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Karma and Lollipops

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; HC).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Post).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; ST).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in part one of her feature. Then she read her poems “haiku (poet)”, “unbounded”, “oceans”, “eyes”, “Ends of the Earth”, “Xystus to Foundation”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she closes her feature with her poem “Verdant Green” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in part one her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in part one her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video 8/17/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets” and “Karma and Lollipops” (that were all read during her “Journeys” feature at Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs)as she was guest-hosting the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 8/17/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets” and “Karma and Lollipops” (that were all read during her “Journeys” feature at Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs)as she was guest-hosting the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Order in the Chaos” from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), and her poem “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at Austinn’s Open Mic Showcase 9/21/19 at Recycles Reads (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Order in the Chaos” from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), and her poem “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at Austinn’s Open Mic Showcase 9/21/19 at Recycles Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 4/20 v170 Amazon book “Formative” poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” during the “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 Down in the Dirt 4/20 v170 Amazon book “Formative” poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” during the “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 T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, then “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, then “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/29/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/29/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Katie haiku on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing” (+ image), “Manganese can cure us all” (+ image), “One Would be Chosen”, “Katie” (+ image), and “Know they are Loved” (+ image 1 and image 2) from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book anthology “Stardust in Hand” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic >(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing” (+ image), “Manganese can cure us all” (+ image), “One Would be Chosen”, “Katie” (+ image), and “Know they are Loved” (+ image 1 and image 2) from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

keep (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

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

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku keep from Scars Publications’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 2/11/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku keep from Scars Publications’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 2/11/16 by a pool as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See YouTube video from 5/6/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “keep”, “escape”, “force”, “drowning”, “oceans” and “destroy” in her “Haiku on the Fly” reading (from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 5/6/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “keep”, “escape”, “force”, “drowning”, “oceans” and “destroy” in her “Haiku on the Fly” reading (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuyperspoetry

View or download the free PDF chapbook “Haiku on the Fly” of her poems “bruised”, “bruised”, “blood”, “choke”, “can’t get you”, “bear”, “defenses”, “feel”, “fit”, “keep”, “escape”, “force”, “drowning”, “oceans” and “destroy” (of haiku poems read from 5/6/17 in Austin).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

Keep Driving

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

See the video from YouTube read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web, live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Each Morning”, “Seasons 1998”, “Became a Jungle”, and “Keep Driving” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Each Morning”, “Seasons 1998”, “Became a Jungle”, and “Keep Driving” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Keep flying into Death

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Keep flying into Death in the first round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Keep flying into Death in the first round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 9/4/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Keep flying into Death, and Knew All Along (read with an altered voice) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 9/4/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Keep flying into Death, and Knew All Along (read with an altered voice) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Keep flying into Death” and “Excuses for Skipping Work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (L) reading her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Keep flying into Death” and “Excuses for Skipping Work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library.

Keeping a Record of Going Too Far (audition performance of a 2-poem adaptation)
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing from memory her poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far in her 4/5/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing from memory most of her poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far in her 4/5/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (iPhone)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing from memory her poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far in her 4/5/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (C, posterized)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far from memory live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far from memory live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Falling From the Sky” and “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” from her book “Revealed”, plus her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Falling From the Sky” and “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” from her book “Revealed”, plus her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video from 3/20/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” with a live jazz band for “Austin Rhythm Fire” at Southern Hospitality Catering & Dining (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/20/17 of Janet Kuypers’ 2017 Austin Rhythm Fire show, reading her poems “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”, “Yearning to Break Free”, “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Only an Observer” with live jazz music for “Austin Rhythm Fire” at Southern Hospitality Catering & Dining (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video on 3/20/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”, “Yearning to Break Free”, “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Only an Observer” with live jazz music for “Austin Rhythm Fire” at Southern Hospitality Catering & Dining (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, & given a Sepia Tone filter).

Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/20/17 of Janet Kuypers’ 2017 Austin Rhythm Fire show, reading her poems “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”, “Yearning to Break Free”, “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Only an Observer” with live jazz music for “Austin Rhythm Fire” at Southern Hospitality Catering & Dining (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video on 3/20/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”, “Yearning to Break Free”, “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Only an Observer” with live jazz music for “Austin Rhythm Fire” at Southern Hospitality Catering & Dining (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60, & given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video on 3/20/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”, “Yearning to Break Free”, “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Only an Observer” with live jazz music for “Austin Rhythm Fire” at Southern Hospitality Catering & Dining (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60, & given a Threshold filter).

View or download the free PDF chapbook “2017 Austin Rhythm Fire” with her poems “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”, “Yearning to Break Free”, “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Only an Observer” performed in her 3/20/17 show.

Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Blood” and “No Longer Pity You” (2 poems read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) and “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Blood” and “No Longer Pity You” (2 poems read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) and “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 8/5/17 show “Finding Peace” in Austin, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This”, w/ music from the HA!Man of South Africa’ “Wayward Waltz of the Skewed Mind”, + cricket sounds (Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 8/5/17 show “Finding Peace” in Austin, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This”, w/ music from the HA!Man of South Africa’ “Wayward Waltz of the Skewed Mind”, + cricket sounds (Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download all of the poems from the free chapbook “Finding Peace” of the poems she performed in her 8/5/17 “Finding Peace” poetry feature/show, including both classic and new poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2018 Book Release Reading 3/7/18, where she read her cc&d 3/18 book “The False Portrait” haiku poem “escape”, and then her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” and “On a High Horse Like This” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2018 Book Release Reading 3/7/18, where she read her cc&d 3/18 book “The False Portrait” haiku poem “escape”, and then her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” and “On a High Horse Like This” 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). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video from 8/1/18 of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This” from the book “Not a Trace” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (P L T56).

See YouTube video from 8/1/18 of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This” fvrom the book “Not a Trace” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (P L 2500).

keep looking for death

Watch this YouTube video live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

Watch this YouTube video of 3 death-related poems (including this one) live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

See YouTube video read live 11/27/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Keep Looking for Hope

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, “Keep Looking for Hope”, and “One With Wildlife” from the Down in the Dirt 9/20 v175 book “In the Singularity” 9/1/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, “Keep Looking for Hope”, and “One With Wildlife” from the Down in the Dirt 9/20 v175 book “In the Singularity” 9/1/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

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

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

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

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

Keep Looking Happy

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the first poem she ever wrote from memory, “Under the Sea”, then reading her poems “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), and “Violent Endeavour” (written for when the first space probe entered another planet’s atmosphere, the Soviet Venera 4 to Venus) from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading the first poem she ever wrote from memory, “Under the Sea”, then reading her poems “Effigy”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Violent Endeavour” from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11, the 1833 birthday of Robert G. Ingersoll), “Following in the Footsteps of Genius” (written 8/13, International Left Handers Day), “Once You Found Fame” (written 8/15, the 1914 date a servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin), “foretell” (written 8/18, the 1783 day the great meteor over Great Britain/British Isles; an unknown object that split into several pieces), “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day), “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” (for 8/24, Pluto Demoted Day), recorded 8/9/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay via the mp3 podcast (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting August event poetry within the book, including her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “foretell”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Effigy”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Violent Endeavour” from the v300 “Death Waits Outside” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Effigy”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Violent Endeavour” from the v300 “Death Waits Outside” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Rapeugees”, “Objectifiable 2021”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “from In the Air”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Extension of “Him””, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Vacuum of Space”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “the Measuring Scale”, and “Oh, She Was a Woman” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Keep me Sane

See YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 08/10/10

See YouTube video of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 08/10/10, w/ Kuypers reading this poem - and more

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

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

Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves

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

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

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, and and “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves” from the cc&d July-December 2018 issue collection book “Imagery of Place” live 8/5/20 in her Tuesday night “Builders Book Club” reading (this video was streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, and and “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves” from the cc&d July-December 2018 issue collection book “Imagery of Place” live 8/5/20 in her Tuesday night “Builders Book Club” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Six-Nine: an Apocalypse /Doomsday Prepper’s Take”, “Genesis Eleven: the Tower of Babble”, “Genesis Eighteen to Nineteen”, and “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves” from the v293 “Coiled Cobra” section in the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” for The Café Gallery 9/1/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Over Hazardous Land”, “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves”, “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR”, and “Our Waste in Space” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Over Hazardous Land” (written 11/10, on and for the Marine Corps birthday), “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves” (for Veterans Day11/11), “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” (written 11/11, on and for the 1922 birthday of Kurt Vonnegut), and “Our Waste in Space” (written 11/12, the anniversary of the 1984 date of the first attempt to salvage errant satellites from space) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Keeps Pounding Against Walls

Watch this YouTube video from the v217, 02/11 cc&d (& the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Life... from Nothing, live 02/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keeps Pounding Against Walls” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Walking Home from School” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Games we Play” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

Keeps Repeating poem on Instagram and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Cerium” originally read in her “Interview to Poetry through “Poetry Saloon at Noon” and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Explosive Energy”, and “Keeps Repeating” live 2/3/19 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 “Cerium” originally read in her “Interview to Poetry through “Poetry Saloon at Noon” and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Explosive Energy”, and “Keeps Repeating” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Plot and Wait”, “Ends of the Earth”, and “Keeps Repeating”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 9/2/19 at the 7' tall Mike Ditka bobblehead statue on display in Millennium Park in Chicago (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Plot and Wait”, “Ends of the Earth”, and “Keeps Repeating”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 9/2/19 at the 7' tall Mike Ditka bobblehead statue on display in Millennium Park in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading. #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Keeps Repeating”, and “Ethical Thing to Do” from the Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Regarding Utopia” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Keeps Repeating”, and “Ethical Thing to Do” Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Regarding Utopia” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keeps Repeating” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), read from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” on 7/24/22 during the intro to the Spoken and Heard open mic at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keeps Repeating” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), read from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” on 7/24/22 during the intro to the Spoken and Heard open mic at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights

Keep Them Apart

Watch the YouTube video Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

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

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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

Watch this YouTube video of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Keep Them Apart” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keep Them Apart” and “My Kind of Town” from her book “Part of my Pain”, then covers the Paul Simon song “Slip Sliding Away” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keep Them Apart” and “My Kind of Town” from her book “Part of my Pain”, then covers the Paul Simon song “Slip Sliding Away” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Keep Them Apart”, “Only For One Night”, and “Got on the Road Again”, all read from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)” live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Keep Them Apart”, “Only For One Night”, and “Got on the Road Again”, all read from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)” live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Keep Your Chin Up

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

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

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oh, the book is Better than the Movie” (written 11/1, on and for National Authors Day), “Keep Your Chin Up”” (written 11/3, on and for Cliché Day), “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics” (written 11/4, on and for King Tut Day, the day his tomb was discovered in 1922), “Queen of the Night Sky” (written 11/6, on and for the day credited with the 1572 observation of the supernova SN 1572 (Tycho’s Supernova/Tycho’s Nova), “Opened the Door for All” (written 11/7, on and for the 1867 birthday of Marie Curie), “Vessel to Spread the Word” (written 11/5, on and for the the birthday of American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox (11/5/1860-10/30/1919), “x-raying metal under my skin” (for 11/8, X-Ray Day / International Day of Radiology), “Otherwise Reigned Supreme” (written 11/8, on and for the birthday of American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox b11/5/1860, d10/30/1919), and “Just too High for Just one Man” (written 11/9, on on his 1934 birthday, for Carl Sagan Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 11/3/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series the night of the U.S. Presidential election (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oh, the book is Better than the Movie”, “Keep Your Chin Up”, “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics”, “Queen of the Night Sky”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Vessel to Spread the Word”, “x-raying metal under my skin”, “Otherwise Reigned Supreme”, and “Just too High for Just one Man” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 11/3/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keep Your Chin Up”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just so Others can Feel”, “Over Hazardous Land”, and “Ethical Thing to Do” from the cc&d November 2021 v315 issue/paperback book “Down and Inside” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keep Your Chin Up”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just so Others can Feel”, “Over Hazardous Land”, and “Ethical Thing to Do” from the cc&d November 2021 v315 issue/paperback book “Down and Inside” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keep Your Chin Up”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just so Others can Feel”, “Over Hazardous Lands”, and “Ethical Thing to Do” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book anthology “The World Outside” 3/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (video from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book anthology “The World Outside” 3/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (video from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Keep Yourself Occupied

Keeping Christmas Ornaments

Kept my Eye on You poem on Facebook & Twitter & Instagram & Tumblr

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook & Twitter & Instagram & Tumblr poem “Kept my Eye on You” (written 6/29 for National Camera Day) that will appear in her upcoming (August 2019) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her 2019 poem “Your Essence” (written that day, 6/30 for Asteroid Day) that will appear in her upcoming (August 2019) poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume One January-June)” at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook & Twitter & Instagram & Tumblr poem “Kept my Eye on You” (written 6/29 for National Camera Day) that will appear in her upcoming (August 2019) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her 2019 poem “Your Essence” (written that day, 6/30 for Asteroid Day) that will appear in her upcoming (August 2019) poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume One January-June)” at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video where John read an essay of his about fascism from a past issue of cc&d magazine online at http://scars.tv, then Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Order in the Chaos” and her Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr poem “Kept my Eye on You” (that was written 6/29 on National Camera Day, and then she showed her image of it), bot of which will appear in the August 2019 release of the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her 2019 poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (written 6/24 for Celebration of the Senses Day), and then sings with John the Depeche Mode song “The Bottom Line” with altered chorus words that were sung at her wedding, while hosting “Poetic License” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video where John read an essay of his about fascism from a past issue of cc&d magazine online at http://scars.tv, then Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Order in the Chaos” and her Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr poem “Kept my Eye on You” (that was written 6/29 on National Camera Day, and then she showed her image of it), bot of which will appear in the August 2019 release of the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her 2019 poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (written 6/24 for Celebration of the Senses Day), and then sings with John the Depeche Mode song “The Bottom Line” with altered chorus words that were sung at her wedding, while hosting “Poetic License” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram and twitter haiku “nature I”, and her Facebook & twitter & Instagram & Tumblr poem Kept my Eye on You” (written 6/29 for National Camera Day) for her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the multi-person intro at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (P L T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram and twitter haiku “nature I”, and her Facebook & twitter & Instagram & Tumblr poem Kept my Eye on You” (written 6/29 for National Camera Day) for her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the multi-person intro at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (P L T56; Sepia).

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

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

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

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

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

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

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the Down in the Dirt 6/20 book “Existential Threats” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the Down in the Dirt 6/20 book “Existential Threats” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the v172 “Existential Threats” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the v172 “Existential Threats section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed live and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Kept Religion out of Politics

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi” and “Kept Religion out of Politics” from the cc&d 10/20 v302 book “Wildflowers” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/4/2” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oscar the Grouch and the Recycle Nazi” and “Kept Religion out of Politics” from the cc&d 10/20 v302 book “Wildflowers” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/4/2” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Content with Inferior Men” (plus shared the Farsi translation of the poem), and her poem “Confident Women” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Selenium Mixing” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” to start her “Poetic License 10/2/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Content with Inferior Men” (plus shared the Farsi translation of the poem), and her poem “Confident Women” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Selenium Mixing” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” to start her “Poetic License 10/2/22 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “I wrote this in the dark” book poems “Sulfur, Suddenly” + sharing its image (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (which is also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”) and her poems “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution” “Eliminate All Rapists” “Revelation One: One-Four” “Revelation One: Five-Eight” and “Revelation One: Eleven” (which are also in the CyberWit 2023 book “Testament”) for the 5/3/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube” video on 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her “Testament” book poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights”, “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights”, portions of the poem “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights”, and as a bonus, the first poem she performed in her “Into the Spotlight” Chicago feature, “Evil of What They’ve Done” (this video was filmed live in studio from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube” video filmed live in studio from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This (now deleted) Facebook live video stream from this radio show interview was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr, loved on its Facebook page, liked from its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music” (as well as images 1, 2, 3, & 4), on its Instagram page, liked & commented on this on its LinkedIn page, & liked on its “ Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Austin Artmosphere Artists”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio Download all of the poems shared during this radio show interview in the free chapbook ““Testament” on WZRD”, w/ poems read on 8/12/23 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in her 2nd encore reading after her lead feature at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” and “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights

key (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “key” from Down in the Dirt’s v138 July/August 2016 issue/book Suicidal Birds as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/7/16 (Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & Sepia Tone filter); posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

keyboard (haiku on Instagram)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her poem “Outsider” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her Down in the Dirt v164 May-June 2019 issue/book “The Deep Woods” poem “Poetry on a Stick”, and her haiku poems “mirror”, “keyboard” and “our differences”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “Philosopher at the Blue Note”, “She was a Woman”, “Too Far”, and “Transcribing Dreams Three”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her poem “Outsider” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her Down in the Dirt v164 May-June 2019 issue/book “The Deep Woods” poem “Poetry on a Stick”, and her haiku poems “mirror”, “keyboard” and “our differences”, then her "“Seeing Things Differently” show poems “Philosopher at the Blue Note”, “She was a Woman”, “Too Far”, and “Transcribing Dreams Three”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “every step”, “knees”, “mirror”, and “keyboard” from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” during the multi-person intro 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “every step”, “knees”, “mirror”, and “keyboard” from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” during the multi-person intro 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 video w/ Sepia; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ominous Day”, “Being God”, “Poem About This”, “ends of the earth”, and (from) “Sometimes It’s Not”, then her prose “Imaging Friends and Loved ones”, then her poems “keyboard” and “quake”, and her prose “Scars”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Art House”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ominous Day”, “Being God”, “Poem About This”, “ends of the earth”, and (from) “Sometimes It’s Not”, then her prose “Imaging Friends and Loved ones”, then her poems “keyboard” and “quake”, and her prose “Scars”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Art House”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Key Imprisonment and Poetry

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” in the intro for starting off the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” in the intro for starting off the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” in the intro for starting off the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” in the intro for starting off the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” (written 7/4, on Independence Day), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/4/20 as a prequel teaser to the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism” and “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism” and “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 & Sepia; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism” and “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 & Threshold; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism” and “Key Imprisonment and Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video filmed fromn a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 & Hue Cycling; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & Sepia Tone; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera).

Key to a Storyline

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Key to a Storyline” (written 12/21, on and for National Short Story Day), “Overturn the Futility” (written 12/22, on and for the 1849 date Fyodor Dostoyevsky was supposed to be killed for crimes against the Czar), “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky” (written 12/23, on and for the 583 date the Maya queen Yohl Ik’nal is crowned ruler of Palenque), “Usual Conquest Style” (written 12/24, on and for the 1777 date that Kiritimati, AKA Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook), “Exploit the Island” (written 12/25, on and for the 1643 date that Christmas Island was discovered), “Lost Cross” (for Christmas), and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving” (for Christmas) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/23/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Key to a Storyline”, “Overturn the Futility”, “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, “Lost Cross”, and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/23/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queen, Decapitated”, “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky”, “Key to a Storyline”, and “Explorers at Heart” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Lifeboat” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queen, Decapitated”, “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky”, “Key to a Storyline”, and “Explorers at Heart” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Lifeboat” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

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

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

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Key to a Storyline” and “Explorers at Heart” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Key to a Storyline” and “Explorers at Heart” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Key To Survival (the poem of “J”)

Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

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

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive

this same track also is on Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set

Watch this YouTube video (5:34) from the Chicago performance art show {Stripped} live 6/7/05

See YouTube video 9/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Open Book”, “Key To Survival” and “Universe... Now In Color” live in downtown Austin’s one-time only reading at Brave New Books (Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 9/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Open Book”, “Key To Survival” and “Universe... Now In Color” live in downtown Austin’s one-time only reading at Brave New Books (filmed from a Sony camera).

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).

Key, you see

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Key, you see”, “Unborn Fetus does not equal Human Life”, and “Use Any Angle” from the 3/23 v331 cc&d book “Not There Anymore” (that are also slated for inclusion in the CyberWit.net 2023 book “Testament”) 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, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers during her lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights”, “It Really Is All About Choice”, “Key, you see”, “Jihad Against Free Choice”, “Only Considering Women’s Rights”, “Fear for Their Safety”, and “Expecting Rights after Losing Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry#janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights

Khrushchev

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Emphatic One” and “Khrushchev” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Emphatic One” and “Khrushchev” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “A Life Goes By”, then her poems “Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 four” and “Not Knowing” (all read for Grandparents Day), then her poems “You’ve Tucked us Women Away” (for the 9/8/1916 bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, after a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country motorcycle trip), “Khrushchev”(for the 9/13/1953 date Nikita Khrushchev was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), and “Explore your Imagination” (written 9/14, on Live Creative Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” during The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “A Life Goes By”, then her poems “Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 four”, “Not Knowing”, “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, “Khrushchev”, and “Explore your Imagination” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” during The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Khrushchev” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” for The Café Gallery 2/23/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoem   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Khrushchev” and “Emphatic One” as her closing poems from the “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” section of the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” for The Café Gallery 2/23/21 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

Kick Someone Out

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook “Time to Start the Show” of her poems “the Bathroom at he Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” performed in her 5/6/17 Austin show about hosting poetry open mics.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” her poems “our futures”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Kick Someone Out”, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls”, “Xerostomia”, and “You Were Meant” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” her poems “our futures”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Kick Someone Out”, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls”, “Xerostomia”, and “You Were Meant” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

kids wielding freedom and sin

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem kids wielding freedom and sin from the cc&d book Friction live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem kids wielding freedom and sin from the cc&d book Friction live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems The One At Mardi Gras & kids wielding freedom and sin; then her flash fiction A Dream About Murder at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems The One At Mardi Gras & kids wielding freedom and sin; then her flash fiction A Dream About Murder at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Sony).

kill (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “kill” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/25/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

Kill the Vermin

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Sony

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Canon

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ live piano from Gary), which includes this poem

Kill Yourself

Watch this YouTube video live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago

see the entire performance live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago with film from the Internet Archive

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Killing is our Only Option

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Killing is our Only Option” (written 9/3, pm the 1941 Holocaust date where Karl Fritzsch at the Auschwitz concentration camp first experimented with the use of Zyklon B), read on the event date, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” 9/3/20 (this video was streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers, living after a sub-freezing week-long arctic surge in Austin, TX with no power for 5 days and no water for 2 days, sharing her thoughts in this experience, then reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” 2/19/21 as a “the Café Gallery” & “Poetic License” bonus poetry reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers, living after a sub-freezing week-long arctic surge in Austin, TX with no power for 5 days and no water for 2 days, sharing her thoughts in this experience, then reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” 2/19/21 as a “the Café Gallery” & “Poetic License” bonus poetry reading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Neodymium” originally read in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Ends of the Earth”, and “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” live 2/3/19 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 “Neodymium” originally read in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Ends of the Earth”, and “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Old Stomping Grounds” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “dimensional shift” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Old Stomping Grounds” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “dimensional shift” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Rapeugees”, “Objectifiable 2021”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “from In the Air”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Extension of “Him””, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Vacuum of Space”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “the Measuring Scale”, and “Oh, She Was a Woman” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Killing the Survivor Bug

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook Exploring Spring of her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” performed in her 3/4/17 show.

See YouTube video from 3/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Canon psSX60).

See YouTube video from 3/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Canon psSX700).

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 Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 12/10/17 reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then singing the WHAM! song “Last Christmas” with John on guitar, then reading her poem “Killing the Survivor Bug” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed with a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 12/10/17 reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then singing the WHAM! song “Last Christmas” with John on guitar, then reading her poem “Killing the Survivor Bug” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed with a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v212 10/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Beach at Night” poems “Killing the Survivor Bug” + image), “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (+ show image 1, and show images 1, 2, & 3), and “Haiku (poet)” (+ 8/13/19 show images 1 & 2, + 8/15/19 show images 1 & 2, + poem image) during her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

killing the tired

Killing Women for Healing linked on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On Ashes” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and “Killing Women for Healing”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On Ashes” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and “Killing Women for Healing”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and then showed her Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, and “Killing Women for Healing” and then showed her Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, live 6/29/19 while she guest-hosted “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and then showed her Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, and “Killing Women for Healing” and then showed her Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr image from the poem, live 6/29/19 while she guest-hosted “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Killing Women for Healing” (written on and for Memorial Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, read on Memorial Day, 5/25/20, as a bonus May reading for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Killing Women for Healing” (written on and for Memorial Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, read on Memorial Day, 5/25/20, as a bonus for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171 “Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171 “Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Kill Us for Our Beliefs

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnificent Desolation”, “Kill Us for Our Beliefs”, and “Vaguely Crafted Verses” from the cc&d July 2020 book “So Much Moon” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnificent Desolation”, “Kill Us for Our Beliefs”, and “Vaguely Crafted Verses” from the cc&d July 2020 book “So Much Moon” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ Sepia, on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnificent Desolation”, “Kill Us for Our Beliefs”, and “Vaguely Crafted Verses” from the cc&d July 2020 book “So Much Moon” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 and Threshold; onFacebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnificent Desolation”, “Kill Us for Our Beliefs”, and “Vaguely Crafted Verses” from the cc&d July 2020 book “So Much Moon” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Kill Us for Our Beliefs” (written 7/7, on the day Joan of Arc was posthumous acquitted), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/7/20 (on this event date) as a prequel teaser to the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnificent Desolation” “Kill Us for Our Beliefs”, “Zoos, Big Brains and Opposable Thumbs”, “Vaguely Crafted Verses”, “Urine and Fireworks” “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Everyone Will React” from the v299 “So Much Moon” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnificent Desolation” “Kill Us for Our Beliefs” “Zoos, Big Brains and Opposable Thumbs”, “Vaguely Crafted Verses”, “Urine and Fireworks” “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Everyone Will React” from the v299 “So Much Moon” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Kill with Impunity

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Valkyrie attempts” (for the 10/14/1944 date of the suicide of Erwin Rommel) and “Kill with Impunity” (for the 10/7/1900 birthday of Heinrich Himmler) from the Down in the Dirt 10/20 v176 book “The End of the World” live 9/29/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Online (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Valkyrie attempts” and “Kill with Impunity” from the Down in the Dirt 10/20 v176 book “The End of the World” live 9/29/20 during the Spoken Word Paris / Spoken Word Online (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “guard” (written 9/26, on and for National Situational Awareness Day), then her poems “Vampires and Blood-Sucking Mosquitos Alike” (written 10/6, on and for Garlic Lover’s Day), “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” (for mid-October’s Astronomy Day), “Kill with Impunity” (written 10/7, on and for the 1900 birthday of Heinrich Himmler), “Octopi and Brains” and “Octopi Target McDonald’s” (for 10/8, World Octopus Day), “Because of Fire” (written 10/8, on and for the start of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, that lasted 2 days), “Judging the Chicago Seven” (written 10/9, on and for the day of the beginning of the 1969 trial against the Chicago Seven), and “‘the Robot Zombie Witch Girl’ revisited” (for 10/10, National Zombie Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/6/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “guard”, then her poems “Vampires and Blood-Sucking Mosquitos Alike”, “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Kill with Impunity”, “Octopi and Brains” and “Octopi Target McDonald’s”, “Because of Fire”, “Judging the Chicago Seven”, and “‘the Robot Zombie Witch Girl’ revisited” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/6/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (video filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Valkyrie attempts”, “Kill with Impunity”, “No Bother”, “Noble Cause”, and “One hundred-fifty years. What did we learn.” from the v176 book “The End of the World” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Valkyrie attempts”, “Kill with Impunity”, “No Bother”, “Noble Cause”, and “One hundred-fifty years. What did we learn.” from the v176 book “The End of the World” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

kindness (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku kindness as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “kindness” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./June 2016 issue collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/9/16 (Austin; Samsung Galaxy S7).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

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

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

Kind of like a City poem highligthed on Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Gouge Out Their Eyes” within her “This is a Poem About” chapbook and read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Eliminating the Endangered Species List” (written on National Panda Day) and “Kind of Like a City” at “Recycled Reads” in Austin 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, in 3 parts, reading her poetry 10/12/19 at the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library. In part 1, read her poem “Check Your Clock” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “Other People’s Worlds” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain”, then her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”, both of those last two poems also read from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Know What Planet She’s From” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her prose poem “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” read from the cc&d 2019 reprints of the May 1996 v79 issue book “Poetry and Prose”, then her poem “Ominous Day” from the cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” that also appears in (and is co-read from) her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 3, she reads her poem “Kind of Like a City” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles, and Bling”from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, in 3 parts, reading her poetry 10/12/19 at the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library. In part 1, read her poem “Check Your Clock” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “Other People’s Worlds” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain”, then her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”, both of those last two poems also read from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Know What Planet She’s From” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her prose poem “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” read from the cc&d 2019 reprints of the May 1996 v79 issue book “Poetry and Prose”, then her poem “Ominous Day” from the cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” that also appears in (and is co-read from) her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 3, she reads her poem “Kind of Like a City” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles, and Bling”from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Kind of like a City”, “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, the haiku “nature I”, and the poem “Vegetarians, One Meal at a Time” from the Scars Publications 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Kind of like a City”, “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, the haiku “nature I”, and the poem “Vegetarians, One Meal at a Time” from the Scars Publications 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Kind of like a City” (+ image), “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, and “Quilled for Poets” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Kind of like a City” (+ image), “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, and “Quilled for Poets” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

kinds of interference

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem kinds of interference in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem kinds of interference in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon P.S.)

Download this poem in the free chapbook “Imzadi” w/ poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, including this poem.

See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “kinds of interference”, “uncuffed” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “kinds of interference”, “uncuffed” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Resistance is Futile” poems “Red Matter”, and “Eugene’s Limit”, then her “Imzadi” poem “Kinds of Interference”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Resistance is Futile” poems “Red Matter”, and “Eugene’s Limit”, then her “Imzadi” poem “Kinds of Interference”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as a bonus reading 5/5/20 the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week) from her perfect-bound ISBN# collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for the “Poetic License open mic 5/5/20 bonus reading” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Kinds of Torture

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Escaping rapeugees and Kinds of Torture 2/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Escaping rapeugees and Kinds of Torture 2/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Exempt from the Draft”, “just to be on the safe side” and “Kinds of Torture” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Exempt from the Draft”, “just to be on the safe side” and “Kinds of Torture” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (S).

Kiribati

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

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

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

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

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” from Scars Publications for “The Café Gallery 2/17/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” from Scars Publications for “The Café Gallery 2/17/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Beginning of the Universe”, “Out Toward the Horizon”, “Neodymium magnets up your nose”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, & “Kiribati” from her manuscript of the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” in front of the grain tower for Circle Brewing Company on 4/28/24 for “the 2024 Poetry Bomb” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

kitsch when “woke”

knees (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku knees live 3#26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku knees live 3#26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “every step”, “knees”, “mirror”, and “keyboard” from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” during the multi-person intro 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “every step”, “knees”, “mirror”, and “keyboard” from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” during the multi-person intro 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 video w/ Sepia; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & Sepia Tone); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

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

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

Knelt and Cried

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See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Knelt and Cried (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Knelt and Cried (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

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

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

Download these poems in the free chapbook “Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15 at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

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

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

See YouTube video 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).

Knew All Along

Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/15/09

See YouTube video 9/4/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Keep flying into Death, and Knew All Along (read with an altered voice) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 9/4/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Keep flying into Death, and Knew All Along (read with an altered voice) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Never Did the Same”, “Cocktail Hour” and “Knew All Along” from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Never Did the Same”, “Cocktail Hour” and “Knew All Along” from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Knew I Had to be Ready

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready” 8/22/17 during the Chicago open mic she guest hosted for Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready” 8/22/17 during the Chicago open mic she guest hosted for Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 8/23/17 of Janet Kuypers’ poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then her show “Under My Skin”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Ernesto”, “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, “The Truth Is Out There”, “x-raying metal under my skin”, “X-rays and broken hearts”, “unique noise”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, and “Returning to Georgetown)” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 8/23/17 of the Janet Kuypers’ poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then her show “Under My Skin”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Ernesto”, “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, “The Truth Is Out There”, “x-raying metal under my skin”, “X-rays and broken hearts”, “unique noise”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, and “Returning to Georgetown)” (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Hard Light filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/17 show “Energy with poetry and Music” “Expressions Poetry with Music!” in Austin performing her songs/poems “Victim” (done as a Chicago Industrial song), “There I Sit” to blues music, “Tight Top Affair” w/ an electric guitar, & “Knew I Had to be Ready” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/17 show “Energy with poetry and Music” at “Expressions Poetry with Music!” in Austin performing her songs/poems “Victim” (done as a Chicago Industrial song), “There I Sit” to blues music, “Tight Top Affair” w/ an electric guitar, & “Knew I Had to be Ready” (on a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature

Download all of these songs & poems in the free PDF file chapbook “Energy with poetry and Music” containing the songs/poems “There I Sit”, “Tight Top Affair”, “Victim”, and “Knew I Had to be Ready”.

See YouTube video 9/21/17 of Janet Kuypers in her show “Seasons Change”, with her poems “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, “Original Snowbirds” (in her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”), “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Sepia Leaves”, “Quell the Vibrancy”, “Seasons 1998”, and “Death Takes Many Forms” (video filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 9/21/17 of Janet Kuypers in her show “Seasons Change”, with her poems “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, “Original Snowbirds” (in her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”), “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Sepia Leaves”, “Quell the Vibrancy”, “Seasons 1998”, and “Death Takes Many Forms” (video filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then ““Questions and Tension” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, and “ultimate connectivity: getting naked with nature” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 9/17/17 at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then “Questions and Tension” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, and “ultimate connectivity: getting naked with nature” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 9/17/17 at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (Panasonic Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 9/23/17 reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then her poems “or my happiness, or my life” and “Life got in the Way” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 9/23/17 reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then her poems “or my happiness, or my life” and “Life got in the Way” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (Sony).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Music” performance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (Panasonic Lumix T56; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Music” performance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, w/ an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Music” performance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, w/ a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her “Energy with Poetry and Music” performance art poems & songs (all performed as poetry readings) “There I Sit” “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “Tight Rope Affair” from the cc&d 4/18 book “War of Water” as she hosted “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” during National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, w/ a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku “He’s an Escapist”, then her poems “There I Sit”, “Victim”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, and “Tight Rope Affair” from her show “Energy with Poetry and Music” for “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PL2500).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “oil”, “quarrel”, “judge”, and “rush”, and then her poems “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “On a High Horse Like This”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Natural Light” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic L2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “oil”, “quarrel”, “judge”, and “rush”, and then her poems “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “On a High Horse Like This”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Natural Light” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (P L 2500; Posterize).

Knew the Word

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queens Rule” (written 11/25, on and for the 1454 birthday of Catherine Cornaro, the Last Queen of Cyprus; d. 1510), “Expand and Save Yourselves” (written 11/26, on and for the 1504 date of the death of Queen Isabella I of Castile), “Underground History” (written 11/30, on and for the 1866 date work begins on the 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, in Chicago), “Your Burden” (written 12/1, on and for the 1847 birthdate of the American poet Julia A. Moore; d1920), “Under Our Own Feet” (written 12/2, on and for the 1942 date man achieved the 1st artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction), “Knew the Word” (written 12/2, on and for the 1818 date Illinois became the 21st state of the United States of America), and “from Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” (written 11/4, on and for Wildlife Conservation Day), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/1/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queens Rule”, “Expand and Save Yourselves”, “Underground History”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Knew the Word”, AND “from Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/1/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, “Knew the Word”, “Until I Get a Chance”, and “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the cc&d 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, “Knew the Word”, “Until I Get a Chance”, and “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the cc&d 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

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

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

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, and “Knew the Word” from the 9-12/21 cc&d book “The World Outside” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, and “Knew the Word” from the 9-12/21 cc&d book “The World Outside” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

knew what he was talking about

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem knew what he was talking about live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem knew what he was talking aboutlive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poem “Only Occasionally”, then her poem “Knew What He was Talking About”, then singing her poem/song during Austin City Limits music weekend “Made Any Difference”, from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” 10/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poem “Only Occasionally”, then her poem “Knew What He was Talking About”, then singing her poem/song during Austin City Limits music weekend “Made Any Difference”, from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” 10/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poem “Only Occasionally”, then her poem “Knew What He was Talking About”, then singing her poem/song during Austin City Limits music weekend “Made Any Difference”, from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” 10/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera Cyan filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poem “Only Occasionally”, then her poem “Knew What He was Talking About”, then singing her poem/song during Austin City Limits music weekend “Made Any Difference”, from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” 10/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold).

Knife

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

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

Watch this YouTube video (:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)

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

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading most of her poem “Knife” from her “ disenfranchised doggerel” show, read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” with John on guitar as she did the final performance of the year 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading most of her poem “Knife” from her “ disenfranchised doggerel” show, read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” with John on guitar as she did the final performance of the year 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Experimental Poetry: Knife

knife (2014 haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku knife as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku knife in Scars Publications’ 2016 Down in the Dirt book the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/23/16 (filmed w/ a Samsung smartphone)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “knife” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/15/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “knife” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/18/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX @ Jim’s diner on a Samsung Galaxy S7).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

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

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

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

Knotted Hate

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)

See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Knotted Hate” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Knotted Hate, Floating Away with the Tide and Scenarios 2000 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Knotted Hate, Floating Away with the Tide and Scenarios 2000 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cps)

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

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

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

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku know, in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 Jul-Dec issue book the Intersection (filmed 12/11/15 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku know in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Nov./Dec. 2015 issue/book Planets Apart (12/14/15 from a Motorola in Austin Texas)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku know @ her Partial Nudity Chicago show 6/18/14 at the Gallery Cabaret (Sony HW)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku know @ her Partial Nudity Chicago show 6/18/14 at the Gallery Cabaret (Canon, day2nite)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku know from light to dark, from Scars Publications’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 2/12/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See a Vine video as Janet Kuypers blows out a candle after reading her haiku know, in Scars Publications’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 2/12/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Know Any Better
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know Any Better live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know Any Betterlive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Patrick Hurley feature 1/29/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago WITH THIS PIECE

Know Completeness poem on Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 Instagram poems “Know Completeness” (then showing the Instagram image highlighting it), her 2019 poem “Our Demons Can Mark Us”, and her 2019 Instagram poem “Over the Lives” (then showing the Instagram image for it), live 6/15/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 Instagram poems “Know Completeness” (then showing the Instagram image highlighting it), her 2019 poem “Our Demons Can Mark Us”, and her 2019 Instagram poem “Over the Lives” (then showing the Instagram image for it), live 6/15/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain” and “Know Completeness” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” of the Down in the Dirt February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain” and “Know Completeness” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” of the the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

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

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

Know How The Truth Is
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection with this poem, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something, now available for sale at iTunes.

See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Truth Is Out There”, “Know How The Truth Is” and “Bad Rhyming Poetry can be Contagious” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Lumix).

See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Truth Is Out There”, “Know How The Truth Is” and “Bad Rhyming Poetry can be Contagious” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Sony).

knowing (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku knowing from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches + more (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

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

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone); posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Knowing a Mastery of Poetry

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity” (written 12/9, on and for the 1941 date the “Subsequent Nuremberg trials” begin with the “Doctors’ trial”, of physicians and officers involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder through euthanasia), “Zealots Intentions” (written 12/10, on and for the anniversary of the 1520 date Martin Luther burned his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine at Wittenberg’s Elster Gate), “Top of the Mountain” (for 12/11, International Mountain Day), “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics” (written 12/11, on and for the anniversary of the 969 date Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes), “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” (written 12/12, on and for the anniversary of the 1889 death of British Poet Robert Browning, b 7 May 1812), and “Every Soul Celebrates” (for 12/13, Saturnalia), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/9/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Zealots Intentions”, “Top of the Mountain”, “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/9/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, and “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Lifeboat” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “holding my hand”, “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb””, “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, and “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Lifeboat” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Explorers at Heart” and “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” during her “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Explorers at Heart” and “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” during her “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

knowing and lurking for eons

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems knowing and lurking for eons, Conversations: a Day of Grieving 1/22/94 eight and Writing Your Name 5/1/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems knowing and lurking for eons, Conversations: a Day of Grieving 1/22/94 eight and Writing Your Name 5/1/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 11/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “to Lisa” & “knowing and lurking for eons” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed with a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 11/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “to Lisa” & “knowing and lurking for eons” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (video from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poems “knowing and lurking for eons”, “QLG 647” and “ex boyfriends became goldfish” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (L) reading her poems “knowing and lurking for eons”, “QLG 647” and “ex boyfriends became goldfish” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library.

Knowing Kevorkian

Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

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

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video read from the 03/11 issue (v218) of cc&d mag, live 03/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 03/15/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 16-year anniversary cc&d v197 re-release “The Unknown Satisfaction” 2024 book poems “Knowing Kevorkian” & sharing the bonus chapbook front cover image (because an edit of this is in the Summer 2024 release of the CyberWit Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) & “Observations: Nine and Six” & sharing the bonus chapbook front cover image to close her “Poetic License 6/2/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed w/ a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Knowing Kevorkian (The Universe is in your Hands edit)

Knowingly Live, Purposely Live

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Obfuscate the Truth” (written on the calendar day in 1925 marking the beginning of the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee of the so-called “Monkey Trial” of John T. Scopes, the teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act), “Our Population, Our Pain, and our Growth” (written 7/11/19, World Population Day), and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” (written 7/12/19, on the birthday of Henry David Thoreau in 1817) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Obfuscate the Truth” (written on the calendar day in 1925 marking the beginning of the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee of the so-called “Monkey Trial” of John T. Scopes, the teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act), “Our Population, Our Pain, and our Growth” (written 7/11/19, World Population Day), and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” (written 7/12/19, on the birthday of Henry David Thoreau in 1817) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” (written 7/12, on the 1817 birthday of Henry David Thoreau), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/12/20 (on this event date) as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 & Sepia; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 & Threshold; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the Down in the Dirt 7/20 book “Gone Fishing” during the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video filmed fromn a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 & Hue Cycling; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & Sepia Tone; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Key Imprisonment and Poetry”, “Obfuscate the Truth”, “Our Population, Our Pain, and Our Growth”, and “Knowingly Live, Purposely Live” from the v173 “Gone Fishing section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/18/20 for the “Builders Book Club” Tuesday nights reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic

See YouTube video live 10/19/19 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase”, where Janet Kuypers read poems from a variety of books in multiple rounds to the live audience at the bookstore. In round 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “On This Day” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Eight to Sixteen” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her Periodic Table poem “Einsteinium” from The Cafe Gallery poetry book “the Chosen Few”. In round 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Empty Chocolate Counter” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Lord have Mercy” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Andrew Hettinger” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, In round 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Star Trek, Star Wars, and Storm Troopers” from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Chess Game Again” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, then her bonus poem “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, written that morning, on Sweetest Day, 10/19/19. In round 4, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend” (for her “Bases Loaded” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “All These Reminders” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 5, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Uphill Battles lead to Changing It Up” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Violent Affair” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “She Told Me Her Dreams (one)” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 6, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “New Vacuum Cleaner” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 1996 v79 book “Poetry and Prose” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video live 10/19/19 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase”, where Janet Kuypers read poems from a variety of books in multiple rounds to the live audience at the bookstore. In round 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “On This Day” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Eight to Sixteen” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her Periodic Table poem “Einsteinium” from The Cafe Gallery poetry book “the Chosen Few”. In round 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Empty Chocolate Counter” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Lord have Mercy” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Andrew Hettinger” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, In round 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Star Trek, Star Wars, and Storm Troopers” from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Chess Game Again” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, then her bonus poem “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, written that morning, on Sweetest Day, 10/19/19. In round 4, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend” (for her “Bases Loaded” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “All These Reminders” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 5, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Uphill Battles lead to Changing It Up” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Violent Affair” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “She Told Me Her Dreams (one)” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 6, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “New Vacuum Cleaner” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 1996 v79 book “Poetry and Prose” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death takes many forms. (Concrete Mist edition)” and “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” from the recently-released Concrete Mist Press Anthology, followed by her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, at the beginning of the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (rom a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death takes many forms. (Concrete Mist edition)” and “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” from the recently-released Concrete Mist Press Anthology, followed by her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, at the beginning of the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

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

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

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

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

Knowing that Instant

See this YouTube video 4/25/21 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knowing that Instant” for the 2021 Poetry Bomb at the Alamo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knowing that Instant” for the 2021 Poetry Bomb 4/25/21 at the Alamo (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Chicago “The Café Gallery” poetry open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Society, Glossed Over” and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine August 2021 v186 issue/paperback book “Three Things” 8/4/21 in front of the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago for “The Café Gallery 8/4/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Chicago “The Café Gallery” poetry open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Society, Glossed Over” and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine August 2021 v186 issue/paperback book “Three Things” 8/4/21 in front of the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago for The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, “Until I Choose Life”, and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, “Until I Choose Life”, and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Known for my Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evening Sea of Sacred Poetry”, “Vagary to not only Dream”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 9/24/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evening Sea of Sacred Poetry”, “Vagary to not only Dream”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 9/24/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the cc&d September 2021 v313 issue/paperback book “Choices” at the beginning to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 9/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the cc&d September 2021 v313 issue/paperback book “Choices” at the beginning to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 9/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry

Know Peace and Rise to Power

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Judged on Looks”, “Pickle History was No Matter”, “Just so Others can Feel”, and “Know Peace and Rise to Power” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Judged on Looks” (written 11/10, on and for Sadie Hawkins Day), “Pickle History was No Matter”” (written 11/14, on and for National Pickle Day), “Just so Others can Feel” (written in November during National Novel Writing Month), and “Know Peace and Rise to Power” (written 11/19, on and for the birthday of Indira Gandhi, 1917) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Waste in Space”, “Judged on Looks”, “Know Peace and Rise to Power”, “People Forget Politics”, “Unwind and Revere Yourself”, “Expand and Save Yourselves”, and “Queens Rule” from the Down in the Dirt November 2021 v189 issue/paperback book “A Door is A Door is A Door” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Waste in Space”, “Judged on Looks”, “Know Peace and Rise to Power”, “People Forget Politics”, “Unwind and Revere Yourself”, “Expand and Save Yourselves”, and “Queens Rule” from the Down in the Dirt November 2021 v189 issue/paperback book “A Door is A Door is A Door” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Know Peace and Rise to Power”, and “Expand and Save Yourselves” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Know Peace and Rise to Power”, and “Expand and Save Yourselves” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an old b&w film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Know they are Loved
stray cat excerpt on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr.
house cat excerpt in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr.

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One Would be Chosen” (written 10/12 for the 1492 date Christopher Columbus Discovers America), “Farmer” and “Verdant Green” (for 10/12, National Farmers Day), “Vacuum of Space” (written 10/11, on and for the day in 1984 when astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger as the first American woman to perform a space walk), “No Bother” (written 10/13, on and for Good Samaritan Day), “Valkyrie attempts” (written 10/14 on 1944 date of the suicide of Erwin Rommel), “Everyone Will React” (written the 3rd Tuesday of October, on and for National Face Your Fears Day), “Know they are Loved” (written 10/16, on and for Global Cat Day), “You Don’t Expect It” (written 10/17, on and for World Trauma Day), “Violent Endeavour” (written 10/18, on the 1967 date the first space probe entered another planet’s atmosphere (Soviet Venera 4 to Venus), “Know they are Loved”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” (written the 3rd Saturday of October, on and for Sweetest Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One Would be Chosen”, “Farmer”, “Verdant Green”, “Vacuum of Space”, “No Bother”, “Valkyrie attempts”, “Everyone Will React”, “Know they are Loved”, “You Don’t Expect It”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

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

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

Know what I know (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

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

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

Know What Planet She’s From

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” in her “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” chapbook and read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Know What Planet She’s From” (written on the anniv. of the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan) & “Just the Right Words” 4/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” in her “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” chapbook and read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Know What Planet She’s From” (written on the anniv. of the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan) & “Just the Right Words” 4/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, in 3 parts, reading her poetry 10/12/19 at the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library. In part 1, read her poem “Check Your Clock” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “Other People’s Worlds” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain”, then her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”, both of those last two poems also read from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Know What Planet She’s From” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her prose poem “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” read from the cc&d 2019 reprints of the May 1996 v79 issue book “Poetry and Prose”, then her poem “Ominous Day” from the cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” that also appears in (and is co-read from) her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 3, she reads her poem “Kind of Like a City” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles, and Bling”from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, in 3 parts, reading her poetry 10/12/19 at the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library. In part 1, read her poem “Check Your Clock” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “Other People’s Worlds” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain”, then her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”, both of those last two poems also read from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Know What Planet She’s From” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her prose poem “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” read from the cc&d 2019 reprints of the May 1996 v79 issue book “Poetry and Prose”, then her poem “Ominous Day” from the cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” that also appears in (and is co-read from) her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 3, she reads her poem “Kind of Like a City” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles, and Bling”from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Know What Planet She’s From”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Video Killed the Radio Star” from the Scars Publications 2/22 v318 issue of cc&d, “The Great White” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Know What Planet She’s From”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Video Killed the Radio Star” from the Scars Publications 2/22 v318 issue of cc&d, “The Great White” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Know What Planet She’s From”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, “Video Killed the Radio Star”, and “Carbon Copy” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem) from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Know What Planet She’s From”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, “Video Killed the Radio Star”, and “Carbon Copy” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem) from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Know When to Play it Safe

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” book poems “Know When to Play it Safe” (which is also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”) & “Who I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)” during her “Poetic License 4/7/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Know You

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know You from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know You from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Know You, Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas and Overweight Reasons, plus Robin Williams’ lines on why we read and write poetry in an excerpt from Dead Poets Society at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (C)

See this YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “On All Fours” and “Know You” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX720 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “On All Fours” and “Know You” at “Recycled Reads” (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera video w/ an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On All Fours”, “Know You” and “erasure poem: a Poetic History” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On All Fours”, “Know You” and “erasure poem: a Poetic History” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”; (Sony, Sepia Tone filter).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Know You Only Got Me (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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

Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo from the live feature “Games We Play”, including this poem (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Part of my Pain” her poems “Good Escape”, “In These Times”, “Part of my Pain”, “Now That You Got Me”, “Ever Since you Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Push Your Button”, “How People Interpret my Words”, and “Observer’s Love Poem” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poems “Under my Fingers” and “Know You Only Got Me” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Then You, Women who Work I” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poems “Under my Fingers” and “Know You Only Got Me” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Then You, Women who Work I” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Koala Porn (twitter-length poem)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Koi Ponds and Concrete

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

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

Download the free chapbook with this poem titled  Count Me In, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including tihs poem

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table of Poetry poem Krypton, live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery poetry open mic

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v334 6/23 cc&d 30-year anniversary issue/book “From a Devil to an Angel” poems “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Krypton” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Krypton, Messed With” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 6/4/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from the open mic that was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Krypton, Messed With poem on Facebook and Twitter

Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v334 6/23 cc&d 30-year anniversary issue/book “From a Devil to an Angel” poems “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Krypton” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Krypton, Messed With” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 6/4/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from the open mic that was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Kuiper Belt Ferryman

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15) live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15) live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15), her facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Enshrined”, and her poem “Europa and Ganymede Calling” live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15), her facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Enshrined”, and her poem “Europa and Ganymede Calling” live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for the day the New Horizons space probe photographs Pluto and Charon 7/13/15), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/13/20 (on this event date) as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for the day the New Horizons space probe photographs Pluto and Charon 7/13/15) and “Juxtaposition we Experience” (written 7/16, for the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (on a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for the day the New Horizons space probe photographs Pluto and Charon 7/13/15) and “Juxtaposition we Experience” (written 7/16, for the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” and “A Storyteller’s Dilemma” (+ the image) from the cc&d July 2021 v311 issue/paperback book “Night in the City”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” and “A Storyteller’s Dilemma” (+ the image) from the cc&d July 2021 v311 issue/paperback book “Night in the City”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman”, “A Storyteller’s Dilemma” (plus sharing the image), “Queen of the Night Sky”, and “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail” from the cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman”, “A Storyteller’s Dilemma” (plus sharing the image), “Queen of the Night Sky”, and “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail” from the cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Threshold filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman”, “A Storyteller’s Dilemma” (plus sharing the image), “Queen of the Night Sky”, and “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail” from the cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman”, “A Storyteller’s Dilemma” (plus sharing the image), “Queen of the Night Sky”, and “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail” from the cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)
[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 (or live: ) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control

Never before seen on social media, see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl)” (written in 1997) from her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by AmJaz for the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See this Archive video of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” (23:21) live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by AmJaz for the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork, including her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl)”, “The Men At The Construction Site”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “And What I Want To Know”, “And I’m Wondering”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “Athena”, “Military Police”, “Too Far”, and “Communication ‘05” (from the Internet Archive, this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (8/14/97) “Seeing Things Differently”, or order ANY track from this CD “Seeing Things Differently” through iTunes any time.

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

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

Order this iTunes track: from Chaos in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 08/03/10

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers (as open mic host) introducing the open mic at the Café in Chicago 08/03/10 before Kuypers read this poem while playing the guitar

Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 8/15/10 in Chicago (with John on guitar)

Watch this YouTube video 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

Watch this YouTube video 11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See YouTube video 05/03/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books Unknown and Sexism and Other Stories and in cc&d mag v220, the 05/11 issue)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)” 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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl) live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Canon Power Shot).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “The Muse, the Messiah”, and “Paranois” from her book “Chapter 38 v2” (followed by a song by John) at “Poetry Aloud” 5#26/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “The Muse, the Messiah”, and “Paranois” from her book “Chapter 38 v2” (followed by a song by John) at “Poetry Aloud” 5#26/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

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

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

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

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

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