Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

Had A Point
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Hafnium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Hafnium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Hafnium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (S)

Hafnium attacks
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Hafnium attacks” (#72, Hf) on the roof of the Mohawk outdoor amphitheater right before the KMFDM industrial concert in Austin, TX 10/2/22 (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; linked on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Hafnium attacks” (#72, Hf) on the roof of the Mohawk outdoor amphitheater right before the KMFDM industrial concert in Austin, TX 10/2/22 (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; linked on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Haiku (poet) ((haiku, on twitter and Instagram))

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (Canon psSX700) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (from a Sony) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/22/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earth was Alive and Dying” and “Haiku (poet)” at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (from a Lumix camera).

See YouTube video from 4/22/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Earth was Alive and Dying” and “Haiku (poet)” at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 6/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem “Haiku (poet)” and walking off the stage during Thom’s intro @ Austin’s “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic (filmed on a Sony camera).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “Poem About This”, and her Twitter and Instagram haiku “haiku (poet)”, both from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the multi-person intro at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in part one of her feature. Then she read her poems “haiku (poet)”, “unbounded”, “oceans”, “eyes”, “Ends of the Earth”, “Xystus to Foundation”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she closes her feature with her poem “Verdant Green” (video filed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in part two her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poems “haiku (poet)”, “unbounded”, “oceans”, “eyes”, “Ends of the Earth”, “Xystus to Foundation”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she closes her feature with her poem “Verdant Green” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v212 10/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Beach at Night” poems “Killing the Survivor Bug” + image), “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (+ show image 1, and show images 1, 2, & 3), and “Haiku (poet)” (+ 8/13/19 show images 1 & 2, + 8/15/19 show images 1 & 2, + poem image) during her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994
Published in Deep South (1996, New Zealand)

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live, 18 Years of Beach Poets
08/31/08, Chicago

See YouTube video (3:00) live 09/18/10 at Vittorio Carli’s Pilsen open mic at Cafe Mestizo

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

hand-grenades, chainsaws and fireworks (oh my)

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

Hanging For Justice

Happy New Year, Janet

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Happy New Year, Janet” (with guitar by both John and Janet, fashioned from “Waiting (reprise)” by George Michael) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10 (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square) (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing the first third of her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10, with Janet and John also playing background music throughout the show (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square), which included her poems “Have You Ever Had”, “Happy New Year, Janet” and “Helping Men in Public Places” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’s Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Hard as a Rock

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/24/09

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

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(studio session 03/16/09)

hard enough anymore

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Hard Enough Anymore live 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Hard Enough Anymore live 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic a3/12/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — including reading this poem

Hard Of Hearing

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

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

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).

Harder To Burn

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Hartman and Saper, Corp.

Hasn’t Happened Yet
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

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

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

Hassium: a beautiful day
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

have a friend in me

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from the poems about mom - have a party
This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in the Starite Cafe

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

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video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam

Have No Backbone
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(1:39) Live at Mercury Cafe,
live in Chicago 11/30/07

Have To Ask
Have To Ask - in Bengali
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Have You Ever Had

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Have You Ever Had” (with Janet and John on guitar playing “The First Noel”) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10 (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square); this video also includes intro talk from her show (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Have You Ever Had, Understanding what’s Crazy and I Blow Bubbles at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Have You Ever Had, Understanding what’s Crazy and I Blow Bubbles at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (this video was filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “More than we Should have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor show, her poem “Have you Ever Had” from her “new year’s unplugged show, then her poem“Writing Your Name” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, live 9/8/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Have You Ever Had” originally performed in her “new year’s unplugged” show and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “Queasy Feeling” (written on National Sword Swallowing Day), live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls” (+ live show images one and two), and “Have You Ever Had” (+ live show images one and two) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls” (+ live show images one and two), and “Have You Ever Had” (+ live show images one and two) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, and “Spit Me Out” from the v322 6/22 cc&d 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, and “Spit Me Out” from the v322 6/22 cc&d 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” 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 #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” from section 2 of the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” from section 2 of the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

heaviness (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem heaviness 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” (CONTAINING THIS POEM) 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 Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku heaviness from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “heaviness” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./June 2016 issue collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/12/16 (Austin; Samsung Galaxy S7).

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “heaviness” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/28/16 (filmed at Carino’s Italian in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “heaviness” from Scars’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” @ l’estelles bar as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/31/16 (filmed 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 + more (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 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).

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.

Helium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

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of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See this YouTube video (posted 8/10/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Helium Addict” and “Helium rain is no laughing matter”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Helium” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/24/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 8/9/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Helium Addict” and “Helium rain is no laughing matter”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Helium” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/24/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Helium Addict” and “Helium rain is no laughing matter”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Helium” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (that also appear in the Janet Kuypers poetry books “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” and “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on

Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera was also released with a Hue Cycling, and it was also released on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Helium Addict poem on Facebook and Twitter

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

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen laced with Pi/π”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is”, “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”, “Helium Addict”, “Helium Rising”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Boron’s Birth”, and “Boron nitride stretching” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w#&047; Threshold filter), including this poem

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

See YouTube video

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

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (w/ a Canon Power Shot).

Helium rain is no laughing matter
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Helium Rising poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Lithium Desperation”, and “Helium Rising” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 7/4/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Lithium Desperation”, and “Helium Rising” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 7/4/21” 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 “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Helium Rising”, and “Versatile Females in Athletics” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 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 from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Helium Rising”, and “Versatile Females in Athletics” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 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 time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

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

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

he makes me think about these things

See YouTube video

02/10/08, the day it was written

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poem he makes me think about these things (Canon fs200) live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the mid-August 2009 v199.9 issue of cc&d magazine

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poem he makes me think about these things (Canon Power Shot) live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the mid-August 2009 v199.9 issue of cc&d magazine

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 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

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 from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

He Told Me His Dreams One
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video
Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09

See another YouTube video
Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09

Watch the full show “One Acts”
(from camera #1) live 7/6/09
This film is from the Internet Archive
(this video appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Watch the full show of One Acts (7/5/09, camera @#035;2).
(this video appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Listen

to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Listen

to this from the CD release
from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

the poetry collection audio CD “Torture & Triumph”

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD Torture & Triumph ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track:

from Chaots in Motion
(a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

CD:

Listen

to this track
from the DMJ Art Connection

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Walking With You”, “Watching You”,
“He Told Me His Dreams 1”, and “He Told Me His Dreams 9” from her book “Chapter 38 v1” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 1-2/19 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

He Told Me His Dreams Two
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

He Told Me His Dreams Three
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video

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

He Told Me His Dreams Four
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

Order this iTunes track:

from Chaots in Motion
(a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

CD:

Listen

to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Listen

to this from the CD release
from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 4” (1:10) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Watch this YouTube video (1:11) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 4” from the television screen broadcast during her 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “He Told Me His Dreams 4” & “The Dream” & her prose “A Dream About Murder” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 1-2/19 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

He Told Me His Dreams Five
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

Listen to a live track

off the CD and
performance art show Dreams (02/03/04)

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 5” (:44) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video (:43) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 5” the television screen broadcast during her 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v220 6/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Finding Refuge” poems “Realistic Dreams” (+ showing show image), “He Told me his Dreams V” (+ showing

show images 1 & 2), & “The Dream” (+ showing show images 1, 2, 3, & 4) during her “Poetic License 6/2/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

He Told Me His Dreams Six
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video

live at Mercury Cafe in Chicago 08/28/09

See YouTube video

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 2/24/18 reading her poems “He Told Me His Dreams 6”, “Dreams 03/19/04 Two”, and “Dreams 09/04/06, Original High School Pot” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Poetry Aloud”(Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

He Told Me His Dreams Seven
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video

live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/01/09

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 2/24/18 reading her poems “Dreams 12/22/08, the Indescribable Infant”, “He Told me His Dreams 7”, and “Dreams 09/17/06, Dad Talking to Me” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Poetry Aloud”< (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 2/24/18 reading her poems “Dreams 12/22/08, the Indescribable Infant”, “He Told me His Dreams 7”, and “Dreams 09/17/06, Dad Talking to Me” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

He Told Me His Dreams Eight
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video

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

He Told Me His Dreams Nine
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe

Order this iTunes track:

from Chaots in Motion
(a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

CD:

Listen to a live track

off the CD and
performance art show Dreams (02/03/04)

Listen

to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Listen

to this from the CD release
from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 9” (1:52) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See this YouTube video (1:50) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 9” from the television screen broadcast from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 1-2/19 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

He’s An Escapist (in haiku form)

See YouTube video

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

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

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (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’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she first read her haiku “He’s An Escapist” from the 4/18 book “War of Water” from cc&d, then she read her Down in the Dirt 3/18 book “My Name Is Nobody” haiku and short poems “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, before reading her longer poem “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, 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 at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku “He’s an Escapist”, then her poems “There I Sit”, “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, and “Tight Rope Affair” from her show “Energy with Poetry and Music” for “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 #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku “He’s an Escapist”, then her poems “There I Sit”, “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, and “Tight Rope Affair” from her show “Energy with Poetry and Music” for “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “escape”, “knowing”, and “He’s an Escapist”, and then her poem “The Way You Tease Me”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Still Life” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “escape”, “knowing”, and “He’s an Escapist”, and then her poem “The Way You Tease Me”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Still Life” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinstagram

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.

He’s Gone

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

Headache

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See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Headache”, “John (edited 1996)” and “Can’t Answer That One” from “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 1-2/19 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Helping Men in Public Places

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Helping Men in Public Places” (with rain stick by Janet and guitar by John, music fashioned from “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Stevie Ray Vaughn) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10, at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

/A> See YouTube video 12/11/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem &“Helping Men in Public Places” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See 12/11/16 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, and “Helping Men in Public Places” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’s the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’s the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 1-2/19 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism” (written 12/30, on and for the 1816 day the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley marries his 2nd wife Mary Godwin, the later author of “Frankenstein”), “Helping Men in Public Places” (written in honor of New Year’s Eve), and “Kiribati” (written 12/31, on and for the time when part of the world lost the day of New Year’s Eve) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/30/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, and “Kiribati” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/30/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Her Blood Is Evaporating

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See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Republican”, “Her Blood is Evaporating” and “Isn’t it Amazing” from “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Here is Me
here is me - in Korean

See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/04/11

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

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

Here It Goes Again

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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v218 4/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Unbridge able Canyon” poems “here it goes again” (+ show image), “i am the woman who loves pain” (+ show image), & “Love Has Tendrils” (+ show image)

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

Here’s Your Chance

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Hide from the World poem on twitter and Instagram and Tumblr

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

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296 “Aesthetic” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming a t Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296 “Aesthetic” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming a t Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, “filed under fiction”, “Everyone Will React”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Rushed” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “Vote Early, Read Often” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, “filed under fiction”, “Everyone Will React”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Rushed” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “Vote Early, Read Often” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers

Hiding Vices

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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 T56 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 2500 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

High Roller
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

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See YouTube video from 4/2/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets”, “High Roller” and “erasure poem: a Poetic History” at “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “High Roller”, “Watching You” and “The Deep End” from her book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, during the intro to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry “Spoken and Heard” 11/5/17 (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “High Roller” and “Orion” from her poetry show “How Do I Get There?”, then her poem “The Hand” from her chapbook “Chapter 18”, all from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v1” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

from the plush horse stories - His Mom’s Car
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(1:11) read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago

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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.

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

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(Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking) 07/05/11 at the Café

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hold (haiku, on twitter)

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See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku hold @ the Blue Sky’ls sign 6/8/15 (from looking for a worthy adversary — and looking for a worthy adversary (an extreme sestina variation)), for John (Motorola)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku hold, from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 Jul.-Dec. issues book the Intersection (11/28/15, Samsung, from Austin, Texas)

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video of her reading her haiku poems “escape”, “force” and “destroy”, then later reading her haiku poems “form” and “hold” 7/2/17 in the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (video filmed from a Sony camera).

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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Every Cage” (with her mini-poem “Labeled me Again” inside it) and her haiku poem “hold” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Moonlight” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/25/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “of his thirst” and “found haiku”, then her haiku poems “defenses”, “hold”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Spoken and Heard” 9/2/18 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 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 (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 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

holding hands (expanded, extreme sestina variation)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem holding hands in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Holding Hands live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Holding Hands live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video 1/22/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems One who Has Too Much & or my happiness, or my life, and Holding Hands (from her book Let me see you Stripped) at the Round Rock Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/22/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems One who Has Too Much & or my happiness, or my life, and Holding Hands (from her book Let me see you Stripped) at the Round Rock Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Let me See You Stripped” her poems “Like I was Never There”, “Scratch the Surface”, “You are a Force”, “You Repel Me”, and “Holding Hands”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Celebrates Together” first in her ”Akitu” poetry feature and read from her poetry book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, then her poem “Holding Hands (expanded extreme Sestina variation)” originally from cc&d v252 issue/book “Beyond the Gates” and read from her cc&d v5 poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poem “Learning how Love Lasts” (written on her parent’s wedding anniversary) 2/23/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Celebrates Together” first performed in her ”Akitu” poetry feature and read from her poetry book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, then her poem “Holding Hands (expanded extreme Sestina variation)” originally from cc&d v252 issue/book “Beyond the Gates” and read from her cc&d v5 poetry book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poem “Learning how Love Lasts” (written on her parent’s wedding anniversary) 2/23/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Holding My Hand
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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from the DMJ Art Connection

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2:42, with 2 poems read: Holding My Hand & The Burning (live @ the Cafe)

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(1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

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from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
off the CD an american portrait

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read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09

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read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09

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(available in a 2 CD set)>

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand

See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Holding My Hand in the second round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 2/25/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems, “Violations tested”, & “Holding My Hand”, + her prose “How Are You” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken & Heard (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/25/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems, “Violations tested”, & “Holding My Hand”, + her prose “How Are You” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken & Heard (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Private Lives 2005”, “Precinct Fourteen”, and “Holding my Hand” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, and “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Life boat” 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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, and “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Life boat” 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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, and “Key to a Storyline” from the Scars Publi cations 12/21 Down in the Dirt Life boat” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, and “Key to a Storyline” from the Scars Publi cations 12/21 Down in the Dirt v190 book “Life boat” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, and “Key to a Storyline” from the Scars Publi cations 12/21 Down in the Dirt Life boat” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, and “Key to a Storyline” from the Scars Publi cations 12/21 Down in the Dirt Life boat” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “People Forget Politics”, “Queens Rule”, “holding my hand”, and “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “People Forget Politics”, “Queens Rule”, “holding my hand”, and “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers

Holding My Skin Together
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange

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to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection
off the CD Chaos In Motion

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to this recording from Fusion

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live, the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of a compilation of Janet Kuypers’ poems Holding My Skin Together, Any Help At All, conversations three (a day of grieving), transcribing dreams one, the flashback, By Who I Don’t Know, and Did you know I was watching? in the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

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

Experimental Poetry: hole in the heart

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Holmium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Holmium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at MOST of her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”, “My Kind of Town”, “Communication 2012”, and “Holmium” from the v324 cc&d book “Into the Surf” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” her Periodic Table poems “Dysprosium” and “Holmium” (which also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Dysprosium-162; from superfluid to supersolid” (+ image), “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (+ image), and “Holmium, only one atom” (+ image) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Holmium, only one atom
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Holmium, only one atom” from the v324 8/22 cc&d issue/book “Into the Surf”, plus her poem “On a Sunday after a Sermon” to start her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Holmium, only one atom” from the v324 8/22 cc&d issue/book “Into the Surf”, plus her poem “On a Sunday after a Sermon” to start her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Hollow for so Long Already (from the “this poem is about...” series)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from Cousin BonesÙ “At the Plasma Clinic”) from the Samsung

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

See YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the Kodak)

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 (PL2500).

Hope And Taxes

How Could I Not Love You?
this poem is also available online at White Crow

See YouTube video
of this poem 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Canon camera

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “How Could I Not Love You?” in the third round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (filmed w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “How Could I Not Love You?E” in the third round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (Sony camera, Posterized).

How do I Explain It - dedicated to John Yotko
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99

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read live on her wedding day (May 7, 2000)

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from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago

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including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive

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from the 03/03/02 CD & the Chicago 09/10/02 performance art show “Stop. Look. Listen.”, or order ANT track from this CD from iTunes.

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(6:31) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

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to this recording from Fusion, or order this track - or any track - off the CD Fusion through iTunes.

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

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See YouTube video
live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

Enjoy the full video of the Beach Poets Death ‘n’ Rebirth 7/11/10 show from archive.org... (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

download the free chapbook Death ‘n’ Rebirth
with all of the writing in the live show

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Against My Will”, “I Don’t Want To” and “How do I Explain It” (read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) at Austin’s Recycled Reads Public Library book store 7/15/17 (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video from 4/29/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Coquinas” and “How Do I Explain It” from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” before the official beginning of the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video from 4/29/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Coquinas” and “How Do I Explain It” from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” before the official beginning of the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking For A Worthy Adversary” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from her show “the Cutting Room Floor”, then her poem “How Do I Explain It” from her show “Death & Rebirth”, all read from her poetry performance art show book “Chapter 48 (v1)” at “Recycled Reads” 11/17/18 (Panasonic Lumix T56; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking For A Worthy Adversary” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from her show “the Cutting Room Floor”, then her poem “How Do I Explain It” from her show “Death & Rebirth”, all read from her poetry performance art show book “Chapter 48 (v1)” at “Recycled Reads” 11/17/18 (Panasonic Lumix 2500; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Equality Manifesto” (written February 26th, for the anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “This you Don’t Hate” (originally in v101 cc&d) and “How Do I Explain It” (originally in the cc&d v105-116 book Rinse and Repeat), both read from her cc&d volume 2 poetry collection book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, live 2/22/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Equality Manifesto” (written February 26th, for the anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “This you Don’t Hate” (originally in v101 cc&d) and “How Do I Explain It” (originally in the cc&d v105-116 book Rinse and Repeat), both read from her cc&d volume 2 poetry collection book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, live 2/22/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

How Do I Get There?

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performance art show How Do I Get There?

How He Failed

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

See YouTube video
o 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

Read the Janet Kuypers twitter-length poem How He Failed in the Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem How He Failed from Scars Publications’ Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt titled the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/26/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Droid Maxx).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “How He Failed” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/26/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her poem “What Have I Won” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, “Drinking Their Life Away”, “Labeled Me Again”, “Prefer Things Soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit me Out”, and “Painted Buddhas”, and then she sang her song “My Love For You Will Stay the Same” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” (plus showing multiple live show images one, two, three, and four) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” (plus showing multiple live show images one, two, three, and four) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera & b&w Old Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

How I Imagine You

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Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).

How many times I’ve done it

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

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Read in studio live 03/23/09

How Much For Your Poem

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

How People Interpret My Words

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(studio session 03/16/09)

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Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing Keeping a Record of Going Too Far, Made Any Difference (to John’s song), and How People Interpret My Words 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).

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 this YouTube video (posted 5/24/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How People Interpret My Words”, “You’ve Already Paid for This”, and “Chicago” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/24/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 5/25/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How People Interpret My Words”, “You’ve Already Paid for This”, and “Chicago” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/25/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How People Interpret My Words”, “you’ve already paid for this”, “Chicago”, “that’s from the barbed wire”, and “the Cycle of Life” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How People Interpret My Words”, “you’ve already paid for this”, “Chicago”, “that’s from the barbed wire”, and “the Cycle of Life” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Mary’s Perspective on How that Whole Jesus thing Turned Out”, “letter, 4/14/95 one”, “letter, 4/14/95 two”, “letter, 4/14/95 three”, “letter, 4/19/95”, “Us Creative Types”, and “How People Interpret My Words” 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also released 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

How Real the Gulf Feels

How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height

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

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Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

How to do the Impossible

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

How to Please a Woman

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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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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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12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/21/11 live at the Café

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video of Kuypers reading her prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” and her poem “How to Please a Woman”

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of the intro to the 06/21/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How to Please a Woman” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and then her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

how to scramble an egg

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem How to Scramble an Egg live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem How to Scramble an Egg live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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how women look in men’s clothing

Human Construct of Time
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released

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of take 1 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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of take 2 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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of take 3 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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of take 4 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung)

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Human Construct of Time in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Human Construct of Time from v121 of Down in the Dirt magazine (titled “I Pull the Strings”) live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading the beginning of human construct of time from Scars Publications’ “need to know” 2015 literary date book 12/31/15 in Austin Texas.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ Book Release Reading 4/5/17 of cc&d book poetry in Austin’s National Poetry Month Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph” from the Statue, “I’m Really Going This Time” from Give What You Can, “Human Construct of Time” from Sea Drift, “White Knuckled” from Forever Bound, “Entire Town’s Baseball Team” from Suggested Torture, “Jabbed in an Open Nerve” from Idea, “Observing Theories of the Universe” from Idea, and “Entering the Lake of Fire” from Nighttime City (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ Book Release Reading 4/5/17 of cc&d book poetry in Austin’s National Poetry Month Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph” from the Statue, “I’m Really Going This Time” from Give What You Can, “Human Construct of Time” from Sea Drift, “White Knuckled” from Forever Bound, “Entire Town’s Baseball Team” from Suggested Torture, “Jabbed in an Open Nerve” from Idea, “Observing Theories of the Universe” from Idea, and “Entering the Lake of Fire” from Nighttime City (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera and given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading her poem “Human Construct of Time” from her “Part of my Pain” poetry book reading on stage during an AIPF performance at the 2017 Awesmic City Expo (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 “On the Bridge” from her 2018 full-color full-bleed photography (+ select poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, then her poem “Human Construct of Time” from the cc&d 6/11 v233 bonus anniversary book “Sea Drift”, then her poem “Shared Air” from the cc&d 7 & 8 2017 v264 book “Being Real” at “Spoken and Heard” 7/29/18 (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Elephants Carry the World” and “Human Construct of Time” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poem “Oxygen” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 8/25/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Human Construct of Time” and “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)” from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One By one, the Beech Trees Fell” and “Human Construct of Time” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, “The Moon” and “The State of the Nation” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, “yearning to break free” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, and “On a High Horse Like This” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, all read to “all fall down” Hotel Music from the HA!Man of South Africa, live at the final “Fort to Famous” open mic 10/22/18 @ Austin’s The Buzz Mill (this video was recorded from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), and “Zouk or Xibelani” from the v321 5/22 cc&d book “The New Normal”, then, after Zoom host John F. McMullen reads his poem in “The New Normal” Janet Kuypers followed it by reading her poem “Human Construct of Time” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” 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 #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), and “Zouk or Xibelani” from the v321 5/22 cc&d book “The New Normal”, then her poem “Human Construct of Time” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” 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 janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

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

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

humans (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video 9/27/14 of the Janet Kuypers “Partial Nudity” book release & interview on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her haiku and poetry “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “Eight People Outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “My New Grocery List”, “Couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “addiction”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting” (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

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

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “humans” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v140 issue book “the Bridge” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/16/16 (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).

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

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

Hunting for Life (two tweet poem, on twitter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Hunting for Life”, and then her poems “Feel Comfortable”, and “Under my Fingers” from her book “Give Me the News” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 (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 new poem “Hunting for Life”, and then her poems “Feel Comfortable”, and “Under my Fingers” from her book “Give Me the News” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 <(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Violations tested”, “Violations in the name of love”, and “Hunting for Life” from the Down in the Dirt 6/ v158) magazine issue/book “The Painting” 6/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Painting” poems “oil”, “Hunting for Life”, “knowing”, “Violations Tested”, and “Violations in the name of love”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Painting” poems “oil”, “Hunting for Life”, “knowing”, “Violations Tested”, and “Violations in the name of love”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (rom a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Hunt the Game (twitter-length poem)

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

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

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

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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 reading her poem Hunt the Game live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Hunt the Game live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

Experimental Poetry: hurt/cold

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hurt less then

See YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 05/11/10

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers poem Hurt Less Then & the Charlie Newman poem If You Could See, at the intro for the Chicago open mic @ the Café 05/11/10

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

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

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

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Hydrogen”, read live in Chicago at Poetry’s “Love Letter” 11/9/12 (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Hydrogen”, read live in Chicago at Poetry’s “Love Letter” 11/9/12 (video filmed from a phone camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” 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 #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Hydrogen Cyanide (a bonus poem 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)
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Hydrogen Cyanide live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Hydrogen Cyanide live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poem Hydrogen Cyanide live in Chicago 10/31/13 at her Poe-Pourri mini-feature (w/ an older film age filter)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Hydrogen Cyanide live in Chicago 10/31/13 at her Poe-Pourri mini-feature

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me” and “Hydrogen laced with Pi”, then her Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen Cyanide” and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (that also appear in the Janet Kuypers poetry books “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” and “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin,

Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This was also filmed fro a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & given a Hue Cycling, which was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Hydrogen Cyanide Escape poem on Facebook and Twitter

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

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

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 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

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

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 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 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

Hydrogen laced with Pi/π
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry poem “Hydrogen laced with Pi” (+ shared the image for the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 7/22 v197 issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags”, plus her new poems “Key, you see” and “Use Any Angle” during her “Poetic License global open mic 7/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a from a Samsung S9 camera with Old b&w Film and Sepia Tone filters; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry poem “Hydrogen laced with Pi” (+ shared the image for the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 7/22 v197 issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags”, plus her new poems “Key, you see” and “Use Any Angle” during her “Poetic License global open mic 7/3/22” she hosted in a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video (posted 7/6/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems ““Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”” and “Hydrogen laced with Pi”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Hydrogen Cyanide” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 7/5/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems ““Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me”” and “Hydrogen laced with Pi”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Hydrogen Cyanide” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Hydrogen: One Against One poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars Publi cations 2022 annual collection book “Running Ou t of Time” prose “Seven Miles” and “Brushes with Greatness”, and her poem “Hydrogen: One Against One” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Hydrogen: One On One poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me poem on Facebook and Twitter

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

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

Hydrogen to Nothing poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

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

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