Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

Gadolinium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
as well as Poetry Life & Times Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 (through paper.li)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Gadolinium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “stroking flute”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gadolinium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (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 poem Gadolinium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uncharted Land” from the cc&d June 2021 v310 28-year anniversary issue/paperback book “Falling”, then her poem “Every Heartbeat”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” at the beginning of 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 poem “Uncharted Land” from the cc&d June 2021 v310 28-year anniversary issue/paperback book “Falling”, then her poem “Every Heartbeat”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” at the beginning of 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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading set 2 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (#57 La), “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” (#058 Ce, in 141Ce), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (#59 Pr, in PrScO3), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (#60, Nd), “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (#61 Pm), “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” (#64 Gd), and “Terbium is out of this world” (#65 Tb) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading set 2 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (#57 La), “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” (#058 Ce, in 141Ce), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (#59 Pr, in PrScO3), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (#60, Nd), “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (#61 Pm), “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” (#64 Gd), and “Terbium is out of this world” (#65 Tb) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading set 2 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (#57 La), “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” (#058 Ce, in 141Ce), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (#59 Pr, in PrScO3), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (#60, Nd), “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (#61 Pm), “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” (#64 Gd), and “Terbium is out of this world” (#65 Tb) 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 2 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (#57 La), “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” (#058 Ce, in 141Ce), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (#59 Pr, in PrScO3), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (#60, Nd), “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (#61 Pm), “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” (#64 Gd), and “Terbium is out of this world” (#65 Tb) 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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Gallium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “azzuu”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

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

Download this poem in the free PDF file
Opening Act chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gallium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gallium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Gallium”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdo wn’s Over” 12/1/21 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 “Gallium Anticipation”, “Gallium”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdo wn’s Over” 12/1/21 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 & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Gallium Anticipation poem on Facebook and Twitter

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, and “Carbon Based Life Forms” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, and “Carbon Based Life Forms” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersinstagram

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, and “Carbon Based Life Forms” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed with a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, and “Carbon Based Life Forms” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

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 Publi cations 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 Publi cations 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

games
see this poem at morpo magazine

See YouTube video

05/24/11 at the Café in Chicago (read from the ISBN# book the Window)

See YouTube video of the intro to the 05/24/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2

See YouTube video (9:35) of Kuypers 05/24/11 at the Café reading her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2

Games We Play
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading poetry (including this poem) at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery 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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tum blr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

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 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 poem “Keeps Pounding Against Walls” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Walking Home from School” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Games we Play” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 (Panasonic Lumix T56).

Garret’s Lament

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading the poems Dreams 12/3/12 and Garret’s Lament 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/30/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poetry (including this poem)

Gary’s Blind Date

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

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

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

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Listen

Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set, or Click on the CD cover to order tracks from the entire 3 CD set of Live at the Café

Listen

or order by clicking on the CD cover from this EP from Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers, in pb&j

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06/21/10, Café Ballou (at Waiting4the Bus), Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gary’s Blind Date live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gary’s Blind Date live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/26/17 of her reading her poems “Unscathed”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams” and “Gary’s Blind Date” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/26/17 of her reading her poems “Unscathed”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams” and “Gary’s Blind Date” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date”, “Scratch the Surface”, and “Letting Ourselves Go” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, live 6/23/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date”, “Scratch the Surface”, and “Letting Ourselves Go” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, live 6/23/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date”, “Scratch the Surface”, and “Letting Ourselves Go” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, live 6/23/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold).

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).

Gas Stations and Gun Dealers

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

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

Watch the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Gas Stations and Gun Dealers” 05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”)

Watch this YouTube video
of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)

Gasoline

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Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

Watch this YouTube video
Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1)

This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2)

This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video
of the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John yotko music (on the Canon Camera)

Watch this YouTube video

of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera)

Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Canon Camera)

Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gasoline live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gasoline live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

G Block (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 G Block in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)

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

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

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

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Genealogically

Genesis One

See YouTube video live 4/14/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One” and “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, during “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 4/14/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One” and “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, during “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Face book Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (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 “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, in set 3 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, in set 3 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and

“Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testa ment” on 4/30/23 in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
You can also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

Genesis Two and Three

See YouTube video live 3/31/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Two and Three”, through “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (thisvideo was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 3/31/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Two and Three”, through “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video live 3/31/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Two and Three”, through “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (rom a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (P L T56 camera; Post.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opens the Way”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and Sin from Killing”, read from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, 1/11/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opens the Way”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and Sin from Killing”, read from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, 1/11/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” and “United We Wonder” from the Down in the Dirt 2/21 v180 book “Eclipsed” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/7/21” 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 #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” and “United We Wonder” from the Down in the Dirt 2/21 v180 book “Eclipsed” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Listen to Life”, “Xenon, Stranger than Strange”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (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 “Listen to Life”, “Xenon, Stranger than Strange”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/
Doomsday Prepper’s Take

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her Genesis poetry from the cc&d v293 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Coiled Cobra”, including her poems “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, then eventually her Veterans Day poem “Keep our Country and Save Ourselves”,all read live (interspersed with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her Genesis poetry from the cc&d v293 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Coiled Cobra”, including her poems “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, then eventually her Veterans Day poem “Keep our Country and Save Ourselves”,all read live (interspersed with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems &“Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (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 &“Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse /Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, and “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves” from the v293 “Coiled Cobra” section in the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” for The Café Gallery 9/1/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (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 “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, and “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves” from the v293 “Coiled Cobra” section in the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” for The Café Gallery 9/1/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Hue C.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her Genesis poetry from the cc&d v293 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Coiled Cobra”, including her poems “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, then eventually her Veterans Day poem “Keep our Country and Save Ourselves”,all read live (interspersed with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems &“Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her Genesis poetry from the cc&d v293 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Coiled Cobra”, including her poems “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, then eventually her Veterans Day poem “Keep our Country and Save Ourselves”,all read live (interspersed with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems &“Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse/Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, and “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d issue collection book “Imagery of Place”, as one of the readings in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Genesis Twenty-Two

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Twenty-Two”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Black & White filter).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Twenty-Two” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Dreams 2/3/19”, “Ending It with Alexa”, “Genesis Twenty-Two”, and “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 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 #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Dreams 2/3/19”, “Ending It with Alexa”, “Genesis Twenty-Two”, and “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 8/3/22 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 Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Twenty-Two”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “Genesis Thirty-Seven”,

“Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, and “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testa ment” outside at the remains of the pool of the Branch Davidian compound near the 30-year anniversary of the Waco siege for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

You can also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.
You can also enjoy this as a Facebook video filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Genesis Twenty-Three

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Twenty-Three” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Twenty-Three”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew” from the v168 “Aurora” section of the Down in the Dirt February-April 2020 issue collection book “Founda tions” 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 “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew” from the v168 “Aurora” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 issue collection book “Founda tions” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “ ever since my childhood”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Know Completeness”, “unsung”, “Magnesium Burn”, and “Everyone Will React” from the Scars Publi cations flash fiction and art collection book “2020 in a Flash” (released that day) for The Café Gallery 11/24/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “ ever since my childhood”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Know Completeness”, “unsung”, “Magnesium Burn”, and “Everyone Will React” from the Scars Publi cations flash fiction and art collection book “2020 in a Flash” (released that day) for The Café Gallery 11/24/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Twenty-Two”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “Genesis Thirty-Seven”,

You can also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Genesis Twenty-Eight

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “the 2020 flash fi ction date book” writing (with some writing from her show “Death Comes in Threes”), “Genesis 28”, “In every car accident, there are actually three crashes”, “knees”, “Fences and Straight Jackets”, “Wrapping up the Harness”, “Elvira Doe”, “Every Step”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, and “Poem About This” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “the 2020 flash fi ction date book” writing (with some writing from her show “Death Comes in Threes”), “Genesis 28”, “In every car accident, there are actually three crashes”, “knees”, “Fences and Straight Jackets”, “Wrapping up the Harness”, “Elvira Doe”, “Every Step”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, and “Poem About This” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Twenty-Two”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “Genesis Thirty-Seven”,

You can also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Genesis Thirty-Seven

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Thirty-Seven” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Posterize filter).

See this YouTube video (posted 4/13/22) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Thirty-Seven” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/13/22 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 4/12/22) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Thirty-Seven” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/12/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 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 #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 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 and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Twenty-Two”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “Genesis Thirty-Seven”,

You can also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Genesis Forty and Forty-One

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Sepia Tone filter).

See this YouTube video (posted 4/20/22, a Wednesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/20/22 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 4/19/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/19/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Twenty-Two”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “Genesis Thirty-Seven”,

You can also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Posterize filter).

See this YouTube video (posted 4/27/22, a Wednesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/27/22 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 4/26/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/26/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Twenty-Two”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “Genesis Thirty-Seven”,

You can also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Genesis Forty-Four

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Four” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the

CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testa ment” outside at the remains of the pool of the Branch Davidian compound near the 30-year anniversary of the Waco siege for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram,

and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this Facebook video post filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Genesis Forty-Five

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See this YouTube video (posted 5/4/22, a Wednesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/4/22 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 5/3/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/3/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on <Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the

Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram,

Genesis Forty-Nine

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the

Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram,

Genuinely Tired Of Looking

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

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

Germanium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

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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)

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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v336 8/23 cc&d issue/book “Stolen Stars” poems “Evidence as Testament” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Germanium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 8/6/23 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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also released as a Facebook live video stream (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Germanium: We Would Never Survive 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).

Get His Product to Town

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of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Get His Product to Town live in her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 (Cfs200, video flipped and saturated)

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

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

Get It Over With

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from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

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

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

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

Get Me Out of this Cage

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art show {Stripped} live 6/7/05

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of {Stripped} live 6/7/05 in Chicago, via the Internet Archive

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or order by clicking on the CD cover from this EP from Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers, in pb&j

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

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

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

Get The Idea

Getaway

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Getting Quite Good at it

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Live at the Cafe,
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of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

Watch this YouTube video

of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera)

Getting Used To Something New

ghosts (haiku, on Twitter and Instagram)

See YouTube video from 4/22/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing” and her haiku “ghosts”, then reading a portion of her short story “Crazy” at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she read her Down in the Dirt 11/17 book “Mon sters” haiku poems “knife”, “easy”, and “ghosts”, and her poems “Ernesto” “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “Verge on Meditation” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she read her Down in the Dirt 11/17 book “Mon sters” haiku poems “knife”, “easy”, and “ghosts”, and her poems “Ernesto” “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “Verge on Meditation” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (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 at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Violation”, “Exterior”, “Eminence”, “Earth”, “Lost”, “Jumped”, “Uphill”, “Essence”, “Upside-Down”, “Enjoy”, “Ghosts”, “You Do What You’re Told”, “Control”, “Enemy”, “Quarrel”, “Xeric”, “Oceans”, “Escape (2017 haiku)”, and “Aflame”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 8/13/19 outside Grant Park with the Millennium Bean in the background in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Violation”, “Exterior”, “Eminence”, “Earth”, “Lost”, “Jumped”, “Uphill”, “Essence”, “Upside-Down”, “Enjoy”, “Ghosts”, “You Do What You’re Told”, “Control”, “Enemy”, “Quarrel”, “Xeric”, “Oceans”, “Escape (2017 haiku)”, and “Aflame”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 8/13/19 outside Grant Park with the Millennium Bean in the background in Chicago (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

Gift of Motherhood one

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

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of the open mic intro at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10 & the poems More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, and Hiding Vices

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of all of the religion-inspired poems read live at the Café on 03/30/10: More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, Hiding Vices, Gift of Motherhood 1, and Gift of Motherhood 2 (with the “line drawing” filter)

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

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

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

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

Gift of Motherhood two

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

See YouTube video 3/5/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Scars 1997”, “Gift of Motherhood II”, and “Original Snowbirds” live at “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 3/5/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Scars 1997”, “Gift of Motherhood II”, and “Original Snowbirds” live at “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v344 4/24 cc&d issue/book “Idle Hands” poems “Quiet as a Painting”, “Gift of Motherhood (two)” (+ showing show image), & “the Page” (+ showing show images 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8) to start her

“Poetic License 4/7/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Gin

Given A Warning Early On

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Gives Up the Fight

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Glacial Ice Haiku / extreme Sestina variation on Instagram and Twitter

See YouTube video 2/23/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces” and “Glacial Ice”, hosting “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, 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

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today” and “Glacial Ice” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” 5/27/21 at Austin Poetry Society’s “New World Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today” and “Glacial Ice” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” 5/27/21 at Austin Poetry Society’s “New World 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

Glomming off the Wrestling World

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

Goblins on Top of the Bus

God Eyes
see this poem at ChicagoPoetry.com

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(6:16) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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(3:53) Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

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of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) w/ background musc from the the HA!Man of South Africa

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) w/ background musc from the the HA!Man of South Africa

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” 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). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”

from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Gods want their life to end

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Elixirs of the gods”, “Gods want their life to end”, and “Justice” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that are also slated to appear in the 2023 CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”) on 11/2/22 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; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Elixirs of the gods”, “Gods want their life to end”, and “Justice” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that are also slated to appear in the 2023 CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”) on 11/2/22 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). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poem “Gods want their life to end” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that are also slated to appear in the 2023 CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”), then her new poem “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution” during her “Poetic License 11/6/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poem “Gods want their life to end” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that are also slated to appear in the 2023 CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”), then her new poem “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution” during her “Poetic License 11/6/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “The Paths Less Traveled” book poems “Elixirs of the gods”, “Gods want their life to end”, and “Justice” (all also slated for section 2 of the CyberWit.net 2023 book “Testament”), and closing with her poem “middle eastern man in front of me” on 3/1/23 (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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also released as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

God Will Save Me

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SIN (Scars Internet News)

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

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

Going Nowhere

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/28/09

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers preforming her entire Chicago 2/28/09 Mercury Cafe show “(Give me 5 Minutes)”, including her reading her poems “Canned Condolences”, “Ten Minutes”, “Going Nowhere” and “Shame on Me” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Going To A Rock Concert

Gold (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
as well as Poetry Life & Times Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 (through paper.li)

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 Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Carbon” (C, #6), “Cadmium” (Cd, #48), and “Gold” (Au, #79) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Carbon” (C, #6), “Cadmium” (Cd, #48), and “Gold” (Au, #79) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Gold”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Vanadium” from the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Ta ble Poetry” book poems “Barium” (which is also in the book “Wand erer”, + showing 11/21/12 show images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5) & “Gold” (which is also in the book “Book Id olatry”, + 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, Link ed in, 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, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Gold for the foolish at heart
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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 Publi cations 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 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 Publi cations 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 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 Publi cations 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 Publi cations 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 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

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

golfing with George Eastman

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

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

gone (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 gone live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

Download this poem included in the free PDF file chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
of poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio.

See Vine video
9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers’ haiku gone live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon)

See Janet Kuypers’ Vine video of her reading her haiku gone from cc&d’s v264 July/August 2016 issue/book Being Real as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/6/16 at NXNW (Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “gone” from Scars Publications’ Jul./Dec. 2016 cc&d Issue book “After the Blues” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 1/14/17 @ Circle Brewing Company (in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

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’ 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 (Sony).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the Scars book “On a Rainy Day” her poems “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species” and “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph”, plus her haiku poems “census”, “gone”, and “enjoy” 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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the Scars book “On a Rainy Day” her poems “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species” and “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph”, plus her haiku poems “census”, “gone”, and “enjoy” 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

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 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, 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 T56 camera).

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.

Gonna Break

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

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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

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Good Escape (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the house camera), including this poem

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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Part of my Pain” her poems “Good Escape”, “In These Times”, “Part of my Pain”, “Now That You Got Me”, “Ever Since you Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Push Your Button”, “How People Interpret my Words”, and “Observer’s Love Poem” 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). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Part of my Pain” her poems “Good Escape”, “In These Times”, “Part of my Pain”, “Now That You Got Me”, “Ever Since you Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Push Your Button”, “How People Interpret my Words”, and “Observer’s Love Poem” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her Scars Publications the 2019 literary date book review poem “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, then her poem “Precariously Balance” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her “This is a Poem About” poetry “Quiet for a While”, “Under Your Total Control”, “Hollow for so Long Already”, “Push Your Button”, and “Good Escape”, read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (PL T56).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 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 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 “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 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 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 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 #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Good Things Have Happened to Me Too

Gossip 1

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Gossip 2

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Goth Girl Photographer (twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Goth Girl Photographer (C, from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Goth Girl Photographer (S, read from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

Got on the Road Again

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

See this YouTube video of the first third of the Janet Kuypers Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 in Logan Square, with her poems “Keep Them Apart”, “Only For One Night”, “Got on the Road Again”, “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, and “Drinking Their Life Away” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 6/4/12

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Got on the Road Again” in Nashville TNin the Tag Team feature reading

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

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Keep Them Apart”, “Only For One Night”, and “Got on the Road Again”, all read from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Gotten To That Part

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

Gouge Out Their Eyes (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the house camera

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (C fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon PS)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cfs), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cps), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Gouge Out Their Eyes” within her “This is a Poem About” chapbook and read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Eliminating the Endangered Species List” (written on National Panda Day) and “Kind of Like a City” at “Recycled Reads” in Austin 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Grab The Other’s Neck
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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“UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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Grains of Sand

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

grandmother charged with murder

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Grandmother Charged with Murder” and “One Summer Traveled” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “(Less Than) Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

grandmother charged with murder 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 #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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w/ poems read 6/20/15 at 10 Shades of Chocolate show in Chicago

greatest (haiku, on Twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku greatest live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku greatest live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Sony camera; posted onFacebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem greatest from the cc&d magazine v265 book the Blind Eye 10/8/16 (filmed from a Samsung S7).

See YouTube video from 10/23/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem “greatest” from the cc&d book “the Blind Eye” live at Austin’s open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Thom’s intro to Austin’s open mic Kick Butt Poetry, with Janet Kuypers reading her poems “greatest” and “opening” from the cc&d book “the Blind Eye” live 10/23/16 (w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku greatest 12/3/16 as a JKPoetryVine video in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v139 9/10 2016 book “the Relic, the Effort, the Yell”.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku greatest from Scars Publications’ Jul./Dec. 2016 cc&d Issue book “After the Blues” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 1/14/17 @ B.B. Rover’s (Austin Texas, w/ a Samsung Galaxy S7).

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 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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.

Grinning from Ear to Ear

groove (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” WITH THIS HAIKU READING live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “groove” from Down in the Dirt’s v138 July/August 2016 issue/book Suicidal Birds as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/10/16 (Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “groove” from Scars’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 1/1/17 (filmed in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “groove” from Scars Publications’ Jul./Dec. 2016 Down in the Dirt Issue book “Edible Red” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 1/15/17 (in Austin Texas, from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

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 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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.

group themselves together

Guantanamo Bay (twitter-length poem)

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

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

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Twitterati” her poems “Poverty in America”, “Oklahoma water-surfing”, “Zach makes me Think about these Things”, “Mechanical Soldiers”, “Fingers Black”, “You Cannot Burn Me”, “Opening Our Own Doors”, “Guantanamo Bay”, “Even if the Pope Claims It”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “From Words to Wars”, “Money Became an Abstract”, “Where does the Love Go”, “Spent”, and “Cast in Stone” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

guard

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Sea sons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Sea sons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See 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).

guide (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video of poet R. Gibbons reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku guide live 6/2/14 in Chicago

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

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

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

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

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku guide from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “guide” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/24/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

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 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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.

Guilt (Based on a 1994 short story)

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 6/25/11

See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 6/25/11, with this writing

Download the chapbook with this writing in Striking with Nature and Humanity

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/14/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiver with no Home” and “Guilt” 9//16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiver with no Home” and “Guilt” 9/24/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (video filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me” (originally performed in the IPB show), “Ruminating” (originally performed in the “Celebrating with Song” show), “Guilt” and “Dreams Turned Into Nightmares” (originally performed in the Evanston “Striking with Nature and Humanity” show), all read 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).

guzzling drug cocktails with champagne

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

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