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Made Any Difference
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem 06/28/11 on WZRD radio (C. Schandelmeier & John Yotko singing back-up)
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video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera
video See YouTube video of this in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”
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video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”
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video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature
download chapbook PDF filePDF Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook
video See YouTube video performed live (John Yotko back-up vocals and rain stick) at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11
video See the full YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ feature “Triple Threat” at Trunk Fest, live outdoors in Evanston IL 7/24/11, which includes this writing (this video post appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
video See YouTube video of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo
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video of many poems (including this one) read 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo from the live feature
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of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera)
video video See Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)
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read live 11/20/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago
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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago
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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” (including this piece) live 11/20/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Made Any Difference” with guitar and back-up vocals by John live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading a number of her poems & prose including this writing (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, accompanying opera vocals from Suzanne Hettinger, and guitar from John) live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram
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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko), from the Samsung Camera
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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko), from the Kodak Camera
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live at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago, with John Yotko on guitar 12/18/11
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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung)
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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony)
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of this poem sung (w/ John Y. on guitar) as the 1st performer at the last show at Café Mestizo 4/21/12
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of this poem sung live (John guitar) at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12
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of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music from Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement, off their Album “the Minstral Show” called “Dinner Date”, from the Canon)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music from Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement, off their Album “the Minstral Show” called “Dinner Date”, from the Sony)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music she created for her 2004 “Dreams” show while she spoke with an alternate male voice, from the Canon)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music she created for her 2004 “Dreams” show while she spoke with an alternate male voice, from the Sony)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, with music that the HA!man of South Africa created for her performance of this poem (which was filmed from the Canon)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, with music that the HA!man of South Africa created for her performance of this poem (which was filmed from the Sony)
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of Kuypers’ open mike 7/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus multiple versions of this poem & song
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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/1/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with live piano from Gary, from the Canon)
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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/1/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with live piano from Gary, from the Sony)
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of Kuypers’ open mike 8/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her performing this poem
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (to John’s song, with John on guitar and piano from Gary, from the Canon)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (to John’s song, with John on guitar and piano from Gary, from the Sony)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece
video See YouTube video of Kuypers performing this poem/song (w/ John’s original song on guitar) 8/29/12 at the singer/songwriter night at the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (from the Canon)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers performing this poem/song (w/ John’s original song on guitar) 8/29/12 at the singer/songwriter night at the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (from the Sony)
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of this poem sung live with a jazz band 5/12/13 at the uptown open mic at the Green Mill in Chicago
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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
Made Any Difference” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading
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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)
the 5/18/13 “Tag Team” reading chapbook
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the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”
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of Janet Kuypers singing her song/poem Made Any Difference in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing
Nashville Halloween feature chapbook
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Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.
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of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference poem (w/ John on acoustic guitar) live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon, balance, crop, saturate)
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of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference poem (w/ John on acoustic guitar) live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon, balance)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem Made Any Difference with other originals and covers in her last music show in Chicago 7/22/15 at the Café Gallery (which was filmed from the Canon fs200)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem Made Any Difference with other originals and covers in her last music show in Chicago 7/22/15 at the Café Gallery (which was filmed from the Canon Power Shot)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference (to John Y.’s music), then reading her poems Fantastic Car Crash and Too Far 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (Cfs)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference (to John Y.’s music), then reading her poems Fantastic Car Crash and Too Far 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (Cps)
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Listen as Janet Kuypers reads her poem Made Any Difference with music by Andy Derryberry and art by Davis Michael Jackson
video See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Nikon CoolPix S7000), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Canon Power Shot), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/15/16 at Round Rock’s music open mic at the American Legion (Nikon CoolPix S7000), with covers of George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and their original Made Any Difference.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/15/16 at Round Rock’s music open mic at the American Legion, with covers of George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and their original “Made Any Difference” (this video was filmed from a Nikon Coolpix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing Keeping a Record of Going Too Far, Made Any Difference (to John’s song), and How People Interpret My Words 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing Keeping a Record of Going Too Far, Made Any Difference (to John’s song), and How People Interpret My Words 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Leonard Cohen’s Coming Back to You, her poem Made Any Difference, the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her poem Under the Sea (set to Beatles music), & George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise) 2/16/16 at The Uptown Social open mic in Georgetown TX (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Leonard Cohen’s Coming Back to You, her poem Made Any Difference, the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her poem Under the Sea (set to Beatles music), & George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise) 2/16/16 at The Uptown Social open mic in Georgetown TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s The Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s The Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 5/15/16 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s covering Sinead O’Conor’s Black Boys on Mopeds, then with California musician Kevin Marin joining them on harmonica w/ the Smiths’ London, and their song Made Any Difference (Cps camera; cropped & saturated).
video video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 5/15/16 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s covering Sinead O’Conor’s Black Boys on Mopeds, then with California musician Kevin Marin joining them on harmonica w/ the Smiths’ London, and their song Made Any Difference (on a Sony camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and her poem Made Any Difference (cut off) 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park music and poetry event in Austin TX (Cps).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and her poem Made Any Difference 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park music and poetry event in Austin (Sony).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/3/16 show “How Music is Poetic” at Expressions 2016: September Song! in Austin performing her songs/poems “What We Need In Life” with “Fantastic Car Crash” between verses 2 & 3, “Tin”, and “Made any Difference” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/3/16 show “How Music is Poetic” at Expressions 2016: September Song! in Austin performing her songs/poems “What We Need In Life” with “Fantastic Car Crash” between verses 2 & 3, “Tin”, and “Made any Difference” (Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature
How Music is Poetic chapbook
Download all of these songs & poems in the free PDF file chapbook
How Music is Poetic
containing the songs/poems
What We Need In Life”,
Fantastic Car Crash”,
Tin”, and “Made any Difference”.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Made any Difference”, then reading her poems “jihadists and astrophysics” and “elusive imaginary creature” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Made any Difference”, then reading her poems “jihadists and astrophysics” and “elusive imaginary creature” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 5/22/17 covering Ani DiFranco’s “I am Not a Pretty Girl”, then their poem/song “Made any Difference”, then Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” live at Austin’s B. D. Riley’s (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 5/22/17 covering Ani DiFranco’s “I am Not a Pretty Girl”, then their poem/song “Made any Difference”, then Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” live at Austin’s B. D. Riley’s (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 2/4/18 singing her MFV song “What We Need In Life”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, & their poem/song “Made any Difference” live at Open Mic Night at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 2/4/18 singing her MFV song “What We Need In Life”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, & their poem/song “Made any Difference” live at Open Mic Night at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from the bar; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from a table; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Posterize filter).
video video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given an Edge Detection filter).
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask”, with ‘books’ for ‘bombs’ lyrics changes (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (From a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Threshold filter.)
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (From a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Posterize filter.)
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & w/ an Edge Detection filter.)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar live 4/22/18 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference to John’s song with him on guitar live 4/22/18 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Edge Detection).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference to John’s song with him on guitar live 4/22/18 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar live 4/22/18 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference to John’s song with him on guitar live 4/22/18 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference to John’s song with him on guitar live 4/22/18 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (Panasonic Lumix T56).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” 4/23/18 at Austin’s Buzz Mill open mic (Panasonic Lumix 2500).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and given an Edge Detection filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Being God”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” to John’s song with him on guitar, then reading her poem “Vent” live 4/23/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then reading her poems “Oklahoma Water Surfing” and “Foreign Farmer” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (w/ a Panasonic Lumix 2500).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then reading her poems “Oklahoma Water Surfing” and “Foreign Farmer” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, her poem “Too Far” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem/ song “Made Any Difference” with John on guitar, from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/10/18 @ “For to Famous(from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, her poem “Too Far” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem/ song “Made Any Difference” with John on guitar, from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/10/18 @ “For to Famous” a(from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Conflicting Convictions”, “Ogilvie”, and singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from the cc&d v5 poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Conflicting Convictions”, “Ogilvie”, and singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from the cc&d v5 poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video 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).
video 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).
video 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).
video 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).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing “Love is Stronger than Death” by “The The” with John on guitar, finishing with his song and her poem/song “Made any Difference”, live 2/15/20 at the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing “Love is Stronger than Death” by “The The” with John on guitar, finishing with his song and her poem/song “Made any Difference”, live 2/15/20 at the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Endings Bring Light(written on and for 12/21, the Winter/December Solstice) and “Christmas Eve(for Christmas Eve) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”, then her singing her poem “Made Any Difference” with John on guitar (performed because it is one of the poems appearing in her 2021 poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now”), during the “Spoken World Paris/Online” open mic 12/22/20 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersinstagram
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Endings Bring Light(written on and for 12/21, the Winter/December Solstice) and “Christmas Eve(for Christmas Eve) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”then her singing her poem “Made Any Difference” with John on guitar (performed because it is one of the poems appearing in her 2021 poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now”), during the “Spoken World Paris/Online” open mic 12/22/20 (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “One by One, the Beech Trees Fell”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/14/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “One by One, the Beech Trees Fell”, then singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/14/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, working at her desk, as John interrupted her to play guitar as she sang her poem “Made Any Difference” to his song, for a YouTube video release submission by John for NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert”, performing an original song while at your desk. (This video was filmed with a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperssinging
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers, working at her desk, as John Yotko interrupted her to play guitar as she sang her poem “Made Any Difference” to his song, for a future YouTube video release submission for NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert (performing an original song while at your desk). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperssinging
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet and John performing an impromptu music set at “Three Legged Goat” in Pflugerville, including the Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What we Need in Life”, their original song “Made any Difference”, the Eurythmics song “I Need You”, the George Michael song “Waiting (reprise)”, and the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds” (this video was zoomed in from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
Janet & John, 5 songs Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet and John performing an impromptu music set at “Three Legged Goat” in Pflugerville, including the Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What we Need in Life”, their original song “Made any Difference”, the Eurythmics song “I Need You”, the George Michael song “Waiting (reprise)”, and the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds”. (This performance was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera) #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging


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

video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)
video See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w#&047; Threshold filter), including this poem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Promethium”, “Ununseptium”, “Helium Addiction”, “Magnesium” and “Lead” in her mini-feature “After the Apocalypse” live 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem
video See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodical table poem
video See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers (L; Hue C.) reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library.
video See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers (L; Sepia) reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library.
video See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers (Lumix) reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library.
video See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers (L/Th) reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library.


Magnesium becomes a thermal blanket
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
video Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem


Magnesium Burn poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr,
3rd place winner of the C&EN (Chemical and Engineering News magazine) Periodic Poetry contest in 2019
announced and listed in their September 2, 2019 issue article “#PeriodicPoetry contest winners announced

video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (filed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (filed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Magnesium Burn” (that won 3rd place in a contest sponsored by and appearing in “Chemistry and Engineering News”), her editorial “Weighing on my Soul” (read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), and her poem “Escape to Peace” (written on and for World Environment Day) from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live 9/14/19 at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; it was also linked on Facebook,Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Magnesium Burn” (that won 3rd place in a contest sponsored by and appearing in “Chemistry and Engineering News”), her editorial “Weighing on my Soul” (read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), and her poem “Escape to Peace” (written on and for World Environment Day) from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live 9/14/19 at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter; it was also linked on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Exploring Evolution” read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, “Even if Only (dreams 4/15/19)” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Magnesium Burn” (#12, Mg, that won 3rd place in a contest sponsored by and appearing in “Chemistry and Engineering News”), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Exploring Evolution” read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, “Even if Only (dreams 4/15/19)” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Magnesium Burn” (#12, Mg, that won 3rd place in a contest sponsored by and appearing in “Chemistry and Engineering News”), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video 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).
Janet 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).
video 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 v171Seasons” 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).
video 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 v171Seasons” 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).
video 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
video 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
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems Carbon Copy”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Elementary, the Coronavirus”, “Oxygen Save Me”, “Oxygen Feeds”, “Oxygen: the Price is Right”, “Oxygen makes superionic ice”, “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Neon in the Air”, “Sodium: Worth your Weight”, and “Magnesium Burn” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems Carbon Copy”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Elementary, the Coronavirus”, “Oxygen Save Me”, “Oxygen Feeds”, “Oxygen: the Price is Right”, “Oxygen makes superionic ice”, “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Neon in the Air”, “Sodium: Worth your Weight”, and “Magnesium Burn” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem


Magnificent Desolation
video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Enshrined” (for 7/20, Space Exploration Day) and “Magnificent Desolation” (for 7/20, the day in 1969 of the Apollo 11 moon landing), 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 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Enshrined” (for 7/20, Space Exploration Day) and “Magnificent Desolation” (for 7/20, the day in 1969 of the Apollo 11 moon landing), 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 (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Magnificent Desolation” (written 7/20, the day in 1969 of the Apollo 11 moon landing), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/20/20 (on this event date) as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video 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 v299So 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).
video 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 v299So 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).


Magnum Opus
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Make Me
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Make People Think
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Make the Drawing Make Sense
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Make Things Better
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Make Us Laugh

Makes Me Love To Hate You More

This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Making Sense Out Of The Insane
2012 translation of this poem in Slovak: “Dávať zmysel nezmyselnému”
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Making the Bed

Manganese (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)
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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago with this poem, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music “All Fall Down” in the background (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music in the background, of “All Fall Down” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, starting and ending w/ her poetry mini features, with this poem
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Sony)
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon)
video See this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic TableMega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago with her 5 poems “Touching Cobalt”, “Bismuth”, “Cadmium”, “Manganese” and “Cesium” (Sony; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic TableMega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago with her 5 poems “Touching Cobalt”, “Bismuth”, “Cadmium”, “Manganese” and “Cesium” (Canon; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Manganese in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)
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video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Manganese in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (S)
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Alumium? Aluminium? Aluminum?” (bonus poem for element Al, #13), “Manganese” (Mn, #25), and “Iridium” (Ir, #77) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Alumium? Aluminium? Aluminum?” (bonus poem for element Al, #13), “Manganese” (Mn, #25), and “Iridium” (Ir, #77) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Manganese” and “Cadmium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, then her poem “Iron in my Eyes” from her “In Homage” feature reading, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Manganese” and “Cadmium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, then her poem “Iron in my Eyes” from her “In Homage” feature reading, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).


Manganese can cure us all poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Exposed and Abandoned (dreams 3/24/20)” and her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Manganese can cure us all” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Exposed and Abandoned (dreams 3/24/20)” and her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Manganese can cure us all” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Titanium for Spies”, “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle”, “Manganese Growing”, “Iron Bloodied Eyelids”, “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Copper in your Mouth”, and “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Titanium for Spies”, “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle”, “Chromium Shine”, “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, “Iron Bloodied Eyelids”, “Cobalt Goblins”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Copper in your Mouth”, and “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem


Manganese Growing poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table PoemsManganese Growing(#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In(#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins(#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon(#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth(#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool(#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive(#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure(#33, As), “Selenium Mixing(#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault(#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions(#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me(#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping(#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table PoemsManganese Growing(#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In(#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins(#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon(#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth(#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool(#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive(#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure(#33, As), “Selenium Mixing(#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault(#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions(#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me(#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping(#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19(Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table PoemsManganese Growing(#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In(#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins(#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon(#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth(#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool(#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive(#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure(#33, As), “Selenium Mixing(#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault(#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions(#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me(#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping(#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table PoemsManganese Growing(#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In(#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins(#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon(#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth(#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool(#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive(#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure(#33, As), “Selenium Mixing(#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault(#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions(#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me(#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping(#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19(Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Manganese Growing” her poem “Last Before Extinction” (read from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Lightand her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”), and her poem “Catching a Muscovy” (read from the the cc&d May 2008 v184 issue book “That was the Time”) live 9/14/19 at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Manganese Growing” her poem “Last Before Extinction” (read from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Lightand her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”), and her poem “Catching a Muscovy” (read from the the cc&d May 2008 v184 issue book “That was the Time”) live 9/14/19 at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr).
video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Titanium for Spies”, “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle”, “Manganese Growing”, “Iron Bloodied Eyelids”, “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Copper in your Mouth”, and “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Scandium, Held Tightly”, “Titanium for Spies”, “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle”, “Chromium Shine”, “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, “Iron Bloodied Eyelids”, “Cobalt Goblins”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Copper in your Mouth”, and “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem


Manic Depressive or Something
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Mapping the Way to True Love
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/4/17 show “Exalted Love” at “Greatest Love” in Austin reading her poems “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” with music (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/4/17 show “Exalted Love” at “Greatest Love” in Austin reading her poems “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” with music (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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with her 2017 poems “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” performed in her 2/4/17 show.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/5/17 20+ minute poetry reading at Austin’s Recycled Reads, with her poems “the Fourteenth”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “the Page”, “the Flashback”, “the Muse, the Messiah”, “Slate and Marrow”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “a Pick for the Future” poems “eminence”, “Mapping the Way to True Love” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “a Pick for the Future” poems “eminence”, “Mapping the Way to True Love” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video 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).
video 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).
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See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Underwater and Swimming”, then her poems “our futures”; & “Mapping the Way to True Love” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 3/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” her poems “Mapping the Way to True Love” and “Just One Book” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 3/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” her poems “Mapping the Way to True Love” and “Just One Book” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry


March Forth
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On All Fours” originally performed in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poems “Join Me”, and “March Forth”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On All Fours” originally performed in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poems “Join Me”, and “March Forth”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296Another Lifetime” 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).
video See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296Another Lifetime” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera live film; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks
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See YouTube video 9/4/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “Opposite” in conversation, then reading her poems “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks”, “This May Sound (edited)”, and “Childhood Memories Four” at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera).
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video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersAugust 2017 Book Release Reading 8/2/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Ancient Colors” poems “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks”, “Step”, “jumped”, “behind”, “gone”, “bruised” and “oceans” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Step” and “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, plus her poem “On All Fours” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 9/9/17 (from a Sony camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Step” and “Marilyn Monroe Falling Through the Cracks” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, plus her poem “On All Fours” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 9/9/17 (from a Lumix camera).


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Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09
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Marine Rifle Poem
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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10
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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 07/27/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poem “You Will”, “Marine Rifle Poem” “Build Your Own Cross”, and “Waiting for a Sign”
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of Wayne Allen Jones reading this 11/02/10, live at the Café in Chicago
video 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).
video 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).
video 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).
video 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).
“Drop the Bomb” 4/30/17 chapbook
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“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).
video 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
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Marne Rifle Poem” from her book “Twitterati”, then singing the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds” with John on acoustic guitar 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Marne Rifle Poem” from her book “Twitterati”, then singing the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds” with John on acoustic guitar 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic


married
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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)
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of Kuypers’ open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem
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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem married at the open mike 7/21/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago
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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem married at the open mike 7/21/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago
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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading 3 poems - INCLUDING THIS POEM - 7/21/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus
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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading 3 poems - INCLUDING THIS POEM - 7/21/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus


marry me... whatever you are
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic


Marry you in Autumn
video 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
video 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
Seasons Change
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Seasons Change Seasons Change with “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Knew I Had to be Ready”, “Original Snowbirds”, “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”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 9/23/17 reading her poem “Marry you in Autumn”, then her poems “erasure poem: Corner Stone Against Slavery” and “One of the Most Hated Women in America” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (L).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 9/23/17 reading her poem “Marry you in Autumn”, then her poems “erasure poem: Corner Stone Against Slavery” and “One of the Most Hated Women in America” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at Georgetown Public Library’s “Poetry Aloud” (S).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 10/7/17 show “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” @ “Expressions Welcomes Autumn!” in Austin, performing her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs/Bahá’í Center edit)”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Just by Holding his Hand”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, performed with the HA!Man of South Africa’s music “the Ice is Melting” and a rotating art display (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 10/7/17 show “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” @ “Expressions Welcomes Autumn!” in Austin, performing her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs/Bahá’í Center edit)”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Just by Holding his Hand”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s “the Ice is Melting”, cricket sounds in the background and a random rotating art display (Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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video See Janet KuypersYouTube video 11/5/17, while singing the Erasure song “How Many Times” w/ John on acoustic guitar, also reads her poems “Who You Tell Your Dreams To” and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend” from her book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, and “Marry you in Autumn” in the song @ Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).
video See Janet KuypersYouTube video 11/5/17, while singing the Erasure song “How Many Times” w/ John on acoustic guitar, also reads her poems “Who You Tell Your Dreams To” and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend” from her book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, and “Marry you in Autumn” in the song @ Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).
video See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).
video See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).
video See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)” and “Marry you in Autumn” from the “Seasons Change” 9/21/17 Dripping Springs show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)” and “Marry you in Autumn” from the “Seasons Change” 9/21/17 Dripping Springs show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; Posterize).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)” and “Marry you in Autumn” from the “Seasons Change” 9/21/17 Dripping Springs show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; Edge Det).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)” and “Marry you in Autumn” from the “Seasons Change” 9/21/17 Dripping Springs show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; Threshold).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersMarch 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersMarch 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersMarch 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersMarch 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersMay 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Sepia Leaves”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry you in Autumn” and “Just by Holding His Hand”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersMay 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Sepia Leaves”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry you in Autumn” and “Just by Holding His Hand”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)” and Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)Marry you in Autumn” for Autumn and read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”, then her poem “You Have No Idea” 9/19/20 during the Open Mic Showcase (video filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).


Mary’s Perspective
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Mary’s Perspective on How that Whole Jesus thing Turned Out”, “letter, 4/14/95 one”, “letter, 4/14/95 two”, “letter, 4/14/95 three”, “letter, 4/19/95”, “Us Creative Types”, and “How People Interpret My Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testament” on 4/30/23 in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also released as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb


Experimental Poetry: Mask
Mask in Serbian


Masquerade
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video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersOctober 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “a Finch in the Window” poems “origin, from the macro to the micro”, “violence and peace both work”, “Masquerade” “Curium”, “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersOctober 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “a Finch in the Window” poems “origin, from the macro to the micro”, “violence and peace both work”, “Masquerade” “Curium”, “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video 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).
video 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).
video 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).
video 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).
video 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
video 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


maybe i love you

Maybe That Is Enough
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Maybe You Can
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Mean to Me
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video See YouTube video 06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)
video See feature-length YouTube video (21:47) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café
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video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).


mechanical soldiers (twitter-length poem)
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video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Twitterati” her poems “Poverty in America”, “Oklahoma water-surfing”, “Zach makes me Think about these Things”, “Mechanical Soldiers”, “Fingers Black”, “You Cannot Burn Me”, “Opening Our Own Doors”, “Guantanamo Bay”, “Even if the Pope Claims It”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “From Words to Wars”, “Money Became an Abstract”, “Where does the Love Go”, “Spent”, and “Cast in Stone” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Twitterati” her poems “Poverty in America”, “Oklahoma water-surfing”, “Zach makes me Think about these Things”, “Mechanical Soldiers”, “Fingers Black”, “You Cannot Burn Me”, “Opening Our Own Doors”, “Guantanamo Bay”, “Even if the Pope Claims It”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “From Words to Wars”, “Money Became an Abstract”, “Where does the Love Go”, “Spent”, and “Cast in Stone” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).


Medication
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video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/28/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, mixed into their CD Burn Through Me)
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video See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in her “Last Minute” mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See YouTube video of 4 mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where Janet Kuypers reads this poem in a “last minute” mini-feature
video See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Medication” from her book “Hope Chest in the Attic” live at the open mic “Poetry Plus” at Cianfrani’s in Georgetown (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Medication” from her book “Hope Chest in the Attic” live at the open mic “Poetry Plus” at Cianfrani’s in Georgetown (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video from 5/3/17 of Janet KuypersMay 2017 Book Release Reading at Half Price Books, where she said her haiku “uphill” then read her prose “Driving by his House” in “Hands that Hurt”, then her poems “Medication” and “Empty Chocolate Counter” in “Things Found in Books” (this video filmed from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video from 5/3/17 of Janet KuypersMay 2017 Book Release Reading at Half Price Books, where she said her haiku “uphill” then read her prose “Driving by his House” in “Hands that Hurt”, then her poems “Medication” and “Empty Chocolate Counter” in “Things Found in Books” (this video filmed from a Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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YouTube video 10/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Medication” from her now sold-out book “Change/Rearrange” live at the Blue Hole reading at the opening night of the Georgetown Poetry Festival (Sony camera).
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YouTube video 10/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Medication” from her now sold-out book “Change/Rearrange” live at the Blue Hole reading at the opening night of the Georgetown Poetry Festival (Lumix camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia).


Meitnerium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize
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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Oxygen”, “Touching Cobalt”, and “Meitnerium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Meitnerium” the cc&d July - Dec. 2014 issue collection book “One Solitary Word” as the intro to her Poetic License open mic 12/1/19, hosting “Poetic License” on 12/1/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Meitnerium” the cc&d July - Dec. 2014 issue collection book “One Solitary Word” as the intro to her Poetic License open mic 12/1/19, hosting “Poetic License” on 12/1/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).


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


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

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


Mementos and Memories

Memorial Day
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)
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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)
video Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video (from the Internet Archive) of Janet Kuypers’ show Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1) at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, w/ this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
video 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


Memorial Day 2019 edit poem on Instagram and Twitter
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “At the Camp” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Unity for Humanity” (written on and for The Declaration of The Báb day) and “Memorial Day (2019 edit)”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “At the Camp” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Unity for Humanity” (written on and for The Declaration of The Báb day) and “Memorial Day (2019 edit)”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (Panasonic Lumix 2500).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Memorial Day (2019 edit)” on Memorial Day from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/25/20 as a bonus May reading for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook streaming live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Memorial Day (2019 edit)” on Memorial Day from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/25/20 as a bonus May reading for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), and “Zouk or Xibelani from the v321 5/22 cc&d book “The New Normal”, then, after Zoom host John F. McMullen reads his poem in “The New NormalJanet Kuypers followed it by reading her poem Human Construct of Time” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22 she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), and “Zouk or Xibelani from the v321 5/22 cc&d book “The New Normal”, then her poem Human Construct of Time” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22 she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Became a Circus”, “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), “Zouk or Xibelani”, “Out of Wedding Dresses”, and “Human Construct of Time” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Memorial Day, 2019 edit” (+ image), “Became a Circus”, “Dance Among the Ashes” (+ image), “Zouk or Xibelani”, “Out of Wedding Dresses”, and “Human Construct of Time” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading


Men Are Dogs Is True
the poetry 2 CD setCHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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Mendelevium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Mendelevium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Canon)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Mendelevium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at MOST of her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry


Mendelevium, one atom at a time
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

video Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem


Meningitis, Six Feet Under
video See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “For Far Too Many Years” (which was also read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), plus “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “Brittle”, “Meningitis, Six Feet Under”, and “Bamboo”, while she was guest-hosting the “Open Mic Showcase 8/17/19 at Recycled Reads(video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “For Far Too Many Years” (which was also read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), plus “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “Brittle”, “Meningitis, Six Feet Under”, and “Bamboo”, while she was guest-hosting the “Open Mic Showcase 8/17/19 at Recycled Reads(video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v213 11/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Distances” poems “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “quote unquote love for your government” (+ image), & “Meningitis, Six Feet Under” to close her “Poetic License video 11/5/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and 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 that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Menu Poem
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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09
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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Me or Him
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live at Mercury Cafe in Chicago 08/28/09
Listen mp3 file to this with
the Second Axing
Listen live mp3 file to the 2nd Axing
at the open mic Sing Your Life
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05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)
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of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems
video See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)


Mercury (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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te 2012 poetry bomb chapbook
Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.
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of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)
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of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 poems from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook
Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF file chapbook

the Elements of Astronomy.
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Finding Refuge” book poems “Mercury” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing show images 1 & 2) & “Mercury’s volcanic, icy re-release” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing poem image & show images 1 & 2), then her “Timepiece” book poems “Xenon” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing poem image & show images 1, 2, & 3) & “Xenon discovers dark energyvideo (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing poem image & show images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 6/2/24 global open mic” through Zoom and 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 which was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Mercury’s volcanic, icy re-release
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

video Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Finding Refuge” book poems “Mercury” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing show images 1 & 2) & “Mercury’s volcanic, icy re-release” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing poem image & show images 1 & 2), then her “Timepiece” book poems “Xenon” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing poem image & show images 1, 2, & 3) & “Xenon discovers dark energyvideo (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing poem image & show images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 6/2/24 global open mic” through Zoom and 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 which was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Mesmerizing
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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/08/09
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Metamorphosis
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanishing Scars” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, when her poem “Scars 1997” from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2”, then her new poem “Metamorphosis” live 1/26/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanishing Scars” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, when her poem “Scars 1997” from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2”, then her new poem “Metamorphosis” live 1/26/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 1/22 v317 book “The Way She Was” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/2/22 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
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 1/22 v317 book “The Way She Was” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/2/22 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, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the 1-4/22 cc&d issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 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
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the 1-4/22 cc&d issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 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


Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers
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(1:05) from the 2011 6" x 9" ISBN# book Sexism and Other Stories, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago
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of the intro to the 02/22/11 open mic at the Café Chicago, & her poetry in 2011 books, including this poem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems A Man Calls a Woman”, “In their Homes or In the Streets”, “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers”, “Most Accurate Metaphors”, “the Measuring Scale”, “Content with Inferior Men”, and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much(of poems with Farsi translations) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” 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
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems A Man Calls a Woman”, “In their Homes or In the Streets”, “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers”, “Most Accurate Metaphors”, “the Measuring Scale”, “Content with Inferior Men”, and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (of poems with Farsi translations) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” 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). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poem “Flags at Half-Mast” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (and for her 2023 “Testament” book), then her poems “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), and “from In The Air” 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 Periodic Table of Poetry poem “Selenium” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Flags at Half-Mast” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (and for her 2023 “Testament” book), then her poems “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), and “from In The Air” 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 Periodic Table poem “Selenium” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Content with Inferior Men” (plus shared the Farsi translation of the poem), “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), “Confident Women”, and “from In The Air” from the books “Unable To Escape It” and the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” on 2/1/23 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).
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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 #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling


middle eastern man in front of me
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem middle eastern man in front of me read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem middle eastern man in front of me read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery
video See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.
video See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus.
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers”, and “Outer Space and the Sound of Silence” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) for ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers”, and “Outer Space and the Sound of Silence” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “The Paths Less Traveled” book poems “Elixirs of the gods”, “Gods want their life to end”, and “Justice” (all also slated for section 2 of the CyberWit.net 2023 book “Testament”), and closing with her poem “middle eastern man in front of me” on 3/1/23 (the 1st Wednesday of the month, 1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also released as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading


Military Intelligence
video See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Intelligence, “Big Hair and Fire Don’t Mix” and “Utopia Never Happened” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Lumix).
video See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Intelligence, “Big Hair and Fire Don’t Mix” and “Utopia Never Happened” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony).


Military Police
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Fusion
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video See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Military Police” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).
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video See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Police”, “People’s Lives were at Stake” and “Lost in the Breeze” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry(filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).
video See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Police”, “People’s Lives were at Stake” and “Lost in the Breeze” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry(video filmed from a Sony camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Police”, “Get me out of this Cage”, and “a Child in the Park” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Police”, “Get me out of this Cage”, and “a Child in the Park” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).


mirror (haiku, on Twitter)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku mirror live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)
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video See YouTube video 9/27/14 of the Janet Kuypers “Partial Nudity” book release & interview on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her haiku and poetry “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “Eight People Outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “My New Grocery List”, “Couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “addiction”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio
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“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio
video See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mirror as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)
video See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mirror as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Sony)
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See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mirror from ScarsDown in the Dirt ISBN Book the Relic, the Effort, the Yell as a looping JKPoetryVine video 10/15/16 (from a Samsung at B.B. Rover’s in Austin TX)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 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”, and “couldn’t”, all from ther 2014-2015 Chicago poetry book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (PL2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 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”, and “couldn’t”, all from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (PL2500; Polarize).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 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 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 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 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJune 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 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJune 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
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her Twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her Twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her Twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her Twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her Twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her Twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her Twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her Twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video 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.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “the 2020 Poetry Review Date Book” poems “mirror”, “Opens the Way”, and “Ominous Day” 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, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “the 2020 Poetry Review Date Book” poems “mirror”, “Opens the Way”, and “Ominous Day” 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).


misogyny (haiku, on Twitter)
twitter 4 jk twitter 4 jk Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku misogyny live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku misogyny live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video 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
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video 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.
video 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.
video 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.


Missed the Clicks and Scratches
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Sony video camera
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Canon video camera
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) & “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on and for Cinco de Mayo) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) & “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on and for Cinco de Mayo) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poem “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poem “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, then it was given a Threshold filter).


mister (haiku, on Twitter)
twitter 4 jk twitter 4 jk Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mister live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mister live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 2/26/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where she also read many poems INCLUDING THIS HAIKU.
video See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem mister (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)
video See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem mister (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)
Janet Vine video See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku mister from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book The Hive as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.
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video See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “mister” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/27/16 (filmed in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).
video 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
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video 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.
video 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.
video 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.


Mixing Metaphors
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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(2:13) studio session “etc.” book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07
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(1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07
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video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v343 3/24 cc&d issue/book “Clear Lake” poems “Burning Building” (+ showing show image), “Mixing Metaphors” (+ showing show image), & “Timing is Everything” to start her videoPoetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Samsung S9 camera & GLITCH; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


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

video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (from the Canon camera)
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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (from the Sony camera)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers in her feature “In Homage” 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago, w/ her poems “Tin”, “Iron in my Eyes” and “Molybdenum” (video from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Edge Detection filter)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers in her feature “In Homage” 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago, w/ her poems “Tin”, “Iron in my Eyes” and “Molybdenum” (video from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
video See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Watercolor filter)
the 4/18/13 In Homage chapbook the 4/18/13 In Homage chapbook
Download this poem in the free chapbook
in Homage, w/ Periodic Table poems
read live 4/18/13 at Fizz bar - to a beat - in Chicago
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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem “Molybdenum” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 before her Tag Team feature reading
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of Janet Kuypers performing Periodic Table poetry to a beat in Nashville TN 5/18/13 before the Tag Team feature reading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJune 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read her poems “Neon”, “Nickel”, “Arsenic and Syphilis” and “Molybdenum” for her “the Periodic Table of Poetry” book reading @ Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJune 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read her poems “Neon”, “Nickel”, “Arsenic and Syphilis” and “Molybdenum” for her “the Periodic Table of Poetry” book reading @ Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Molybdenum” from her 4/18/13 “In Homage” poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: Self-Destructive” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book
A Year-Long Journey”, and “Opens the Way” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Molybdenum” from her 4/18/13 “In Homage” poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: Self-Destructive” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book
A Year-Long Journey”, and “Opens the Way” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v342 2/24 cc&d issue/book “A Future That Includes You” show image 1 & the poems “Yearning to Break Free” (+ show images 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8), her “Periodic Table Poetry” poem “Molybdenum” (+ images 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) and her “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poem “Molybdenum’s War Insidevideo (+ 2022 Poetry Bomb images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (ilmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Molybdenum’s War Inside poem on Facebook and Twitter
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table PoemMolybdenum’s War Inside(#42, Mo) in an outdoor amphitheater right before the first Nitzer Ebb industrial concert in Austin, TX 9/19/19, which is linked on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr (video filmed with an iPhone 10).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table PoemMolybdenum’s War Inside(#42, Mo) in an outdoor amphitheater right before the first Nitzer Ebb industrial concert in Austin, TX 9/19/19, which is linked on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr (this video was filmed with an iPhone 10 and given a Hue Cycling filter).
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Niobium’s Demise”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets”, “Molybdenum’s War Inside”, “Technetium’s Inner Glow”, “Ruthenium for Free”, “Rhodium’s Flava Flav”, “Palladium, Ouro Podre”, “Silver from Vegas”, “Cadmium and Cancer”, “Indium, trying to get through”, “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley”, and “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Niobium’s Demise”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets”, “Molybdenum’s War Inside”, “Technetium’s Inner Glow”, “Ruthenium for Free”, “Rhodium’s Flava Flav”, “Palladium, Ouro Podre”, “Silver from Vegas”, “Cadmium and Cancer”, “Indium, trying to get through”, “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley”, and “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v342 2/24 cc&d issue/book “A Future That Includes You” show image 1 & the poems “Yearning to Break Free” (+ show images 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8), her “Periodic Table Poetry” poem “Molybdenum” (+ images 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) and her “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poem “Molybdenum’s War Insidevideo (+ 2022 Poetry Bomb images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (ilmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Momento Mori
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video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading All I Can Capture and Momento Mori live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (these videos were posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry


Mommy’s Not Leaving

Money Became an Abstract

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video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Twitterati” her poems “Poverty in America”, “Oklahoma water-surfing”, “Zach makes me Think about these Things”, “Mechanical Soldiers”, “Fingers Black”, “You Cannot Burn Me”, “Opening Our Own Doors”, “Guantanamo Bay”, “Even if the Pope Claims It”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “From Words to Wars”, “Money Became an Abstract”, “Where does the Love Go”, “Spent”, and “Cast in Stone” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).


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Moonlight
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video See YouTube video from 5/27/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)”, “Statue” and “Moonlight” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (filmed with a Lumix camera).
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video 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
video See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’s the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “With You” {edited for this live reading}, “Moonlight” and “Sometimes It’s Not”, all from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v1” during Thom’s multi-person intro 6/24/18 to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “With You” {edited for this live reading}, “Moonlight” and “Sometimes It’s Not”, all from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v1” during Thom’s multi-person intro 6/24/18 to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “With You” {edited for this live reading}, “Moonlight” and “Sometimes It’s Not”, all from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v1” during Thom’s multi-person intro 6/24/18 to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “With You” {edited for this live reading}, “Moonlight” and “Sometimes It’s Not”, all from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v1” during Thom’s multi-person intro 6/24/18 to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Black & White filter).
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “With You” {edited for this live reading}, “Moonlight” and “Sometimes It’s Not”, all from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v1” during Thom’s multi-person intro 6/24/18 to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, reading her poems “Moonlight”, “There I Sit”, and “Writing Your Name” from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the second poem she ever wrote, “Moonlight”, and her poems &“Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16/19 on the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) and “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the 2011 launch date of the Last Space Shuttle Mission, + showing the Twitter, Instagram, and tumblr image for the poem), live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the second poem she ever wrote, “Moonlight”, and her poems &“Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16/19 on the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) and “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the 2011 launch date of the Last Space Shuttle Mission, + showing the Twitter, Instagram, and tumblr image for the poem), live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia tone).
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video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers finalé feature “Night Sky” at the 2019 Texas Night Sky Festival in Driftwood, TX 11/14/19, reading her astronomy-themed poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Earthrise”, (from) “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Orion (2019 edit)”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, (from) “Universe... Now in Color”, (from) “Queen of the Night Sky”, and (from) “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”, all with John on guitar (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facbook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers finalé feature &“Night Sky” at the 2019 Texas Night Sky Festival in Driftwood, TX 11/14/19, reading her astronomy-themed poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Earthrise”, (from) “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Orion (2019 edit)”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, (from) “Universe... Now in Color”, (from) “Queen of the Night Sky”, and (from) “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”, all with John on guitar (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facbook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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video 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
video 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
video 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
video 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).


More Believable That Way
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Orion”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, and “Universe... Now in Color” in the “Night Sky” section, and her poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering” in the Public Access Poetry section, of the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” for The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Orion”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, and “Universe... Now in Color” in the “Night Sky” section, and her poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering” in the Public Access Poetry section, of the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).


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


Moros y Christianos
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video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry


from the poems about mom - more than stories
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More than we Should Have
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of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera)
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video video See Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)
video See YouTube video of this poem read 11/21/11 at Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus)
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “More than we Should have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor show, her poem “Have you Ever Had” from her “new year’s unplugged show, then her poem“Writing Your Name” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, live 9/8/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “More than we Should have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor show, her poem “Have you Ever Had” from her “new year’s unplugged show, then her poem“Writing Your Name” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, live 9/8/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, both read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” @ “Recycled Reads” 12/15/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, both read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” @ “Recycled Reads” 12/15/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).
seeing things differently Listen mp3 file to this from the CD release from her first performance art show“ Seeing Things Differently” 8/14/97, or order this track - or any track - off the CD through iTunes.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How to Please a Woman” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and then her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads(Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How to Please a Woman” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “More than we Should Have” from her “the Cutting Room Floor” show, and then her poem “Everyone Else Does It” from her “Death & Rebirth” show, all performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads(Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia).
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “More than we Should Have”, her bonus poem “The Truth is Out There”, “Andrew Hettinger”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/13/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “More than we Should Have”, her bonus poem “The Truth is Out There”, “Andrew Hettinger”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 4/13/21 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
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v215 2/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Where Icarus Went” poems “Expecting the Stoning” (+ show image), “Let the War Begin” (+ show image), & “Moonlight” (+ show images 1,2, 3, 4, & 5) video during her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed 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 that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


More Whiskey Sours
More Whiskey Sours - in Hungarian
video See YouTube video of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo
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morning

Morning Will Be Kind
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Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09
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Moscovium and aliens: the truth isn’t out there
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video Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem


from poems on religion - Most Accurate Metaphors
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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10
40 chapbook
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of part two of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10
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of part 2 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10
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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.
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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.
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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories
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1:37, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories
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to Michael Hoag read this poem 11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems A Man Calls a Woman”, “In their Homes or In the Streets”, “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers”, “Most Accurate Metaphors”, “the Measuring Scale”, “Content with Inferior Men”, and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much(of poems with Farsi translations) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” 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
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems A Man Calls a Woman”, “In their Homes or In the Streets”, “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers”, “Most Accurate Metaphors”, “the Measuring Scale”, “Content with Inferior Men”, and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (of poems with Farsi translations) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” 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). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Measuring Scale” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing the Farsi translation of poem) from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (that also appears in her CyberWit.net poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video Enjoy this YouTube video was also filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersbookreading


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


Mother’s Day 2012
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of this poem performed live at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12
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of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12


motions on the planet
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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unpluggedshow and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Insideshow and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’s Rebirthshow and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unpluggedshow and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Insideshow and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’ Rebirthshow and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).


Motorcycle
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]
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(:52, on a motorcycle in Chicago 06/10/07)
the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Queen ISIS”, “Motorcycle” and “They Called It Trust” 8/14/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Queen ISIS”, “Motorcycle” and “They Called It Trust” 8/14/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera w/ a Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Queen ISIS”, “Motorcycle” and “They Called It Trust” 8/14/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Sony camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Queen ISIS”, “Motorcycle” and “They Called It Trust” 8/14/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera w/ an Edge Detection filter).


Motorcycle (1996 edit)
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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem Motorcycle (edited) at the open mike 7/21/14 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago
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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem Motorcycle (edited) at the open mike 7/21/14 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago
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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading 3 poems - INCLUDING THIS POEM - 7/21/14 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus
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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading 3 poems - INCLUDING THIS POEM - 7/21/14 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus


much (haiku, on Twitter)
twitter 4 jk twitter 4 jk Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku much live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku much live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Deborah Rosen feature 4/9/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago WITH THIS HAIKU
Janet Vine video See Vine video of Janet Kuypers
haiku much from ScarsDown in the Dirt issues book the Intersection
(Samsung 11/20/15)
video See YouTube video 3/5/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poemmuch” during the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
video See YouTube video 3/5/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 haiku poems “much”, “need” and “essence”w/ people on stage during the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypershaiku
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video 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
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Mulberry Zoo
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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone
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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone
video See YouTube video of Kuypers’ “Airport Phonecall” reading (which includes this poem) 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers’ “Airport Phonecall” reading (which includes this poem) 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)
video See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/24/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)


much (haiku, on Twitter)
twitter 4 jk twitter 4 jk Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku much live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku much live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize)
Janet Vine video See Vine video of Janet Kuypers
haiku much from ScarsDown in the Dirt issues book the Intersection
(Samsung 11/20/15)
video See YouTube video 3/5/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poemmuch” during the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
video See YouTube video 3/5/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 haiku poems “much”, “need” and “essence”w/ people on stage during the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry


from the poems about mom - musical
This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in
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My
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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)
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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)
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video Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video of Disenfranchised Doggerel, Janet Kuypers’ show at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe (from camera #1 ), which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature
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(:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)
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My Attempted Death
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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)
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video See YouTube video live at the end of the Cousin Bones finalé song 11/06/10 at Lake Villa’s Swing State


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


My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)
video See YouTube video from 5/27/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)”, “Statue” and “Moonlight” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (filmed with a Lumix camera).
video See YouTube video from 5/27/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)”, “Statue” and “Moonlight” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (filmed with a Sony camera).
video See YouTube video from 6/3/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)” after her poetry feature “Meant to do Big Things” in Austin’s the Bahá’í Faith Center (this video was filmed with a Sony camera).
video See YouTube video from 6/3/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)” after her poetry feature “Meant to do Big Things” in Austin’s the Bahá’í Faith Center (this video was filmed with a Lumix camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, with “Only Half the Story”, “lost”, “rush”, & “you were meant” from the Down in the Dirt 1/18 book “Farewell to Seafaring”, then her poem “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)” from the cc&d 1/18 book “the End of the World” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, with “Only Half the Story”, “lost”, “rush”, & “you were meant” from the Down in the Dirt 1/18 book “Farewell to Seafaring”, then her poem “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)” from the cc&d 1/18 book “the End of the World” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).


My Blood
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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)
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(:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)
video 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).
video 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).


My Dead Daughter
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My Father, Shooting an Animal
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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(1:57) 06/15/07, at Buffalo Bill’s Grave at Lookout Mountain in Golden, CO
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read from the book the Window live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Father, Shooting an Animal” and “What It Felt Like” and “Once Wanted You as my Friend” (read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (from a Panasonic Lumix camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Father, Shooting an Animal” and “What It Felt Like” and “Once Wanted You as my Friend” (read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (video filmed from a Sony camera).


My First Time
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written & read 06/07/11, live at the Café
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not yet rated video (21:47) of Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café
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of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems
video See YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach
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video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading.
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3/4/18 reading her poems “My First Time” and “Worn Out” from her book “Let me See You Stripped”, then covering the Feedback song “Devotion” with John on acoustic guitar live at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3/4/18 reading her poems “My First Time” and “Worn Out” from her book “Let me See You Stripped”, then covering the Feedback song “Devotion” with John on acoustic guitar live at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).


My Future Job Options
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live at the Café in Chicago 02/09/10
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live at the Café in Chicago 05/04/10
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of the Janet Kuypers poem My Future Job Options & the Irene Ferraro poem White Moth & the Dina Stuart poem the Mess, at the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 05/04/10
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1:11, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories
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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories
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video See 3/4/18 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Future Job Options”, “Us, Actually Touching” and “Everyone Has a Choice” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads(Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See 3/4/18 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Future Job Options”, “Us, Actually Touching” and “Everyone Has a Choice” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads(Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage”, “A Little Angel Inside”, and “My Future Job Options” live 5/14/18 at the Austin Buzz Mill open mic (Panasonic Lumix T56).
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My Height Any Longer
the poetry 2 CD setCHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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My Kind of Town
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)
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video See YouTube video of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece
video See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Kind of Town 8/19/13 at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago (Canon)
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon, Film Age - Older)
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading poems Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Samsung)
video See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading poems Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 connectivity poems “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “My Kind of Town” and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” 10/16/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Sony camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 connectivity poems “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “My Kind of Town” and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” 10/16/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ “Lengthy World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Freedom just past the Fence”, “My Kind of Town”, “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, “The Little Differences” and an edited “Communication 2012” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ “Lengthy World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Freedom just past the Fence”, “My Kind of Town”, “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, “The Little Differences” and an edited “Communication 2012” (this video was fiolmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video 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 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersmusic
video 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 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Revealed”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Revealed”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending NowEternal Bever Ending Now from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”, “My Kind of Town”, “Communication 2012”, and “Holmium” from the v324 cc&d book “Into the Surf” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”, “My Kind of Town”, “Communication 2012”, and “Holmium” from the v324 cc&d book “Into the Surf” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Animal Tales” 2022 book feature poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” and her “JK with HA” show poems “My Kind of Town” and “Communication 2012” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, video Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading


My Kind of Town (The Universe is in your Hands edit)

My Life Changing
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08


my love for you will stay the same - a song
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video See this YouTube video of part three of the Janet Kuypers Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 in Logan Square, reading her poem “Loss” and singing her Mom’s Favorite Vase song my love for you will stay the same” with John on guitar (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperssinging
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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10
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(4:06) live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10
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video See Janet KuypersYouTube video w/ John on guitar singing Peter Gabriel’s song Washing of the Water, then her Mom’s Favorite Vase song my love for you will stay the same, then Ani DeFranco’s song I am Not a Pretty Girl at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s open mic 2/28/16 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See Janet KuypersYouTube video w/ John on guitar singing Peter Gabriel’s song Washing of the Water, then her Mom’s Favorite Vase song my love for you will stay the same, then Ani DeFranco’s song I am Not a Pretty Girl at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s open mic 2/28/16 (this video was filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s The Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s The Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar) performing 2 songs 6/10/16 at Georgetown’s PoetryPlus, covering Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Life by the Drop, The The’s Love is Stronger than Death, and her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same (Canon Power Shot).
video See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar) performing 2 songs 6/10/16 at Georgetown’s PoetryPlus, covering Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Life by the Drop, The The’s Love is Stronger than Death, and her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same (Sony camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Smoking Popes song “I Need You Around”, Paul Simon’s song “Kodachrome” and Janet KuypersMom’s Favorite Vase song “My Love for You will Stay the Same” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Smoking Popes song “I Need You Around”, Paul Simon’s song “Kodachrome” and Janet KuypersMom’s Favorite Vase song “My Love for You will Stay the Same” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from a table; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie”. (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from the bar; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask”, with ‘books’ for ‘bombs’ lyrics changes (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold filter.)
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize filter.)
video See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Edge Detection filter.)
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her poem “What Have I Won” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, “Drinking Their Life Away”, “Labeled Me Again”, “Prefer Things Soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit me Out”, and “Painted Buddhas”, and then she sang her song “My Love For You Will Stay the Same” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her poem “What Have I Won” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, “Drinking Their Life Away”, “Labeled Me Again”, “Prefer Things Soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit me Out”, and “Painted Buddhas”, and then she sang her song “My Love For You Will Stay the Same” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her poem “What Have I Won” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, “Drinking Their Life Away”, “Labeled Me Again”, “Prefer Things Soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit me Out”, and “Painted Buddhas”, and then she sang her song “My Love For You Will Stay the Same” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her poem “What Have I Won” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, “Drinking Their Life Away”, “Labeled Me Again”, “Prefer Things Soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit me Out”, and “Painted Buddhas”, and then she sang her song “My Love For You Will Stay the Same” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, Posterize).


My Lunchtime Dream

My Memorials To You
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Memorials to You 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).
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from the poems about mom -
My MotherMy MotherMy Mother
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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(2:22) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03
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Order this iTunes track: Janet Kuypers - The Chaotic Collection #01-05 - My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from the Close Cover Before Striking book reading, or order this iTunes track: Janet Kuypers - The Chaotic Collection #01-05 - My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from the Slate & Marrow book reading, on Chaotic Radio’s 5 CD set the Chaotic Collection
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)
video 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
video 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
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My Mother My Mother My Mother” on Mother’s Day from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/10/20 as a “Poetic Licensehome edition bonus reading through a Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My Mother My Mother My Mother” on Mother’s Day from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/10/20 as a “Poetic Licensehome edition bonus reading (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).


My New Grocery List (twitter-length poem)
twitter 4 jk twitter 4 jk Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My New Grocery List live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C)
video 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 performing many poems, including this one (Canon)
the 9/27/12 6 Second Poems chapbook Get this poem in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio
video See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem My New Grocery List as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200, video flipped and saturated)
video See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem My New Grocery List as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)


my room

My Second Marriage

This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Listen live mp3 file from the 03/03/02 CD
& the Chicago 09/10/02 performance
art show Stop. Look. Listen.
Fusion Listen: (3:40) mp3 file to this recording from the poetry (with eclectic jazz music from Madison WI) CD set Fusion
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C, edge d.)
video See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery, (S, Threshold)


My Turn
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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live, the Cafe 09/09/08, Chicago


My Wishes Come True







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