Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

Packing
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[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

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See YouTube video (:59) read from the book Living in a Big World, live 12/14/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of the intro and the poems “Packing”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Tribal Scream” read live 12/14/10 from the open mic at the Café in Chicago (on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery

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

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

Pain Is Weakness/Pain Is A Crutch

Painted Buddhas

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

See YouTube video Live at Twtter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

See this YouTube video of part two of the Janet Kuypers Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 in Logan Square, with her poems “labeled me again”, “prefer things soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit Me Out”, “Painted Buddhas”, and “Swallowing Sand & Pebbles” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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read live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Painted Buddhas in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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

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w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video from 11/27/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “Painted Buddhas” during Thom’s intro performance @ the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video (Sony) 11/27/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “Painted Buddhas” during Thom’s intro performance @ the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

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

See this YouTube video (posted 5/31/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems ““that’s from the barbed wire””, “the Cycle of Life”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/31/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 6/7/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems ““that’s from the barbed wire””, “the Cycle of Life”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 6/7/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like I Was Never There”, “Don’t Go To Denny’s”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like I Was Never There”, “Don’t Go To Denny’s”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

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

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

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

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

Palladium, Ouro Podre poem on Facebook and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Palladium, Ouro Podre” (#46, Pd) 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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Palladium, Ouro Podre” (#46, Pd), and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, before singing an altered chorus of her song “In Love I Abide” as the ending to her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”
(PL2500, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Palladium, Ouro Podre” (#46, Pd), and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, before singing an altered chorus of her song “In Love I Abide” as the ending to her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”
(PL T56, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

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 Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

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 Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

pant (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku pant in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

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of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (C, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “pant” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v140 issue book “the Bridge” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/17/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX @ B.B. Rover’s on a Galaxy S7).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Nerves of a Poet” show poems “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, then her “6 second poems” show poem “eight people outside”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” during the Thom multi-person intro to the “Spoken & Heard” open mic 11/4/18 @ Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

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

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

Panther

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing poetry in part 2 of the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe, which contains this and additional poems

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Experimental Poetry: Paper

Paranoia

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(1:54) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World

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The “Living in a Big World” show with this poem in it was also released as a FULL COLOR paperback ISBN# book so come here for all of the imagery that accompanied this and other poems in “Living in a Big World” at amazon!

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the Waiting4the Bus open mic in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the Waiting4the Bus open mic in Chicago (from the Samsung camera)

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

Part of my Pain (from the “this poem is about...” series)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Part of my Pain live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Part of my Pain live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Part of my Pain” (from her book “Part of My Pain”), and (read together) “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)” and “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)” 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony).

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

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

Passed Away

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llive 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

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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

See YouTube video 11/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Anderson”, “Passed Away”, and “Depth of Field” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

PDQ in Tin Foil

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of Janet Kuypers said her poem “PDQ in Tin Foil” in conversation, during the fourth round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (Canon Power Shot camera).

PDQ in Tin Foil 2015

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

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

Download these poems in the free chapbook
Poetic Shades of Chocolate

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “PDQ in Tin Foil (2015 edit)” from her show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate”, then her poems, “Open Book” and “Electromagnetism” from her show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

People Forget Politics

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quenched Bloodlust” (for 11/20, on and for the date the Nuremberg trials began), “Extension of “Him”” (written 11/21, on and for the 1929 birthday of feminist writer Marilyn French), and “People Forget Politics” (written 11/22, on and for the 1963 day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 11/17/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Extension of “Him””, and “People Forget Politics” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 11/17/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opened the Door for All” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 cc&d v315 issue/book “Down and Inside”, then reading her poems “Judged on Looks” and “People Forget Politics” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 Down in the Dirt v189 book “A Door Is A Door Is A Door” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opened the Door for All” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 cc&d v315 issue/book “Down and Inside”, then reading her poems “Judged on Looks” and “People Forget Politics” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 Down in the Dirt v189 book “A Door Is A Door Is A Door” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Triangle filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opened the Door for All” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 cc&d v315 issue/book “Down and Inside”, then reading her poems “Judged on Looks” and “People Forget Politics” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 Down in the Dirt v189 book “A Door Is A Door Is A Door” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opened the Door for All” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 cc&d v315 issue/book “Down and Inside”, then reading her poems “Judged on Looks” and “People Forget Politics” from the Scars Publi cations November 2021 Down in the Dirt v189 book “A Door Is A Door Is A Door” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “People Forget Politics”, “Exploring Evolution”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia” 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; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “People Forget Politics”, “Exploring Evolution”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 collection book “Regarding Utopia” 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 (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

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

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

People’s Lives Were at Stake
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem People’s Lives were at Stake live 8/28/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “People’s Lives were at Stake” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (Sony).

See YouTube video 7/23/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “People’s Lives were at Stake” at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well”, then sing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on acoustic guitar, then read her poem “People’s Lives Were at Stake”, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” to a live audience for National poetry Month (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Content with Inferior Men” and “People’s Lives were at Stake” from her poetry show “Questions in a World Without Answers”, then her poem “Tall Man” from her poetry show “How Do I Get There?”, all from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v1” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (PL T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12^th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13^th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14^th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24^th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29^th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29^th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12^th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13^th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14^th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24^th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29^th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29^th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

People’s Rights Misunderstood

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem People’s Rights Misunderstood from the collection book Oeuvre live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem People’s Rights Misunderstood from the collection book Oeuvre live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S, with the Film Age - Older filter)

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Transcribing Dreams Three”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood” and “Dreams 01/28/07 (Seeing Mom)” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poems “The State of the Nation”, “The Deep End”, and “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” during “Poetry Aloud” to a live audience (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

from the poems about mom - perfect

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

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video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

Perversion

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

See YouTube video from 8/28/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Excuses for Skipping Work”, “Without Religion” and “Perversion” @ Austin’s open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

pet (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

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

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

Philosopher at the Blue Note
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Precinct Fourteen, Philosopher at the Blue Note and newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems
“Knelt and Cried”, “Philosopher at the Blue Note” and “I Started Writing This Poem When”
at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Lumix).

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

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

Phobos Fears his Future

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Phobos Fears his Future” (written for the 8/18/1877 discovery of Mars’ moon Phobos by Asaph Hall at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.), and her haiku “unsung” (written 8/19, on and for World Humanitarian Day), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Phobos Fears his Future” (written for the 8/18/1877 discovery of Mars’ moon Phobos by Asaph Hall at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.), and her haiku “unsung” (written 8/19, on and for World Humanitarian Day), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (this video was filmed Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 1-4/24 “The Limits of Language” & “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” book poems “Jupiter Revealing Neptune” & “Phobos Fears his Future” (as the second poem was edited into “Phobos Fears the Dread Deimos Knows” for

inclusion in the Summer 2024 release of the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) during her “Poetic License 6/2/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Phobos Fears the Dread Deimos Knows

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v224 10/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Fall Rituals” & the CyberWit Summer 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poems “Edge of that Massive Impact” (+ showing a Meteor Crater image), “Phobos Fears the Dread Deimos Knows”, & “Our Interlocked Dance with the Moon” during her

“Poetic License 10/6/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Tw itter/X, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed with a Samsung S9 camera and given an oversun filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Phosphine for Venus: virility vs. volcanism
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Aluminum Becomes Priceless”, “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling”, “Phosphorus Balance”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphine for Venus: virility vs. volcanism”, “Sulfur, Suddenly”, “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad”, “Argon like my Exes”, “Potassium and Chef Boyardee”, “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat”, “Calcium: voltage to the brain”, and “Calcium can be good for the o-zone too” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Aluminum Becomes Priceless”, “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling”, “Phosphorus Balance”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphine for Venus: virility vs. volcanism”, “Sulfur, Suddenly”, “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad”, “Argon like my Exes”, “Potassium and Chef Boyardee”, “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat”, “Calcium: voltage to the brain”, and “Calcium can be good for the o-zone too” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphorus”, and “White Phosphorus” from the Scars Publi cations 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphorus”, and “White Phosphorus” from the Scars Publi cations 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, and “Phosphorus” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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

Phosphorus Balance poem on Facebook and Twitter

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).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “xtc from Found “Candy”” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdo wn’s Over” at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was originally filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a triangle, then released given a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “xtc from Found “Candy”” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdo wn’s Over” at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “xtc from Found “Candy”” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdo wn’s Over” at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a triangle filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “xtc from Found “Candy”” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdo wn’s Over” at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Phosphorus: Strike That, Red poem on Facebook and Twitter

Phosphorus: Willie Pete poem on Facebook and Twitter

Photograph, Nineteenth Century
2012 translation of Photograph, Nineteenth Century - in Slovak: fotografia, devätnáste storočie”
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
electronic translations [in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

the poetry audio CD set “Hope Chest in the Attic”

Order this iTunes track
from the poetry audio CD
Hope Chest In The Attic
13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order
the entire CD set from iTunes:

the poetry audio CD set “Live at the Cafe”

Listen

Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set
bonus track from Molly Malone’s

See YouTube video

Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

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from the Chaotic Collection

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See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Photograph, Nineteenth Century”, “On An Airplane with a Frequent Flyer” and “Some People Want to Believe” from “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Photograph, Nineteenth Century” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” (that also appears in the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks”), plus her new poems “Only Considering Women’s Rights” and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” to close her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she close through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Photograph, Nineteenth Century” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” (that also appears in the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks”), plus her new poems “Only Considering Women’s Rights” and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” to close her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she close through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Room of The Rape”, “White Knuckled” + showing its Slovak translation, “Women’s Very Existence” + showing its Slovak translation, “Domestic Violence in America, Nashville, Tennessee (stick)” + showing its Slovak translation, “Thank You, Women who Work I” + showing its Slovak translation, and “Photograph, Nineteenth Century” + showing its Slovak translation from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/22 issue collection book “The Paths Less Traveled” and her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” on 1/4/23, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This YouTube video was also filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; both were posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Photo Studio Packages

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

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

Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas 09/11/06

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas from her 2014 poetry book Revealed at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus poetry open mic 8/18/14 (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas from her 2014 poetry book Revealed at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus poetry open mic 8/18/14 (S)

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

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

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

Pickle History was No Matter

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

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

Pinchy

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago, w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

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

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

Pistol Case (from the “Depression... The singlesy” series)

Pioneer
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

See YouTube video of her reading Pioneer 08/21/11 at the last 2011 Chicago Beach Poets Loyola Beach open mike

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Pioneer live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Pioneer live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Pioneer” (Lumix camera) at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud”.

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Pioneer” (Sony camera) at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem “choice” from her photo/journal/poetry book “Bon Voyage!”, then her poem “Pioneer” from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 3/24/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Planting Palm Tree Seeds

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

Download poems in the free chapbook
Farewell Chicago

of this & other poems read 8/14/15 at a live Chicago show

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Planting Palm Tree Seeds”, “You Moved from Island to Island” and “erasure poem: the Meaning of Art” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Lumix).

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

See YouTube video
of this Kuypers reading the poem live 1/26/13 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon),
with music from the HA!Man of South Africa
(2011 Hotel music “the Ice is Melting”)

Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video live 1/26/13 of Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poetry in “Periodic Prep for Radio Poetry” on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, read to music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video 1/26/13 of Kuypers reading 8 Periodic Table poems (including this poem) on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Samsung), with the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting playing

See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s “Wayward Waltz of the Fractured Wind” (filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v348 8/24 cc&d issue/book “Pandora’s Box” book poems “Platinum” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”, + showing the WZRD image & Poetry Saloon at Noon image),

& “Platinum, stronger than love?” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” + showing the poem image & 3/30/22 lava show image) during her “Poetic License 8/4/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Color Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Platinum, stronger than love?
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

Pleading (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

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

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Pleading as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon fs200 camera, heat wave filter)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Pleading as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon fs200 camera, video flipped)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her haiku poems “defenses”, “pleading”, “destroy”, “relegated”, “jumped”, “found haiku”, “instead”, “falling”, “upturn”, “sort”, and “love”, all from her poetry performance art collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).

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

from the plush horse stories - please drive through

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

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

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

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

Pleasure and Pain
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Pleiades

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the new poem Pleiades 1/20/14 at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the new poem Pleiades 1/20/14 at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Posterized video)

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

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

Plot and Wait poem on Instagram and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, then her 2019 poems “Easier and Easier” and “Plot and Wait”,, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, then her 2019 poems “Easier and Easier” and “Plot and Wait”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

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

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

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

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “nonetheless”, “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Plot and Wait”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the “a Stretch of Highway” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “nonetheless”, “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Plot and Wait”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the “a Stretch of Highway” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Pluto, Plutonium & Death (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin, first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperssinging

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin, first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Love in the Universe
5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her twitter-length poem “Juxtaposition, or Irony?” in conversation, then reading her poems “Pluto, Plutonium & Death”, “Your Minions are Dying” and “Salesman” 10/23/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Entering the Lake of Fire”, “Pluto, Plutonium & Death” and “Everything is my Home” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 8/6/17 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (Sony camera).

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

See YouTube video

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)

See YouTube video

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)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 poems (inlcuding this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

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

Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF flie chapbook
the Elements of Astronomy.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Plutonium#8221; live 2/23/14 at her “Chemistry, Poetry, and a Brat” feature reading in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop, with an audience including both chemists and teachers requesting the elements poems (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pint erest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Plutonium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Hue Cycle)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic/font>

Plutonium: Badder than the Fat Man
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Plutonium (pee-eew)
Twitter-length poem on Facebook and Twitter

Plutonium: the Fat Man on the Scene
poem from the Periodic Table in Twitter, on Facebook and Twitter)

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uranium Flexing” (written 8/6, on the calendar day in 1945 the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Hiroshima), “Plutonium: the Fat Man on the Scene” (written 8/9, on the 1945 calendar day the Fat Man atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Nagasaki), and “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uranium Flexing” (written 8/6, on the calendar day in 1945 the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Hiroshima), “Plutonium: the Fat Man on the Scene” (written 8/9, on the 1945 calendar day the Fat Man atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Nagasaki), & “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day; poem reading cut off in video), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

poam: a conversation with Jimbo Breen

See YouTube video (1:31) at a pool 06/16/07
in Denver, Colorado

See YouTube video (1:11) live 04/12/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 4/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, including the Janet Kuypers poems “Raking Leaves”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen”, and “Twin”, read from the ISBN# paperback book “The Window” ... Then her reading the poem “the Big Bang” by Joy Davis from the April 2011 issue v219 of cc&d magazine... Then her singing / covering with John the song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime”, a song written in 1925 (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading her poem 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading her poem 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

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

See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Burning”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen” and “Two Not Mute Haikus” from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Poam: Militant Man with Schizophrenia

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/31/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, inlcuding this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Poam: Militant Man with Schizophrenia 6/15/15 at Waiting4the Bus (at Powell’s) in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Poam: Militant Man with Schizophrenia 6/15/15 at Waiting4the Bus (at Powell’s) in Chicago (post.)

pock-marked molehills

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See YouTube video 9/12/15 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 9/12/1 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (from a Canon Power Shot, w/ a heat wave filter).

pocket knife

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live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach poets
See entire performance video, which contains this poem

(25:19) This film is from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video
of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

Enjoy this feature YouTube video from 9/3/11 of the Janet Kuypers mini-feature (with this poem) at Café Mestizo in Pilsen (Chicago), of poems from her book Contents Under Pressure for a later audio CD release, plus singing a bonus poem as the finalé with John on guitar (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging

Poem About This (on Twitter and Instagram)

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Poem About This”, “Frozen Together” and her prose poem “Hurry Up and Wait”, then reading a portion of her short story “Crazy” at “Recycled Reads” in Austin(from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video from 4/22/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Poem About This” and “Last Before Extinction” at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (from a Lumix camera).

See YouTube video from 4/22/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Poem About This” and “Last Before Extinction” at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 5/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “xeric”, “quarrel” and “Poem About This” in the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (Sony).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she first read her haiku “He’s An Escapist” from the 4/18 book “War of Water” from cc&d, then she read her Down in the Dirt 3/18 book “My Name Is Nobody” haiku and short poems “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, before reading her longer poem “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 7/4/18 of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “You Were Meant”, “enemy”, “A Happy Ending to Everything”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video from 7/4/18 of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “You Were Meant”, “enemy”, “A Happy Ending to Everything”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 12/2/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Only Voice he could Hear”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, and “Poem About This”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Accept Apart” at the “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 cam).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her haiku “of his thirst”, then her “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” show poems “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Spring edit)”, “Violations Tested”, & “Poem About This”, all from the cc&d 3&4 2019 v289 book “Equal”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her haiku “of his thirst”, then her “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” show poems “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Spring edit)”, “Violations Tested”, & “Poem About This”, all from the cc&d 3&4 2019 v289 book “Equal”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry on a Stick

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Poetry on a Stick” (written for National Something on a Stick Day), “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, and “Unchecked Electricity”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

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

See YouTube video 8/17/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opens the Way” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain” and from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” as the intro poem for her guest-hosting the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads, then also read her poem “Poetry on a Stick” from the Down in the Dirt 2019 issue collection book “The Flickering Light” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

from the poems about mom - Poker Face

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

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

Political Merry-Go-Round

See YouTube video from 3/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “I’m A Record Now” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

Hear SoundCloud audio of Janet Kuypers sharing her poetry from her two

books, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” and “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” (w/ her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Earth was Crying”, “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go-Round”, “Ernesto”, “Endings Bring Light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together”) in her Chicago 88.3 FM WZRD Radio interview 8/26/17, Part 1.

See YouTube video of part 1 of the Janet Kuypers interview on

WZRD 88.3 FM Chicago Radio 8/24/17, with her reading poetry from her two books “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” and “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, including “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Earth was Crying”, “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go-Round”, “Ernesto”, “Endings Bring Light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” (Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio #janetkuyperschicago

See YouTube video of part 1 of the Janet Kuypers interview on

WZRD 88.3 FM Chicago Radio 8/24/17, with her reading poetry from her two books “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” and “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, including “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Earth was Crying”, “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go-Round”, “Ernesto”, “Endings Bring Light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” (Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio #janetkuyperschicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “Ernesto” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/23/17 at Waukegan (IL) Beach (video filmed from a Sony camera).

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

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

Polluted by Plastics and Politicians

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S) at her interview & reading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (Sony, Watercolor filter) at her interview & reading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (Sony, Posterize filter) at her interview & reading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ interview and her reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 8/28/13 feature Interview to Poetry at Poetry Saloon at Noon (in the Lerner Auditorium at the Sulzer Public Library) where throughout the hour-long interview she also read her Periodic Table poems “Cerium”, “Fermium”, and “Polonium” (all read to music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel Music), and she later also read her poems “Too Far” and “Death Takes Many forms.”, and finished the show with Janet Kuypers singing her Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What we Need in Life” with John on guitar (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinterview

Download this free chapbook
“Interview to Poetry”,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems chapbook
of poems performed during this hour-long event.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Polonium” from her 1/30/13 Poetry Saloon at Noon poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: a Man Calls a Woman” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Polonium” from her 1/30/13 Poetry Saloon at Noon poetry feature, and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: a Man Calls a Woman” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v222 8/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “A Night Shadow” book poems “Polonium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”, + showing show images 1 & 2), “Polonium: choose your fate, cancer or radiation” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” + showing the poem image & 3/30/22 show image), & “Polonium-210, with sparks flying” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” + showing the show image) during her “Poetic License 8/4/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page

(filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Color Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Polonium: choose your fate, cancer or radiation
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Polonium-210, with sparks flying
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Polymath in the Making

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

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

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

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

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Exude More in Black”, “Every Heartbeat”,“Entering the Lake of Fire”, “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, “Polymath in the Making”, “ Vacuum of Space”, and “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the cc&d October 2021 v314 issue/paperback book “Nihilism for Dummies” 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

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Exude More in Black”, “Every Heartbeat”,“Entering the Lake of Fire”, “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, “Polymath in the Making”, “ Vacuum of Space”, and “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the cc&d October 2021 v314 issue/paperback book “Nihilism for Dummies” 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

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, and “Polymath in the Making” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, and “Polymath in the Making” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 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

Pool Together Our Money

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poor (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs200, FlCrSat)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

See YouTube video
7/25/15 of Janet Kuypers interviewed and reading poetry on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed from a Canon fs200 video camera), WHICH CONTAINS HER READING THIS POEM

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku poor, from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 Jul.-Dec. issues book the Intersection (filmed 11/30/15 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

Pork Skins (twitter-length poem)

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

Pop a Pill

See YouTube video of John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem (from the book Contents Under Pressure) live 09/13/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video as Bob Rashkow reads 2 of Janet Kuypers’ poems, “Ways to Spend Your Money” and “Pop a Pill” in Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret 9/2/15 in Chicago

popular and useless

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (extreme sestina variation)” & “Observer’s Love Poem” from her chapbook “Eleven”, and then her eleven-themed new poem “popular and useless” (with a selfie with the audience) live 6/10/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky”, “popular and useless”, and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Scars Publi cations 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky”, “popular and useless”, and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Scars Publi cations 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky” and “popular and useless” from the Scars Publi cations Down in the Dirt magazine 1-4/22 issue collection book “The Ice that Was” to close her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky” and “popular and useless” from the Scars Publi cations Down in the Dirt magazine 1-4/22 issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

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

See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Lights on our Insides” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems from the books “Claustro phobia” and “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” and “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ shared the image for this poem), then her “Floating Island” book poems “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (which is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) and “Potassium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her January-April 2023 cc&d issue collection book “A Mural of a Forest” poems “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ image) & “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (which are both also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her January-April 2023 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Forbidden Library” poems “Potassium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee”, & “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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

Potassium and Chef Boyardee poem on Facebook and Twitter

Potassium Chloride (bonus haiku from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her Periodic Table bonus poem Potassium Chloride live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her Periodic Table bonus poem Potassium Chloride live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, Edge Det. filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems Arsenic and Syphilis & Juxtaposition, or Irony? from memory; then she read her 2 Periodic Table poems Potassium Chloride and Thallium at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 2/26/16 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems Arsenic and Syphilis & Juxtaposition, or Irony? from memory; then she read her 2 Periodic Table poems Potassium Chloride and Thallium at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 2/26/16 (this video was filmed from a Nikon Coolpix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v206 4/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Floating Island” poems “Oganesson, bending time inside” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Potassium Chloride” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Only If She Had a Choice” and “Evil of What They’ve Done” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”) during her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also a Facebook live video stream (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights

Poverty in America (twitter-length poem)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Praseodymium live in Chicago 10/20/13 at her Pilsen Periodically mini-feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Praseodymium live in Chicago 10/20/13 at her Pilsen Periodically mini-feature (with a watercolor filter)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature “Pilsen, Periodically”, with her poems for the Pilsen Art Walk, “Praseodymium”, “Darmstadtium”, and “Rhodium” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Download this free chapbook
“the Pilsen, Periodically”,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “White Phosphorus”, and “Praseodymium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “White Phosphorus”, and “Praseodymium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Praseodymium: toxic if you breathe it...
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cerium-141, slowly seeping in” (+ showing the poem Cerium-141 image), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (+ showing the poem Praseodymium image), “Praseodymium: toxic if you breathe it...” (+ showing the poem Praseodymium image), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (+ showing the poem Neodymium image), and “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (+ showing the poem Promethium image) from the v328 12/22 cc&d issue/book “Lasting Forever” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin,

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cerium-141, slowly seeping in” (+ showing its image), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (+ showing its image), “Praseodymium: toxic if you breathe it...” (+ showing its image), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (+ showing its image), and“Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (+ showing its image) from the books “Unable To Escape It” and “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, pinterest, Instagram,

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

Praseodymium: up close and personal
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading set 2 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (#57 La), “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” (#058 Ce, in 141Ce), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (#59 Pr, in PrScO3), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (#60, Nd), “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (#61 Pm), “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” (#64 Gd), and “Terbium is out of this world” (#65 Tb) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading set 2 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (#57 La), “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” (#058 Ce, in 141Ce), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (#59 Pr, in PrScO3), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (#60, Nd), “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (#61 Pm), “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” (#64 Gd), and “Terbium is out of this world” (#65 Tb) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Praying to Idols
See this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
And is listed in ChicagoPoetry.com’s 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest

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12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Praying to Idols” and “Unless it Happens to You” at the Bahá’í Faith Center (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Praying to Idols” and “Unless it Happens to You” at the Bahá’í Faith Center (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Precariously Balance

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Outsider”, “Precariously Balance”, and “Ever Felt Safe”, all in honor of Brian Lamont/Grosz live 5/25/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

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

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “Xtc from Found “Candy””, from the May 2021 v183 issue of Down in the Dirt’s paperback book “Alone Time”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, “Precariously Balance”, “Ever Felt Safe”, “Exude more in Black”, and “Xtc from Found “Candy””, from the May 2021 v183 issue of Down in the Dirt’s paperback book “Alone Time”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Precinct Fourteen
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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(1:48) live 08/05/07 at Beach Poets

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

See YouTube video of part two of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/24/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/24/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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)

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Private Lives 2005”, “Precinct Fourteen”, and “Holding my Hand” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

predator (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (on a Sony camera, negative filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (on a Sony camera, cropped and color balanced)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (on a Sony camera, x-ray filter)

Order this book in the Janet Kuypers haiku collection book 100 Haikus, or in the 2014 collection book Partial Nudity.

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

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

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

prefer things soft

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

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

Prepared for the Worst

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

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

Prescribe them Something, Anything poem on Instagram and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Have You Ever Had” originally performed in her “new year’s unplugged” show and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “Queasy Feeling” (written on National Sword Swallowing Day), live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

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

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

Present and Past

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for audio CD 08/14/07

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading Present and Past and Burning Building 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)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading Present and Past and Burning Building at the open mike 3/28/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) from the Threshold filter

Pressure On Me Again

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

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(:53, 06/15/07)

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06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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(13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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Princess Diana, One Year Later

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Princess Diana, One Year Later 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

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

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 1) poems “after”, “choke”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, “Princess Diana, One Year Later”, “Explosive Energy”, “Touch (2019 edit)”, and “quake” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 1) poems “after”, “choke”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, “Princess Diana, One Year Later”, “Explosive Energy”, “Touch (2019 edit)”, and “quake” 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).

Private Lives One

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Russians at a Garage Sale”, “Private Lives 1”, and “Private Lives 4” from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v1” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Private Lives Two

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read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

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06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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

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

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v225 11/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Shadows of Sanity” book poems “Why the White Cliffs of Dover Are So White” (which is also in the book “The Universe is in Your Hands”, & showing the White Cliffs of Dover image), “Private Lives II”, & “Writing Your Name” (+

showing the 2/15/05 show image & the 9/2/17 show image) during her “Poetic License 11/3/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; online on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).. Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

see the prose section for Private Lives Three, the prose piece in this series of writings, by going to the prose section of this listing.

Private Lives Four

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Private Lives 2005

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Probably Not

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem probably not 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem probably not 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera with an Edge Detection filter).

progress (haiku, on Twitter)

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

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

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

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

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

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Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video

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

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Promethium, Livermorium, & Lead, recorded from a Android camera) read live in Chicago 1/9/13 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading set 2 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (#57 La), “Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb”” (#058 Ce, in 141Ce), “Praseodymium: up close and personal” (#59 Pr, in PrScO3), “Neodymium saved from e-waste” (#60, Nd), “Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue” (#61 Pm), “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” (#64 Gd), and “Terbium is out of this world” (#65 Tb) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

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

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

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

Watch YouTube video of poems (INCLUDING PROTACTINIUM) read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry feature (w/ Bob Rashkow poems) in this Poetry is Money, in Chicago’ “Waiting 4 the Bus” 7/7/14 (C)

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

Protactinium, and voilà... rocks?
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

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

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

Protect Ourselves from Ourselves

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her twitter-length poem “Juxtaposition, or Irony?” in conversation, then reading her poems “Protect Ourselves from Ourselves” and “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph” 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony).

Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Leather Jacket” and “The Joshua Tree” (2 poems read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

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

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

Download all of the poems from the free chapbook

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

See YouTube video from 4/22/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” and “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos” for her book release “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (Sony).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems ““Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream” and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” to show her book release “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 8/12/17 at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (Panasonic Lumic camera).

See YouTube video 8/22/17 of the Janet Kuypers show “This Just In”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Yearning to Break Free” and “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” (video from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 8/22/17 of the Janet Kuypers show “This Just In”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Yearning to Break Free” and “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2018 Book Release Reading 3/7/18, where she read her cc&d 3/18 book “The False Portrait” haiku poem “escape”, and then her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” and “On a High Horse Like This” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video 3/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” and “On a High Horse Like This” from the cc&d 3/18 book “The False Portrait”, then covering the R.E.M. song “You Are The Everything” with John playing his mandolin live at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, “Other Souls” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/24/18 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video 12/2/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Who you Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and your Girlfriend”, and “Protecting Peace can Put You in Prison”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Natural Light” at the “Recycled Reads” (P L T56).

Enjoy this Dave Gecic YouTube video from his Dave Gecic Facebook live stream 1/11/21, which started with a 45+-minute interview with Janet Kuypers, capped off with her reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “You Have No Idea”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, following by a Terry Jacobus phone interview and Dave Gecic reading poetry from Bob Trombello, who died just over one year ago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Dave Gecic Facebook live video stream FROM 1/11/21, which started with a 45+-minute interview with Janet Kuypers, capped off with her reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “You Have No Idea”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, following by a Terry Jacobus phone interview and Dave Gecic reading poetry from Bob Trombello, who died just over one year ago.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers during the Dave Gecic Facebook live stream 1/11/21, which started with a 45+-minute interview with Janet Kuypers, capped off with her reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “You Have No Idea”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersinstagram

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers during the Dave Gecic Facebook live stream 1/11/21, which started with a 45+-minute interview with Janet Kuypers, capped off with her reading her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “You Have No Idea”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during 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 T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”

from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during 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

Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/17/24 of the “The Universe is in Your Hands” Janet Kuypers 2024 poetry book feature at the Tangible Books event in Chicago, where she read (as one long reading) her poems “Queen ISIS”, “Enveloping Fog”,

“Otherwise Never-ending Saver of Life”, “Just Far Enough to Feel Free”, “Willie Pete”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Xyresic Flames (The Universe is in your Hands edit)”, “Because of a Fire”, “Big Shoulders: This Was Her Home”, “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Ever Elusive Happiness”, from her CyberWit 2024 poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on

Facebook, Twitter/X, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).
Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Pinterest,

Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera & zoomed; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed In, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).
also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

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Pushed Aside

See YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems

See YouTube video of the her mini-feature INCLUDING THIS POEM (with background base by John Yotko) live 10/11/11 at the Café

Push Your Button (from the “this poem is about...” series)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony cam)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music & video from the HA!man of South Afric / Francois Le Roux) from Samsung

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

Enjoy this YouTube video (posted 7/5/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiet for a While”, “Push Your Button”, “Under My Fingers”, and “Only Occasionally” from the v323 7/22 cc&d issue/book “Heart of the House” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 7/6/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiet for a While”, “Push Your Button”, “Under My Fingers”, and “Only Occasionally” from the v323 7/22 cc&d issue/book “Heart of the House” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

put it to rest

See YouTube video (:43) read live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video

of the intro and readings (including this piece), live 01/18/11 at the Chicago open mic at the Café

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece

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