I’d Laugh More
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I’ll Push The Cart
  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’ll Push the Cart 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’ll Push the Cart 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera). |
imagination haiku on Instagram and Twitter
I’m A Record Now
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen  to this track from the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One, which can also be ordered at any time online through iTunes.
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Listen Live at the Cafe (as a bonus track from the 2004 Chicago Poetry Fest)... Or order any track off the CD Live at the Café through iTunes.
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 Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show |
 Or watch the FULL video from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show |
Listen to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.
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This is on the collection CD The Final. Get a copy for only $6.22. |
Watch this YouTube video (1:31) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD |
Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09 |
Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09 |
Order this iTunes track from the collection poetry music CD the Final ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:
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 See YouTube video from 3/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “I’m A Record Now” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video from 3/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “I’m A Record Now” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera). |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v219 5/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Book Idolatry” poems “Weren’t even Married” (+ 10/12/03 & 6/21/07 show images), “I’m a Record now” (+ 10/12/03 show image), & “(from) In the Air” which is also in the 2022 CyberWit Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”
(+ 6/17/03 show image) during her “Poetic License 5/5/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream as video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
I’m Always The One
I’m Always The One - in Hungarian
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
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I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well
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Listen to The DMJ Art Connection, off the CD The DMJ Art Connection Disc One You can also hear a different version of this off the CD Indian Flux |
Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34) |
Watch this YouTube video from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago |
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03
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Watch the YouTube video The poems (I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well and Death is a Dog, 4:11) at the Jesse Oaks Lake County Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic (n. of Chicago) on 05/24/07 |
Watch this YouTube video (2:10) live at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07 The above YouTube video can also be seen at TAGGEDblinkx is also a location for the above YouTube video< |
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Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09 |
Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09 |
Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out |
 Watch this YouTube video 3/5/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out |
Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State |
Watch this YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece |
See YouTube video Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11 |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poetry feature “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)” at Trunk Fest, live 5/28/11, where she performed her poems “the Burning”, “Death Takes Many Forms”, “Keep Them Apart”, “one by one, the beech trees fell”, her short prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Keep Driving”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow. |
 
Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’m Not Sick, but I’m Not Well (from the book Fragments) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’m Not Sick, but I’m Not Well (from the book Fragments) in Chicago 11/24/13 (Threshold filter) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago |
 See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well”, then sing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on acoustic guitar, then read her poem “People’s Lives Were at Stake”, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” to a live audience for National poetry Month (Panasonic Lumix T56). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well”, then sing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on acoustic guitar, then read her poem “People’s Lives Were at Stake”, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” to a live audience for National poetry Month (L T56, Edge Detection). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well”, then sing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on acoustic guitar, then read her poem “People’s Lives Were at Stake”, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” to a live audience for National poetry Month (L T56; Sepia Tone). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well”, then sing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on acoustic guitar, then read her poem “People’s Lives Were at Stake”, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” to a live audience for National poetry Month (L T56, Threshold). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, “Other Souls” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/24/18 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, “Other Souls” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/24/18 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Edge Detection).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, “Other Souls” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/24/18 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Hue Cycling filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, “Other Souls” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/24/18 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” outside the Bluebonnet beer co. during a Round Rock Homebrewers Guild meeting, for “The Café Gallery 3/30/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” aoutside the Bluebonnet beer co. during a Round Rock Homebrewers Guild meeting, for “The Café Gallery 3/30/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)
I’m Not Used To That
i’m really going this time
i’m sorry
I’m Sure We Killed It
See YouTube video (2:05) of this read 6/12/07 at the Café
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Watch this YouTube video of C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach |
See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11 |
See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much
 or read this poem, written by Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels, based on this poem (written 10/29/08), called Honoring Your Choices |
I’m Tired
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/24/09 |
i’ve played this game
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem i’ve played this game in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus |
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS POEM |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Your Little China Doll” and “I’ve Played this Game” from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading, then her poem “Tall Man” from her 2014 Poetry Bomb poetry feature “Attacking with Poetry”, all read from her poetry book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, live at “Poetry Aloud” 1/19/19 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Your Little China Doll” and “I’ve Played this Game” from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading, then her poem “Tall Man” from her 2014 Poetry Bomb poetry feature “Attacking with Poetry”, all read from her poetry book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, at “Poetry Aloud” 1/19/19 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone). |
I’ve Done That, So Have You
Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08 |
I Am The Woman Who Loves Pain
Watch the YouTube video from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago |
 Or see the full “Stop” show including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive |
Watch the YouTube video of a 10 minute portion of the 09/10/02 poetry show Stop, includeing this piece |
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Listen live from the 03/03/02 CD & the Chicago 09/10/02 performance art show Stop. Look. Listen. |
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something |
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Listen or live tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
see the entire performance of How Do I Get There? 02/15/05 in Chicago live, via the Internet Archive |
Listen: (1:23) to this recording from Fusion Or order any track from the CD Fusion off of iTunes... |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v218 4/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Unbridgeable 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, Linkedin, 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, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
I Blow Bubbles
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 |
i can hear
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
in two different locations
I Cannot Love
Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video from camera #1 of Janet Kuypers’ show “Disenfranchised Doggerel” at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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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, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature
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Watch this YouTube video (:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09) |
i do think of you
I Don’t Care
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
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Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video from camera #1 of Janet Kuypers’ show “Disenfranchised Doggerel” at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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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, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature
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I Don’t Want To
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio, or order ANY track from this 2 CD set Scars Presents WXRD Radio any time from Amazon...
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Listen: (1:02) to this recording from Fusion, or order this track - or any track - off the CD Fusion through iTunes. |
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Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09 |
Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09 |
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 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 (this video was filmed from a Sony camera). |
I Dreamt About You Last Night
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
Listen to this live  atLive at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
Never before seen on social media, see the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” (1:51) during her “Beach Poets 8/14/05 feature” at Chicago’s Loyola Beach (video on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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Never before seen on social media, see the Archive video of Janet Kuypers sharing her poetry and prose during her “Beach Poets 8/14/05 feature” at Chicago’s Loyola Beach, including her poems “Burn It In” (part), “David”, “I Dreamt About You Last Night”, “A Child In The Park”, “Freedom Just Past The Fence”, and “In The Air” (part), plus her prose pieces “Age” and “Clay” (this video is from the Internet Archive and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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Listen to this track performed live and included in the 3 CD set Live at the Cafe, now available for sale online at iTunes.
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Watch this YouTube video (4:07) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
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Listen to this w/ The DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion |
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night”with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading a number of her poems & prose including this writing (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, accompanying opera vocals from Suzanne Hettinger, and guitar from John) live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram
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Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung Camera |
Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading PART of this poem (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poems “Touching Cobalt” and PART of the poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/24/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” |
See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a cappella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped & saturated).
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See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a capella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped/saturated w/ sci-fi filter).
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See YouTube video 6/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Death is a Dog, and What I Want to Know and I Dreamt About You Last Night at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video 6/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Death is a Dog, and What I Want to Know and I Dreamt About You Last Night at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera). |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v227 1/25 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Brutal Architecture” book poems “David” (+ showing 8/14/05 image & 6/21/07 “uncorrect” image), “I Dreamt About You Last Night” (+ showing 8/14/05 image),
& “Freedom Just Past The Fence” (+ showing /8/14/05 image & 3/21/17 images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 1/5/25 Global Open Mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera and given a Green Screen filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
I Have Learned
Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Robert, I Have Learned and Amber Beads 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Robert, I Have Learned and Amber Beads 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Road not Taken”, “Where Does the Love Go?”, and “I Have Learned” from her poetry show “Seeing a Psychiatrist”, all from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v2” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Road not Taken”, “Where Does the Love Go?”, and “I Have Learned” from her poetry show “Seeing a Psychiatrist”, all from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v2” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
i have to explain
I Have My Dreams
I Have My Dreams - in Braille
I Have My Dreams - in Greek
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 Watch this YouTube video (:19) at a pool 06/16/07 in Denver, Colorado |
Watch this YouTube video llive at the Café in Chicago 05/18/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poems Anyone Good Enough & I Have My Dreams, & Issues, at the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 05/18/10 |
Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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Listen: (:29) to this recording from Fusion And order this track, or ANY track, off the cd Fusion available at iTunes. |
I Just Waited
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Watch the YouTube video (1:24) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets |
I Knew I Had To
Watch this YouTube video (1:19) live w/ music 09/07/10 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing at Phyllis’ Musical Inn in Chicago, w/ John Yotko |
See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video of her reading her 2 poems “I Knew I Had To” and “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes” 10/22/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Cps). |
See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video of her reading her 2 poems “I Knew I Had To” and “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes” 10/22/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony). |
I Know It’s Not Going To Happen
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen: (2:44) to this recording from Fusion |
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I Listen
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Watch this YouTube video live at Mercury Cafe in Chicago 08/28/09 |
i look at the letters again
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/09/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the “line drawing” filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/09/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (recorded with a metallic filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/09/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the Pastel Sketch filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/09/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of the introduction at the Café in Chicago, plus the 2 poems Weeping Willow and I Look at the Letters Again |
I Must Believe
I Must Believe - in Braille
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I Must Continue
Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2) |
See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own
Watch this YouTube video Live at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago 05/18/09 |
Watch this YouTube video of part 1 of the poem live at Waiting4the Busin Chicago 05/18/09 |
Watch this YouTube video of part 2 of the poem live at Waiting4the Busin Chicago 05/18/09 |
Watch this YouTube video of part 2 of the poem live at Waiting4the Busin Chicago 05/18/09 |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/21/17 reading her poems “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, “This Isn’t Fair”, and “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/21/17 reading her poems “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, “This Isn’t Fair”, and “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Sony camera). |
I never took a life
until I took my own,
part II, “the martyr”
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” for Victims of Violence Wholly/Holy Day on April 4th, “Red Matter” for First Contact Day on April 5th, verse II ‘the Martyr’ of “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own, part II: “the martyr”” for the day Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 5th, and “Quote Unquote Holiday for us Beer Drinkers” for National Beer day on April 7th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” for Victims of Violence Wholly/Holy Day on April 4th, “Red Matter” for First Contact Day on April 5th, verse II ‘the Martyr’ of “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own, part II: “the martyr”” for the day Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 5th, and “Quote Unquote Holiday for us Beer Drinkers” for National Beer day on April 7th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
In These Times
Watch this YouTube video of her reading this poem 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Sony), for Chicago Calling |
Watch this YouTube video of her reading this poem 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling |
Watch this YouTube video of her poem readings 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling |
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
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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
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready” from her interview/journal/ poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “This Poem is About” poem “Feel Comfortable”, + her poem “In These Times” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (PLT56). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready” from her interview/journal/ poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “This Poem is About” poem “Feel Comfortable”, + her poem “In These Times” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (PL2500). |
i see more
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i see the scene
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Watch this YouTube video read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago |
Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure
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I Seem to Know Animals
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Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe 12/16/08, Chicago |
I Think About These Things
Watch this YouTube video original poem read backwards in New Orleans 12/22/08 |
Watch this YouTube video original poem read at a bookstore in New Orleans 12/22/08 (of course, with an Ayn Rand Objectivism nonfiction book in her hand...) |
I Wanna Be Like Jesus
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something |
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Listen to the CD recording from the 09/20/05 performance art show SIN (Scars Internet News) |
< Watch this YouTube video from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05 |
see the entire performance of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive |
I Want
Listen to this from the first Janet Kuypers performance art show Seeing Things Differently (8/14/97), or get ANY track from this CD release online from iTunes.
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Listen live to the 2nd Axing perform this at the open mic Sing Your Life, or order any track from the Sing Your Life CD release directly through iTunes.
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Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World |
Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World |
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 06/25/11 |
See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 06/25/11, with this writing |
Download the chapbook with this writing in Striking with Nature and Humanity
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See YouTube video from 5/27/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ex boyfriends became goldfish”, “I Want” and “Echo in my Mind” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Lumix camera). |
See YouTube video from 5/27/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ex boyfriends became goldfish”, “I Want” and “Echo in my Mind” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony camera). |
See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 5/28/17 reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, “I Want” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” with accompanying live music from Rich Xperience at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera). |
See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 5/28/17 reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, “I Want” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” with accompanying live music from Rich Xperience at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Sony camera). |
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
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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
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I Want” from her “Striking with nature and humanity” show, “Coquinas” from her “IPB: Impromptu Poetry on the Beach” show, and then she sang her song “Tight Rope Affair” with john on guitar from her “a Very Goth Beach Feature” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I Want” from her “Striking with nature and humanity” show, “Coquinas” from her “IPB: Impromptu Poetry on the Beach” show, and then she sang her song “Tight Rope Affair” with john on guitar from her “a Very Goth Beach Feature” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this vide owas filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia). |
I Want Love
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]
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Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection with vocals by Monica Fowler |
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Listen: (:57) to this recording from Fusion |
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Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe |
Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women |
Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women |
See Kuypers’ full show videowith 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) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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I Want More Than That
I Want More Than That - in Kannada
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
I Want To Get Out Of Here
I Wanted Pain
[in Dutch]
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux |
Watch this YouTube video1:09 live at the Cafe 03/13/07 |
Watch this YouTube video 1:32 from Constantpoetry.com |
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 10/5/22 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen |
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) 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 #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oriental” (+ showing its Chinese translation), “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere” (+ showing its Hindi translation), “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing its Dutch translation), “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing its Dutch translation), and “the Martyr and the Saint” (+ showing its Dutch translation) from the books “The Paths Less Traveled” and “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” for the 2/1/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram,
and Tumblr).
This YouTube video was also filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
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Ice Cream
See YouTube video
05/24/11 at the Café in Chicago (read from the ISBN# book the Window)
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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
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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
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from the plush horse stories - ice cream stain
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera |
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam |
Ice Cubes
Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09 |
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Watch this YouTube video read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago |
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Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure
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if i care to break it down
See YouTube video from 1/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “yearning to break free”), and “if i care to break it down” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video from 1/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “yearning to break free”), and “if i care to break it down” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (video filmed from a Sony camera). |
if i will have time
If She’s There
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem If She’s There 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem If She’s There 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cfs), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cps), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe. |
Ikebana
Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09 |
i’m really going this time
imprisoned / ignorance (haiku, on Twitter)
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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku imprisoned / ignorance in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku imprisoned / ignorance in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), of 14 poems (INCLUDING THIS HAIKU POEM) with background music |
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku imprisoned / ignorance (written in India) outside near a fence and a metal rail (recorded off I35 in Austin TX 8/19/15 (filmed on a Motorola phone camera) |
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku imprisoned / ignorance (written in India) outside near a fence and a metal rail (recorded off I35 in Austin TX 8/19/15 (filmed on a Motorola, w/ a Threshold filter) |
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku imprisoned / ignorance from Scars’ Down in the Dirt issue book the Intersection (Samsung) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her haiku “imprisoned / ignorance” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” poems “Death is a Dog” and “The one at Mardi Gras”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her haiku “imprisoned / ignorance” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” poems “Death is a Dog” and “The one at Mardi Gras”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “imprisoned / ignorance”, “control”, and “don’t”, and then her poem “Returning to Georgetown”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Accept Apart” 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
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “imprisoned / ignorance”, “control”, and “don’t”, and then her poem “Returning to Georgetown”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Accept Apart” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and given a Posterize filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
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from the plush horse stories - in a cardboard box
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch the YouTube video 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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Watch the YouTube video 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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See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam |
Dreams 12/22/08:
the Indescribable Infant
is it a fish? is it an animal? is it human?
Indium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
as well as Poetry Life & Times Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 (through paper.li)
Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak) |
Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung) |
See the Samsung video upside-down, all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb |
Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Indium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Indium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Edge Detection) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Threshold filter).
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See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, and “Indium” from her 2013 Poetry Bomb at the Lincoln Park Zoo, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, and “Indium” from her 2013 Poetry Bomb at the Lincoln Park Zoo, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry>/font>
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ also showing its “Farsi translation” of the poem) from the Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Running Out of Time” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), “Okay, it’s all about the Oxygen” + image from the v203 1/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Gravity of Imagination”(that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Indium” from the cc&d September-December 2022 issue issue collection book “Unable To Escape It” (that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 1/1/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This was also released as a Facebook live video stream, which was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem |
Indium, trying to get through poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
In Love I Abide
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Listen to this with the Second Axing |
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Listen to this track performed live and included in the 3 CD set Live at the Cafe, now available for sale online at iTunes.
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This is on the CD Stop. Look. Listen to the Music, with songs from Mom’s Favorite Vase, Weeds & Flowers & The Second Axing for $6.22. |
Listen to this original song from the 90s band Mom’s Favorite Vase, new available at iTunes. |
Watch video from the show A Night of Firsts, 06/22/04 from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video 3:48, from the 06/22/04 show A Night of Firsts |
Watch this YouTube video (2:51) at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07 |
(2:33)Watch this YouTube video of PART of the song live, the Galapagos Islands 12/24/07 to people from South America, the U.S., Canada, & Austria (performed on a boat) |
Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt in Nashville 12/20/08 |
See YouTube video 7/18/10 of Janet Kuypers singing her song “In Love I Abide” with John on guitar (first recorded by MFV) live at Chicago’s Beach Poets open mic. |
Watch this YouTube video live at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 6/29/11. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/24/16 at the Austin music open mic at B.B. Rover’s, covering Hank Williams’ I’m Free at Last, the Smiths’ London (changing the town in the song to Houston), & singing her MFV song In Love I Abide (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic at B.B. Rover’s, covering George Michael’s Waiting (reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, & singing her MFV song In Love I Abide (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 performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic at B.B. Rover’s, covering George Michael’s Waiting (reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, & singing her MFV song In Love I Abide (this video was filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (Sony; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (Canon PS; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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View or download the free PDF chapbook New Beginning, Firsts and the Future with “a New Life” “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, & “In Love I Abide”. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Paul Simon’s song “Slip Sliding Away”, Sinead O’Connor’s song “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet Kuypers’ song “In Love I Abide”, George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, and the Eurythmics’ song “I Need You” with John on acoustic guitar 2/11/18 at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Paul Simon’s song “Slip Sliding Away”, Sinead O’Connor’s song “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet Kuypers’ song “In Love I Abide”, George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, and the Eurythmics’ song “I Need You” with John on acoustic guitar 2/11/18 at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock (Samsung S7; Edge Detection). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Paul Simon’s song “Slip Sliding Away”, Sinead O’Connor’s song “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet Kuypers’ song “In Love I Abide”, George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, and the Eurythmics’ song “I Need You” with John on acoustic guitar 2/11/18 at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock (Samsung S7; Posterize). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Paul Simon’s song “Slip Sliding Away”, Sinead O’Connor’s song “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet Kuypers’ song “In Love I Abide”, George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, and the Eurythmics’ song “I Need You” with John on acoustic guitar 2/11/18 at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock (Samsung S7; Threshold). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from a table; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from the bar; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask”, with ‘books’ for ‘bombs’ lyrics changes (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
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See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold filter.)
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See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize filter.)
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See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Edge Detection filter.)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “That Dress” from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”, then she read her poems “Sorry Flowers”, “on The California Streets”, and “Ways to Spend Your Money”, and then she sang her song “In Love I Abide” - all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then she read her poem “Only Voice He Could Hear” from the proof copy of the cc&d v284 23-year anniversary issue/book “Shining” to a live audience for National poetry Month (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “That Dress” from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”, then she read her poems “Sorry Flowers”, “on The California Streets”, and “Ways to Spend Your Money”, and then she sang her song “In Love I Abide” - all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then she read her poem “Only Voice He Could Hear” from the proof copy of the cc&d v284 23-year anniversary issue/book “Shining” to a live audience for National poetry Month (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate” and “Looking For A Worthy Adversary”, then sing her song “In Love I Abide” with John on acoustic guitar, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” at “Poetry Aloud” 5/12/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate” and “Looking For A Worthy Adversary”, then sing her song “In Love I Abide” with John on acoustic guitar, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” at “Poetry Aloud” 5/12/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Palladium, Ouro Podre” (#46, Pd), and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, before singing an altered chorus of her song “In Love I Abide” as the ending to her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (PL2500, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Palladium, Ouro Podre” (#46, Pd), and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, before singing an altered chorus of her song “In Love I Abide” as the ending to her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”(PL T56, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr). |
See YouTube video as Janet Kuypers sings the Depeche Mode song “One Caress”, then reads her poem “Thirteen Seconds” from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges” (a poem reflective of the book’s front cover image), then sings her song “In Love I Abide”, live 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed on a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video as Janet Kuypers sings the Depeche Mode song “One Caress”, then reads her poem “Thirteen Seconds” from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges” (a poem reflective of the book’s front cover image), then sings her song “In Love I Abide”, live 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
In The Air
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
Listen to this track from the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something, which is now available for sale online at iTunes.
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:
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Watch this YouTube video (2:27) at the Denver airport 06/17/07 in Denver, Colorado |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World |
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Watch this YouTube video of the most popular video Kuypers has ever released (1:54), 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World |
Watch the YouTube video (3:47) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
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Watch this YouTube video (6:54) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
listen to parts in the CD recording of In The Air from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears: in the mountains: off the CD Changing Gears, which is now available for sale online at iTunes. |
Watch the YouTube video (:30) the part about mountains, live 06/17/03, Changing Gears |
Watch the YouTube video (:34) the part referencing Fort Myers Florida, live 06/17/03, Changing Gears |
See the entire performance of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive |
| Listen to this live recording, performed at Cafe Aloha 04/23/02. |
Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women |
Watch this YouTube video (12/4/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women |
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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 |
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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) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems
progress,
extend,
falling,
civil,
and greatest,
then reading her poems
Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice),
On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman),
Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice),
Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem
In The Air with slightly altered wording, and
Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Sony camera; posted onFacebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems
progress,
extend,
falling,
civil,
and greatest,
then reading her poems
Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice),
On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman),
Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice),
Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem
In The Air with slightly altered wording, and
Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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Download the free show poems chapbook Obey 6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman!, Austin |
See YouTube video 12/11/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “brewery”, then reading her poem “In The Air” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video 12/11/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “brewery”, then reading her poem “In The Air” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera & given a Threshold filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Fiona Apple song “Criminal”, Ani DiFranco’s song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” and Janet Kuypers’ Mom’s Favorite Vase song “In Love I Abide” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Fiona Apple song “Criminal”, Ani DiFranco’s song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” and Janet Kuypers’ Mom’s Favorite Vase song “In Love I Abide” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Posterize). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Fiona Apple song “Criminal”, Ani DiFranco’s song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” and Janet Kuypers’ Mom’s Favorite Vase song “In Love I Abide” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Thresh.). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Fiona Apple song “Criminal”, Ani DiFranco’s song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” and Janet Kuypers’ Mom’s Favorite Vase song “In Love I Abide” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; E. Det.). |
In the Air (part 1, verse 1)
In The Room
In The Room - in Gujarti
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
In Their Homes or In the Streets
Inches Above the Ground
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 |
Infallible
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Listen to two different versions of this piece this is from the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux |
Watch this YouTube video (1:00, 06/11/07) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13 |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading a set of poems (“the Burning” and 3 near-death accident-related poems) live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13 |
Information Carries Weight
Ingrained In Your Head
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ingrained in Your Head 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ingrained in Your Head 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera). |
instead (haiku, on Twitter)
instead of feeling nervous
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video (5:57) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07 |
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See YouTube video 11/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “instead of feeling nervous” & “Kinds of Torture” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (on a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video 11/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “instead of feeling nervous” & “Kinds of Torture” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (on a Canon Power Shot camera). |
Internet Chainsaw Relationship
See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Internet Chainsaw Relationship”, “the Perils of Lovemaking” and “The Self-Knifing?” in the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Sony). |
See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Internet Chainsaw Relationship”, “the Perils of Lovemaking” and “The Self-Knifing?” in the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Lumix). |
Iodine (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak) |
Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung) |
See the Samsung video upside-down, all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb |
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Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Threshold filter).
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See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, and “Indium” from her 2013 Poetry Bomb at the Lincoln Park Zoo, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, and “Indium” from her 2013 Poetry Bomb at the Lincoln Park Zoo, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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Iodine on the X Files poem on Facebook and Twitter
Iridium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
Watch the YouTube video of this Kuypers reading the poem live 1#26/13 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon), with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (2011 Hotel music “the Ice is Melting”) This radio show reading was also in the “Sweet Home Chicago” podcast at Sundown Lounge (no. 311 2/22/13)
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Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video live 1/26/13 of Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poetry in “Periodic Prep for Radio Poetry” on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, read to music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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See YouTube video 1#26/13 of Kuypers reading 8 Periodic Table poems (including this poem) on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Samsung), with the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting playing |
Watch this YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloonat Noon |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s “Wayward Waltz of the Fractured Wind” (filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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View or download the free chapbook Poetry Saloon at Noon in the Poetry Saloon at Noon show 1/30/13 w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems “Osmium”, “Platinum”, “Iridium”, “Calcium”, “Chlorine”, “Arsenic”, “Zinc”, “Sulfur”, and “Silver”, performed in this show. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Alumium? Aluminium? Aluminum?” (bonus poem for element Al, #13), “Manganese” (Mn, #25), and “Iridium” (Ir, #77) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Alumium? Aluminium? Aluminum?” (bonus poem for element Al, #13), “Manganese” (Mn, #25), and “Iridium” (Ir, #77) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Iridium”, “Calcium”, and “Arsenic” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloonat Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Iridium”, “Calcium”, and “Arsenic” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloonat Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
Iridium blankets the earth
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
Iron (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla...
Watch this YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery |
Watch this YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery |
Watch this YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem) |
Watch this YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem) |
Download this poem in the free 11/21/12 “Periodic Poetry” chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
Download this poem in the free 11/21/12 “Lights on our Insides” chapbook (as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook) w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
Watch this YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/9/13 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing |
Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Promethium, Livermorium, & Lead, recorded from a Android camera) read live in Chicago 1/9/13 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem |
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the a href="http://scars.tv/dirt/dirt201nov22/Reaching_for_the_Stars" target="new">v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d “Unable To Escape It” book poems “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” that is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” and “Antimony” that is also in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”, then her “The Paths Less Traveled” book poems “Iron” (that is also in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” + image(that are also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” on 3/1/23 (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).
This was also a Facebook live video stream (which was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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Iron Bloodied Eyelids poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
Iron, Filtered In poem on Facebook and Twitter
Iron in my Eyes (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera) |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at The Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (with the HA!Man of South Africa background 2011 Hotel music, from “All Fall Down”) from her Periodic Table mini-feature “Beyond what we See” (from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago with this poem, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music “All Fall Down” in the background (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music in the background, of “All Fall Down” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Iron in my Eyes” 4/18/13 in her “In Homage” show for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (Canon camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Iron in my Eyes” 4/18/13 in her “In Homage” show for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Kuypers in her feature “In Homage” 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago, w/ her poems “Tin”, “Iron in my Eyes” and “Molybdenum” (video from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Edge Detection filter), which includes this poem. |
See YouTube video of Kuypers in her feature “In Homage” 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago, w/ her poems “Tin”, “Iron in my Eyes” and “Molybdenum” (video from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Watercolor filter), which includes this poem. |
See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Iron in my Eyes and Copper in the 3rd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (this video was filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Iron in my Eyes and Copper in the 3rd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (this video was filmed w/ a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Manganese” and “Cadmium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, then her poem “Iron in my Eyes” from her “In Homage” feature reading, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Manganese” and “Cadmium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, then her poem “Iron in my Eyes” from her “In Homage” feature reading, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Titanium for Spies”, “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle”, “Manganese Growing”, “Iron Bloodied Eyelids”, “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Copper in your Mouth”, and “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Titanium for Spies”, “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle”, “Chromium Shine”, “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, “Iron Bloodied Eyelids”, “Cobalt Goblins”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Copper in your Mouth”, and “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem |
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the a href="http://scars.tv/dirt/dirt201nov22/Reaching_for_the_Stars" target="new">v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/22 issue collection book “The Paths Less Traveled” poems “Iron in my Eyes” (+ also showing its online image for the poem that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers”, and “Outer Space and the Sound of Silence” to close her “Poetic License 3/5/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This video was also released as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
Iron Leaking out of Earth poem on Facebook and Twitter
Irony
Watch this YouTube video read live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa |
Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, performing this poem and more with video & music from musicians around the world
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Watch this Complete feature video of the FULL SHOW of most everyone live 10/04/11 at the Café for Chicago Calling, including Kuypers performing poetry with music & video
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 connectivity poems “Irony” and “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” 10/22/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 connectivity poems “Irony” and “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” 10/22/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Cps). |
Is it just me
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
Is To Blame For It
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Isn’t It Amazing
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc 1 ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:
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Watch this YouTube video Read by John Yotko live at Cafe Aloha 03/12/02 |
Watch this live video 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha read by John Yotko from the Internet Archive
You can laos listen to this live recording as a (low quality) |
Watch this YouTube video (2:15, 06/13/07) |
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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 T56 camera). |
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). |
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This poem (in English and in a Slovak translation) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
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Watch this YouTube video from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Isn’t That What It’s All About” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Isn’t That What It’s All About live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Things They Did to You”, “Isn’t That What it’s all About”, and “Left with a Hole” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Things They Did to You”, “Isn’t That What it’s all About”, and “Left with a Hole” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08 |
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Watch this YouTube video llive at the Café in Chicago 05/18/10 |
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Watch this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poems Anyone Good Enough & I Have My Dreams, & Issues, at the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 05/18/10 |
I started writing this poem when
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem I started writing this poem when from her “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem I started writing this poem when from her “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” 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
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See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knelt and Cried”, “Philosopher at the Blue Note” and “I Started Writing This Poem When” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Lumix). |
See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knelt and Cried”, “Philosopher at the Blue Note” and “I Started Writing This Poem When” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Sony). |
It’s Just Hard
It’s Just Not Right
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Just Not Right 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Just Not Right 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera). |
It’s Only The Tip
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
It’s Someone’s Job
Watch this YouTube video (1:44) live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video with the Edge Detection filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video with the Sepia Tone filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video with the Film Age (older) filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video with the Threshold filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
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See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life
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See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).
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it’s you
It Hurts in the Bones
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
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It Hurts in the Bones 2015 edit
See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of It Hurts in the Bones (2015 edit) (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of It Hurts in the Bones (2015 edit) (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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Download this poem along with all of the poems in the free chapbook “Journey” containing all of the poems read 3/28/15 at the Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago) |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v340 12/23 cc&d issue/book “Blackbirds, Lyrebirds, WeaverBirds” poems “Reduced To Now” (+ show image 1), “It Hurts in the Bones, 2015 edit” (+ show image ), &
“old school and high-tech monuments” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
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