem “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 6/6/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Brother, and Sister, and Father of Mine

bruised (haiku, on Twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku bruised in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku bruised in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (S crop glow)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem bruised live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem bruised live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2017 Book Release Reading 8/2/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Ancient Colors” poems “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks”, “Step”, “jumped”, “behind”, “gone”, “bruised” and “oceans” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2017 Book Release Reading 8/2/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Ancient Colors” poems “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks”, “Step”, “jumped”, “behind”, “gone”, “bruised” and “oceans” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Random Thoughts” haiku poems “oceans”, “gone”, “bruised”, “out there”, “judge”, “escape”, “ever get it back”, “opposite”, and “need”, and then her poems “Oh, She Was a Woman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Random Thoughts” haiku poems “oceans”, “gone”, “bruised”, “out there”, “judge”, “escape”, “ever get it back”, “opposite”, and “need”, and then her poems “Oh, She Was a Woman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

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 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 T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).

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.

Building Houses out of Pallets

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Building Houses out of Pallets in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Building Houses out of Pallets in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Build Your Own Cross

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

See YouTube video of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 07/27/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poem “You Will”, “Marine Rifle Poem” “Build Your Own Cross”, and “Waiting for a Sign”

See YouTube video (:36) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of the intro at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 12/07/10 with this poem and other poems read live

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build Your Own Cross in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build your Own Cross (from the book She’s an Open Book) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build your Own Cross (from the book She’s an Open Book) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Life and Death and Everything Between” poems “Violations tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross” from the cc&d 11-12/18 book “Wait Until Dark”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Life and Death and Everything Between” poems “Violations tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross” from the cc&d 11-12/18 book “Wait Until Dark”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her haiku “fought”, then her Life and Death and everything between poems “Violations Tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her haiku “fought”, then her Life and Death and everything between poems “Violations Tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Burn It In
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
2012 translation of Burn It In - in Slovak: “Vypá‎ to”
[in French] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

See YouTube video (5:03, of just the poem) live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99

See YouTube video 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)

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Listen to the live reading from the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03

See YouTube video (5:18) live at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07

Listen to this live at “Live at Cafe Aloha” (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show), or order this - or any track - from the CD “Live at Cafe Aloha” through Amazon or iTunes.

Never before seen on social media, see the YouTube video (:56) of Janet Kuypers reading parts of her poem “Burn It In” during her “Beach Poets 8/14/05 feature” at Chicago’s Loyola Beach (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Never before seen on social media, see the Archive video of Janet Kuypers sharing her poetry and prose during her “Beach Poets 8/14/05 feature” at Chicago’s Loyola Beach, w/ her poems “Burn It In” (part), “David”, “I Dreamt About You Last Night”, “A Child In The Park”, “Freedom Just Past The Fence”, and “In The Air” (part), plus her prose pieces “Age” and “Clay” (this video is from the Internet Archive; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video (5:22) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos os Islands

See YouTube video (5:13) recorded of dancing Boobies (birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos os Islands)

See YouTube video (2:22) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06

see the entire performance at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive

Listen to the full show read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06.

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

See YouTube video (4:32, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

See YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

See YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Burn It In” 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery open mic she hosted in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Burn It In” 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery open mic she hosted in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 2/27/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Burn It In in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Burn It In in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 2; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Burn It In in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 1; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Burn It In in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 2; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burn It In” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, and “Observations Nine and Six” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 10/13/18 @ “For to Famous” at Austin’s The Buzz Mill (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burn It In” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, and “Observations Nine and Six” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 10/13/18 @ “For to Famous” at Austin’s The Buzz Mill (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Burn It In (reaching the end edit)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/4/17 show “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” @ “Expressions” in Austin, performing her poems “Barbie”, “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera w/ HA!Man of South Africa music and her projected rotating art display; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/4/17 show “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” @ “Expressions” in Austin, performing her poems “Barbie”, “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera w/ HA!Man of South Africa music and her projected rotating art display; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View the 11/4/17 show poems in the free PDF file chapbook “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” containing the poems “Barbie”, “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”.

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie”, and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie”, and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie” and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose ““Type A” Person”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie” and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose ““Type A” Person”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burn it In (reading the end edit)”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “The Truth is Out There”, “Walking Home from School”, “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield”, and “One Summer Traveled” from the from the cyberwit.net 2021 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” 3/3/21, during the usual 1:00-3:00 PM CST time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Burn it In (reading the end edit)” from the cyberwit.net 2021 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” 3/3/21, during the usual 1:00-3:00 PM CST time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoem   #janetkuypersbookreading

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 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 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

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 YouTube video of the first half hour 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, and “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Thank you again to WZRD Chicago 88.3 FM host Trudy Leong!!! #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this YouTube video of the first half hour 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, and “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Thank you again Trudy Leong! #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Burn Through Me

Listen: (:36) to this recording from Fusion, which is now available for sale at iTunes.

See YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen” (written 10/20, on and for the National Day on Writing), “Moonlight”” (for 10/20, Observe the Moon night), “Polymath in the Making” (written 10/21, on and for Celebration of the Mind Day), “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi” (written 10/22, on and for Clean Up the Earth Day), “Kept Religion out of Politics” (written 10/28 on and for the Separation of Church and State Day), “Enticing Whirling Darkness” (written 10/27, on and for the birthdate of Sylvia Plath), “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail” (written 10/29, on and for the 1808 birthday of Roman astronomer Caterina Scarpellini), “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” (written 10/29, on and for the birthday in 1825 of the last Queen of Romania, Marie Alexandra Victoria), “Jails Almost Broke Me” (written 10/30, on and for the the 1885 birthdate of poet Ezra Pound), “This Halloween” (for Halloween), and “Who I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)” (written 10/31, on Halloween) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/27/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Moonlight”, “Polymath in the Making”, “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi”, “Kept Religion out of Politics”, “Enticing Whirling Darkness”, “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”, “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness”, “Jails Almost Broke Me”, “This Halloween”, and “Who I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/27/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ a Posterize filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Moonlight”, “Polymath in the Making”, “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi”, “Kept Religion out of Politics”, “Enticing Whirling Darkness”, “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”, “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness”, “Jails Almost Broke Me”, “This Halloween”, and “Who I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/27/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series(filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ a Threshold filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Moonlight”, “Polymath in the Making”, “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi”, “Kept Religion out of Politics”, “Enticing Whirling Darkness”, “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”, “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness”, “Jails Almost Broke Me”, “This Halloween”, and “Who I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/27/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this live video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Noble Cause” from the Scars Publications 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia”, then her poem “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside”, then her poem “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21b Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” 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). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Noble Cause” from the Scars Publications 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia”, then her poem “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside”, then her poem “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21b Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Noble Cause” from the Scars Publications 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia”, then her poem “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside”, then her poem “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21b Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Noble Cause” from the Scars Publications 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia”, then her poem “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside”, then her poem “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21b Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Burning Building
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

See YouTube video live at Cafe Aloha 03/12/02

Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CDetc. ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc 1 ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) now available directly through amazon!

Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set that can be ordered any time at iTunes.

See video read live 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha from the Internet Archive You can laos listen to this live recording as a (low quality) Macintosh .aif file, a (low quality) Linux .au file, an mp3 file, a (low quality) wav file or even as a real audio (.ra) file, performed live at Cafe Aloha 03/12/02.

Watch the YouTube video (1:39) live, Mercury Cafe, Chicago 11/30/07

See YouTube video (2:10) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 8/14/97

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading Present and Past and Burning Building at the open mike 3/28/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/19/17 of her reading her poems “x-raying metal under my skin”, “Burning Building” and “What Women Want” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/19/17 of her reading her poems “x-raying metal under my skin”, “Burning Building” and “What Women Want” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v343 3/24 cc&d issue/book “Clear Lake” poems “Burning Building” (+ showing show image), “Mixing Metaphors” (+ showing show image), & “Timing is Everything” to start her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Samsung S9 camera & GLITCH; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Others Kill for Us”, “Burning Building (2019 Day of Silence edit)”, and her 2019 Instagram poem “Dance Among the Ashes” (then showing the Instagram image for it), live 6/15/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Others Kill for Us”, “Burning Building (2019 Day of Silence edit)”, and her 2019 Instagram poem “Dance Among the Ashes” (then showing the Instagram image for it), live 6/15/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poems “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Eat your vegetables, be a proper girl” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poems “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Eat your vegetables, be a proper girl” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix t56 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296 “Aesthetic” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296 “Aesthetic” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Just Read a Book”, “destroy”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, and “Exude more in Black” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Just Read a Book”, “destroy”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, and “Exude more in Black” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9).

But I Won’t

But It Is Cute

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

But These Pleasures
But You Know What I Mean

By Who I Don’t Know

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

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

See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

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