Ugly babies need the most love (twitter-length poem)
Ukraine, Rights, Freedom, and Peace
Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand
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Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains
Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect
Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free
Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature
Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing
Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes
Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war
Ultimately, the goddamn particle
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” on 7/28/22 during the APS (Austin Poetry Society) Open Mic zoom meeting (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” on 7/28/22 during the APS (Austin Poetry Society) Open Mic zoom meeting (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” on 7/28/22 during the APS (Austin Poetry Society) Open Mic zoom meeting (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem |
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” on 7/28/22 during the APS (Austin Poetry Society) Open Mic zoom meeting (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in round 2 of her post-Roe v. Wade poems for the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”, reading her poems “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom”, “Ultimately, the goddamn particle”, and &“Unless it’s about suppressing life” on 11/2/22 in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersequalityforwomen |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in round2 of her post-Roe v. Wade poems for the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”, reading her poems “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom”, “Ultimately, the goddamn particle”, and &“Unless it’s about suppressing life” on 11/2/22 in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersequalityforwomen |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in round 2 of her post-Roe v. Wade poems for the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”, reading her poems “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom” and “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” on 11/2/22 in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersequalityforwomen |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in round 2 of her post-Roe v. Wade poems for the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”, reading her poems “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom” and “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” on 11/2/22 in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Samsung S9 camera / Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersequalityforwomen |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v334 6/23 cc&d 30-year anniversary issue/book “From a Devil to an Angel” poems “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Krypton” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Krypton, Messed With” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 6/4/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from the open mic that was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
unbounded (haiku, on Twitter and Instagram)
Uncharted Land
   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 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 T56 camera). |
See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uncharted Land” from the cc&d June 2021 v310 28-year anniversary issue/paperback book “Falling”, then her poem “Every Heartbeat”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 6/6/21” 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uncharted Land” from the cc&d June 2021 v310 28-year anniversary issue/paperback book “Falling”, then her poem “Every Heartbeat”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 6/6/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Never Ending Now”, “On This Day”, and “Uncharted Land” from the cc&d May-August 2021 issue collection book “What If” 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 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Never Ending Now”, “On This Day”, and “Uncharted Land” from the cc&d 5-8/21 issue collection book “What If” 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 (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Unchecked Electricity
unclean left hands
Unconscious
See YouTube video  
Live in Chicago at the Café
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See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café |
See YouTube video of the intro to the 07/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with the poems “Unconscious” and “Conflicting Convictions” |
Uncontrollable Car (dreams 3/23/21)
uncuffed
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trekpoem uncuffed live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trekpoem uncuffed live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Uncuffed in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Uncuffed in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
Download this poem in the free chapbook “Imzadi”, w/ poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, including this poem. |
See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “kinds of interference”, “uncuffed” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera). |
See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “kinds of interference”, “uncuffed” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera). |
uncuffed and printed
Under Constant Supervision
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under Constant Supervision live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under Constant Supervision live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
See YouTube video of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Under Constant Supervision live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Under Constant Supervision live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterized) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under Constant Supervision in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing |
Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved Me”, “Under Constant Supervision” and “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” for her “Revealed” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved Me”, “Under Constant Supervision” and “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” for her “Revealed” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Under his Bed
from the plush horse stories - under his jeans
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
 Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera |
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam |
Underground History
Under my Fingers (from the “this poem is about...” series)
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago |
Watch the 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) |
Watch the 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 reading her new poem “Hunting for Life”, and then her poems “Feel Comfortable”, and “Under my Fingers” from her book “Give Me the News” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Hunting for Life”, and then her poems “Feel Comfortable”, and “Under my Fingers” from her book “Give Me the News” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poems “Under my Fingers” and “Know You Only Got Me” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Then You, Women who Work I” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poems “Under my Fingers” and “Know You Only Got Me” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Then You, Women who Work I” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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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
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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
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiet for a While”, “Push Your Button”, “Under My Fingers”, “Only Occasionally”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic
Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This video was also filed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and given a Hue Cycling filter; and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem |
Under Our Own Feet
Underscore for the Battles
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given an Edge Detection filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then given a Posterize filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then given Threshold filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (less than) “Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” (for Ayn Rand’s birthday, 2/2), “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country” and “Underscore for the Battles” (for Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, 2/12), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (less than) “Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” (for Ayn Rand’s birthday, 2/2), “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country” and “Underscore for the Battles” (for Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, 2/12), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew”, read from the v168 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Aurora” that also all appear in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/5/20 in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew”, read from the v168 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Aurora” that also all appear in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/5/20 in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew” from the v168 “Aurora” section of the Down in the Dirt February-April 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew” from the v168 “Aurora” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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Under the Sea
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Listen  to this track off the 3 CD set Live at the Café, now available in a 3 CD set that you can order directly through iTunes. 
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See 05/16/07 video: (0:36)This film is from the Internet Archive |
(05/16/07, 0:44) See YouTube video |
Watch video from the show A Night of Firsts This film is from the Internet Archive |
See YouTube video (1:36) from the show A Night of Firsts |
Watch the YouTube video (1:25) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets |
See YouTube video (:42) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
See YouTube video (:44) video 12/07 collage (of Kuypers swimming in the Pacific Ocean with many blue fish, a Sally Longfoot (crab), a dolphin in the Pacific, a lion seal, and a Giant Tortoise from the Galapagos Islands 12/07) |
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection
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Watch the YouTube video (1:31) live 4/14/09 at the Cafe |
See YouTube video read at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco (with Alcatraz in the background) 09/14/09 |
See YouTube video of the Cutting Room Floor at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09 |
or see the full 10/07/09 Video at the Palos Park Public Library of the Cutting Room Floor via the Internet Archive |
See YouTube video 06/21/10, Café Ballou (at Waiting 4 the Bus) in Chicago |
Enjoy this YouTube videoo of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from memory live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she ended up hosting for years in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading a number of her poems & prose including this writing (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, accompanying opera vocals from Suzanne Hettinger, and guitar from John) live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram
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See YouTube video read live (from memory) 12/18/11, at the last meeting at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago, from the Samsung Camera |
See YouTube video read live (from memory) 12/18/11, at the last meeting at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago, from the Kodak Camera |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading a number of her poems & prose including this writing (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, accompanying opera vocals from Suzanne Hettinger, and guitar from John) live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Kodak camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading poetry (including this poem) at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers in the 2nd half of the poetry open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (which includes this poem reading) |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Canon video camera |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ live piano from Gary) from the Sony video camera |
See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera) |
Watch the YouTube video of this Kuypers reading the poem live 1/26/13 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading this poem |
See YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak) |
See YouTube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung) |
See the Samsung video upside-down, all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb |
Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
See YouTube video of Dave Gecic reading this Janet Kuypers poem Under the Sea live 6/26/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/26/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — with Dave Gecic reading this poem |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Under the Sea live 11/6/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 11/6/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus reading this poem |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under the Sea live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (video recorded with a Canon fs200 video camera) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under the Sea live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (video recorded with a Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems
Entering the Lake of Fire,
unless it happens to you,
Open Book,
electromagnetism, an edited version of her poem Everything was Alive and Dying,
Death Takes Many Forms, and
Under the Sea. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago, with Entering the Lake of Fire,
unless it happens to you,
Open Book,
electromagnetism, an edited version of the poem
Everything was Alive and Dying,
Death Takes Many Forms, and
Under the Sea (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (Canon Power Shot).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Leonard Cohen’s Coming Back to You, her poem Made Any Difference, the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her poem Under the Sea (set to Beatles music), & George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise) 2/16/16 at The Uptown Social open mic in Georgetown TX (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperspoetry
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Leonard Cohen’s Coming Back to You, her poem Made Any Difference, the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her poem Under the Sea (set to Beatles music), & George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise) 2/16/16 at The Uptown Social open mic in Georgetown TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperspoetry
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Get this poem in the free chapbook Like a Lamb to the Slaughter with all of the poems read 9/2/15 at Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret show in Chicago. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems from memory, Too Far, Fantastic Car Crash, and Under the Sea 6/26/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems from memory, Too Far, Fantastic Car Crash, and Under the Sea 6/26/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of “the Thom Experience”, where Thom goes on stage, asking others to join him, and in the middle of his open performance spaceJanet Kuypers read her poem Under the Sea 7/24/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of “the Thom Experience”, where Thom goes on stage, asking others to join him, and in the middle of his open performance spaceJanet Kuypers read her poem Under the Sea 7/24/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed with a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under the Sea in the fourth round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under the Sea in the fourth round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (filmed w/ a Power Shot camera; Threshold filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her 2 poems Now You’re Nothing To Me and Under the Sea 9/11/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her 2 poems Now You’re Nothing To Me and Under the Sea 9/11/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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View or download the free PDF chapbook New Beginning, Firsts and the Future with “a New Life” “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, & “In Love I Abide”. |
See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).. |
See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books, PLT56ED.
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See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books, PLT56ST.
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See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books, PLT56Th.
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems
“Under the Sea”,
“The Burning”,
“Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”,
“What We Need in Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”,
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”,
“Death is a Dog”, and
“September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems
“Under the Sea”,
“The Burning”,
“Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”,
“What We Need in Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”,
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”,
“Death is a Dog”, and
“September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given an Edge Detection filter).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems
“Under the Sea”,
“The Burning”,
“Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”,
“What We Need in Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”,
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”,
“Death is a Dog”, and
“September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems
“Under the Sea”,
“The Burning”,
“Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”,
“What We Need in Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”,
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”,
“Death is a Dog”, and
“September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems
“Under the Sea”,
“The Burning”,
“Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”,
“What We Need in Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”,
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”,
“Death is a Dog”, and
“September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems
“Under the Sea”,
“The Burning”,
“Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”,
“What We Need in Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”,
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”,
“Death is a Dog”, and
“September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter).
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Read all of the poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry show in her 6/11/18 poetry chapbook for her show
“Eleven” containing her poems
“Under the Sea”,
“The Burning”,
“Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”,
“What We Need in Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”,
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”,
“Death is a Dog”, and
“September 11, 2001”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, and “Observer’s Love Poem”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Lost my Breath” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Lost my Breath” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Only Searching” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Under the Sea” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Only Searching” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Under the Sea” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 during the intro to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 during the intro to “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the first poem she ever wrote from memory, “Under the Sea”, then reading her poems “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), and “Violent Endeavour” (written for when the first space probe entered another planet’s atmosphere, the Soviet Venera 4 to Venus) from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading the first poem she ever wrote from memory, “Under the Sea”, then reading her poems “Effigy”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Violent Endeavour” from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” to close the Tablerock Poetry Festival 2021 at Tablerock of Salado, TX 5/8/21 (this video was 
filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersveglife
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under the Sea” (the 1st poem she ever wrote) and “Out to the Horizon” (her most recent poem, that appears as poem 101 that she read from the U.K. book “Joined Up Writing, the second installment”) 7/28/21 @ the “Wednesday Night Poetry” open mic at Kollective Coffee + Cafe in Hot Springs, AR, followed by John reading a poem (this video was filmed from a Panasonic 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under the Sea” (the 1st poem she ever wrote) and “Out to the Horizon” (her most recent poem, that appears as poem 101 that she read from the U.K. book “Joined Up Writing, the second installment”) 7/28/21 @ the “Wednesday Night Poetry” open mic at Kollective Coffee + Cafe in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book “Under the Sea: a little girl’s journey”, then RE-reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book and picture book “Under the Sea: a little boy’s journey”, then reading her poem “Eyes” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book “Under the Sea: a little girl’s journey”, then RE-reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book and picture book “Under the Sea: a little boy’s journey”, then reading her poem “Eyes” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book “Under the Sea: a little girl’s journey”, then RE-reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book and picture book “Under the Sea: a little boy’s journey”, then reading her poem “Eyes” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book “Under the Sea: a little girl’s journey”, then RE-reading her poem “Under the Sea” from the Scars Publications coloring book and picture book “Under the Sea: a little boy’s journey”, then reading her poem “Eyes” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine May-August 2021 issues collection book “What If” to start 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
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & given a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter & a Sepia tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love”
for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Experimental Poetry: Understand
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Understanding Terrorism’s Interior
Understanding what’s Crazy
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Have You Ever Had, Understanding what’s Crazy and I Blow Bubbles at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Have You Ever Had, Understanding what’s Crazy and I Blow Bubbles at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (this video was filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Understanding what’s Crazy” 11/6/16 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (video filmed from a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Understanding what’s Crazy” 11/6/16 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, reading long poems, first with “One Spring”, and ending with “Understanding What’s Crazy” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeature
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, reading long poems, first with “One Spring”, and ending with “Understanding What’s Crazy” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeature
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Understand the Power
Understand the Power (The Universe is in your Hands edit)
Understood
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Understood live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Understoodlive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
Underwater and Swimming
Under Your Total Control (from the “this poem is about...” series)
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Watch the 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 live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix). |
See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; Sepia). |
See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; Thresh.). |
See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; E.D.). |
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading |
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading |
Undulating Nexus
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera & given a Sepia Tone filter, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poems “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Dreams 2/3/19”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 6, she read her poem “Quesadich in our Underworld” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poems “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Dreams 2/3/19”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 6, she read her poem “Quesadich in our Underworld” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera and given a Sepia Tone filter, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Revealed”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Revealed”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Revealed”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this live video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book anthology “Stardust in Hand” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet
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.
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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
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unique noise
Unique Roads
Uniqueness Finds Love
Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & given a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video from 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this YouTube video 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”
(relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter & a Sepia tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 5/7/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love”
for its appearance in and from the “2022 Animal Tales” book, then her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (relating to the Animal Tales poem and appearing in the Scars Publications 2022 book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only Recourse”, and “Under the Sea” (because it was recently drawn by 2 artists into coloring books from both girl and boy perspectives) during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2022 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersveglife
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Holmium, only one atom” from the v324 8/22 cc&d issue/book “Into the Surf”, plus her poem “On a Sunday after a Sermon” to start her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Holmium, only one atom” from the v324 8/22 cc&d issue/book “Into the Surf”, plus her poem “On a Sunday after a Sermon” to start her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Animal Tales” 2022 book feature poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” and her “JK with HA” show poems “My Kind of Town” and “Communication 2012” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter,
Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eliminate all Rapists” (for her 2023 CyberwWit book “Testament”) and “Uniqueness Finds Love” (for her 2024 CyberWit poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”), both read live at
Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR on 8/7/24 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream of this reading in Hot Springs, AR on 8/7/24 (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; linked on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands |
United We Wonder
Unity for Humanity
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “At the Camp” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Unity for Humanity” (written on and for The Declaration of The Báb day) and “Memorial Day (2019 edit)”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “At the Camp” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Unity for Humanity” (written on and for The Declaration of The Báb day) and “Memorial Day (2019 edit)”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (Panasonic Lumix 2500). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Language” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” and then showed her Instagram and Twitter image from the poem, then “Unity for Humanity” and “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too” from her upcominf poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 6/29/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Instagram poem “Language” that will be in her upcoming (August 2919) poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” and then showed her Instagram and Twitter image from the poem, then “Unity for Humanity” and “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too” from her upcominf poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 6/29/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video 8/7/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Unity for Humanity” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in front of a Buddha statue in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video 8/7/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Unity for Humanity” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in front of a Buddha statue in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Seasons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Seasons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera). |
See Facebook streaming live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Unity for Humanity” (written on 5/23, which is The Declaration of The Báb day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/23/20 as a bonus May reading for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Unity for Humanity” (written on 5/23, which is The Declaration of The Báb day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/23/20 as a bonus May reading for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171 “Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171 “Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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universe (haiku, on Twitter)
Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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See YouTube video (C) of Bob Lawrence reading the Janet Kuypers haiku universe in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery |
See YouTube video (S) of Bob Lawrence reading the Janet Kuypers haiku universe in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery |
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem universe (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon) |
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem universe (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize) |
See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers practicing her twitter-length haiku universe as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/7/16 for her poetry show today at Austin’s the Baha’i Center. |
See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers practicing her twitter-length haiku universe as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5during her Expressions 2016 show, her 1st Austin poetry show 5/7/16. |
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
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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
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Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Love in the Universe5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin |
See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku universe from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16. |
See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “universe” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./June 2016 issue collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/12/16 (Austin; Samsung Galaxy S7). |
See YouTube video 2/25/17 of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku “universe”, then reading her poems “elusive imaginary creature” and “violence and peace both work” for “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers |
See YouTube video 2/25/17 of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku “universe”, then reading her poems “elusive imaginary creature” and “violence and peace both work” for “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “census”, “eventually”, “universe”, and “judge” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 7/29/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “census”, “eventually”, “universe”, and “judge” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 7/29/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “census”, “eventually”, “universe”, and “judge” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 7/29/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “census”, “eventually”, “universe”, and “judge” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 7/29/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “enemies” and “universe” from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge”, live 3/31/19 through “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (this show intro video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “enemies” and “universe” from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge”, live 3/31/19 through “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera), and given a Posterize filter. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “enemies” and “universe” from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge”, live 3/31/19 through “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Sepia Tone filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “enemies” and “universe” from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge”, live 3/31/19 through “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera), and given 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 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone); posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr. |
Universe... Now In Color
Universe’s Lost Love
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Quintessential Symbol” her first poem in the April 2021 v308 issue of cc&d’s paperback book “The Garden of Eden”, plus her two new poems, “On the Surface” and “Universe’s Lost Love”, at the “Poetic License virtual open mic 4/4/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Quintessential Symbol” her first poem in the April 2021 v308 issue of cc&d’s paperback book “The Garden of Eden”, plus her two new poems, “On the Surface” and “Universe’s Lost Love”, at the “Poetic License virtual open mic 4/4/21” she hosted w/ a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed w/ a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Never Ending Now”, “On This Day”, “jar for my beating heart”, and “Universe’s Lost Love” from the cc&d June 2021 v310 28-year anniversary issue/paperback book “Falling”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Never Ending Now”, “On This Day”, “jar for my beating heart”, and “Universe’s Lost Love” from the cc&d June 2021 v310 28-year anniversary issue/paperback book “Falling”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays 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
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “jar for my beating heart”, “Universe’s Lost Love”, and “You Have No Idea” from the cc&d 5-8/21 issue collection book “What If” 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 (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “jar for my beating heart”, “Universe’s Lost Love”, and “You Have No Idea” from the cc&d May-August 2021 issue collection book “What If” 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 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Unborn Fetus does not equal Human Life
Unconstitutionality
unless (haiku, on Twitter)
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See YouTube video 3/14/15 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku unless in her show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music |
See YouTube video 3/14/15of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku unless in her show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200), of 14 poems INCLUDING THIS HAIKU with background music |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem unless from her 2015 journal/poetry/photography book, “Bon Voyage!” live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem unless from her 2015 journal/poetry/photography book, “Bon Voyage!” live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon Power Shot) |
See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku unless, from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 issues book the Intersection (11/25/15, Samsung, in Austin Texas) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17 of cc&d’s book “Salvaging America” poems “unless”, “Electromagnetism”, “Open Book”, “Everything is my Home”, and “Orders” in Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinstagram
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17 of cc&d’s book “Salvaging America” poems “unless”, “Electromagnetism”, “Open Book”, “Everything is my Home”, and “Orders” in Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading portions of her “Bon Voyage!” 20150116 8:07AM IST journal entry, then her haiku poems “don’t”, “unless”, and “cover”, all from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/25/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading portions of her “Bon Voyage!” 20150116 8:07AM IST journal entry, then her haiku poems “don’t”, “unless”, and “cover”, all from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/25/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
unless it happens to you
Unless it’s about suppressing life
Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Quiver in Thought”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” (written on the date of the discovery of the 2nd asteroid), and “Video Killed the Radio Star”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Quiver in Thought”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” (written on the date of the discovery of the 2nd asteroid), and “Video Killed the Radio Star”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
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See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” and “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” and “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 6/2/21 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
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Unlocking History Through Asteroids
unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere
Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere (The Universe is in your Hands edit)
Unprovable Stories
See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenogeny” (written for Lent), “Unprovable Stories” (written on Atheist Pride Day),and “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day), from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenogeny” (written for Lent), “Unprovable Stories” (written on Atheist Pride Day),and “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “Filed under Fiction” from the cc&d June 2020 27-year anniversary book “Ticket to Paradise” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “Filed under Fiction” from the cc&d June 2020 27-year anniversary book “Ticket to Paradise” 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “filed under fiction” from the v298 “Ticket to Paradise” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “filed under fiction” from the v298 “Ticket to Paradise” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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Unraveling Two More Moons
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16/19 on the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on moonlight 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16/19 on the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on moonlight 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16/19 on the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on moonlight 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16/19 on the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on the moonlight theme 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia Tone).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book
“Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/14/20 (on this event date) as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the launch date in 2011 of the Last Space Shuttle Mission), “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written 7/15, on the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the launch date in 2011 of the Last Space Shuttle Mission), “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written 7/15, on the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (on a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling” and “Unraveling Two More Moons” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 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 and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling” and “Unraveling Two More Moons” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 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 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, & “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom
Unscathed
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See YouTube video Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09 |
Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago. This video is w/ the Internet Archive |
Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at the Internet Archive |
See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/26/17 of her reading her poems “Unscathed”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams” and “Gary’s Blind Date” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
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See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/26/17 of her reading her poems “Unscathed”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams” and “Gary’s Blind Date” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
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unsung
Until all the Pieces Connect
See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect” (written 12/6, on and for the day of the 1893 birth of English poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, which is also the 1746 birth of Scottish poet and songwriter Lady Grizel Bailli), “Europa and Ganymede Calling” (written 12/6, on and for the 2017 date of plate tectonics discovery on Jupiter’s moon Europa), “Other Side” and “Broke the Reflection” (for the 12/7 date Pearl Harbor was attacked), “Letter 09/16/06” (for 12/7, Letter Writing Day), “Childhood Memories Six” (for 12/8, the 1980 date John Lennon was assassinated), and “Ornaments from my Childhood” (written 12/7, on and for National Christmas Tree Day), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery |
See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Other Side”, “Broke the Reflection”, “Letter 09/16/06”, “Childhood Memories Six”, and “Ornaments from my Childhood”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Until I Choose Life
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Nomad’s Choir” vol. 28 issue 1 poem “Other people’s Worlds” that also appears in the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, then her new poem “Until I Choose Life”, live 1/25/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Nomad’s Choir” vol. 28 issue 1 poem “Other people’s Worlds” that also appears in the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, then her new poem “Until I Choose Life”, live 1/25/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Posterized Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” rom her chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, then her “Nomad’s Choir” vol. 28 issue 1 poem “Other people’s Worlds” that also appears in the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, then her new poem “Until I Choose Life”, live 1/25/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” rom her chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, then her “Nomad’s Choir” vol. 28 issue 1 poem “Other people’s Worlds” that also appears in the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, then her new poem “Until I Choose Life”, live 1/25/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Sepia Toned Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Española Lore” and “Until I Choose Life”, live 1/26/20 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Española Lore” and “Until I Choose Life”, live 1/26/20 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” at Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2020 Animal Tales poems “Española Lore”, “One Lonesome Whale”, and “Until I Choose Life” during the “Poetic License open mic 2/2/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2020 Animal Tales poems “Española Lore”, “One Lonesome Whale”, and “Until I Choose Life” during the “Poetic License open mic 2/2/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Until I Choose Life” for the “Tablerock poetry festival 2020” 2/6/20 in Salado, TX for the “Tablerock Poetry Festival!” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, & posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Until I Choose Life” for the “Tablerock poetry festival 2020” 2/6/20 in Salado, TX for the “Tablerock Poetry Festival!” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, & posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See this YouTube video from 5/8/21 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Until I Choose Life” during the Tablerock Poetry Festival 2021 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersveglife
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See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Until I Choose Life” during the Tablerock Poetry Festival 2021 at Tablerock of Salado, TX 5/8/21 (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersveglife
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her animal-themed poems “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, and “Until I Choose Life” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her animal-themed poems “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, and “Until I Choose Life” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this YouTube of Janet Kuypers reading her animal-themed poems “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, and “Until I Choose Life” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed with a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her animal-themed poems “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, and “Until I Choose Life” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, “Until I Choose Life”, and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, “Until I Choose Life”, and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Until I Get a Chance
until the next truck comes (twitter-length poem)
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Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) hertwitter-length poem Until the Next Truck Comes from cc&d magazine, in the book and Then he Moved live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Until the Next Truck Comes from cc&d magazine, in the book and Then he Moved live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 8/27/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where she reads poetry, including this poem |
Until They Talked of Galvanism
Untitled (1986)
See YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
See YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video (from the Internet Archive) of Janet Kuypers’ show “Disenfranchised Doggerel” (camera #1) at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, w/ this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video of “Disenfranchised Doggerel”, Janet Kuypers’ show at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe (from camera #1 ), which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature
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Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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untitled (1988)
untitled 6/11/15 (two-tweet poem)
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem untitled 6/11/15 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 untitled 6/11/15 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera). |
untitled, Father’s Day
Ununoctium (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 12/14/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table |
See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table |
See YouTube videoof poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 at her feature On the Edge of the Table (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry |
See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 at her feature On the Edge of the Table (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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Download this free chapbook On the Edge of the Table, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems toward the end of the Periodic Table. |
Ununpentium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
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Download this free chapbook On the Edge of the Table, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems toward the end of the Periodic Table. |
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See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table |
See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table |
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See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 at her feature On the Edge of the Table (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry |
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See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 at her feature On the Edge of the Table (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a Posterize filter) |
See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a Sepia Tone filter) |
See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon) |
See YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a sharpened film grain filter) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Nitrogen” (N, #7), “Cesium”(Cs, #55), and “Ununpentium” (Uup, #115) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Nitrogen” (N, #7), “Cesium”(Cs, #55), and “Ununpentium” (Uup, #115) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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Ununseptium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize
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 videoof 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
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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).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Ununseptium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Ununseptium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI’s the Brat Stop (C, Edge Det.) |
See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Ununseptium in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)
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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Ununseptium in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (Sony)
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Download this poem & more in the free PDF Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace chapbook, w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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Ununtrium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Ununtrium in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing |
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Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show. |
Unwind and Revere Yourself
See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unwind and Revere Yourself”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/21/20 during the Open Mic Showcase Zoom meeting (from a Samsung S9 camera).
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unwind and Revere Yourself” (written on the 4th Saturday in November, on and for International Aura Day), “Evolving with Mutant Genes” (written 11/24, on and for the 1859 publication date of the Charles Darwin book “The Origin of Species”), “Yes, For Our Future Too” (written on and for Thanksgiving), and “Ethical Thing to Do”(written 11/28, on and for the day of the 1781 Zong massacre, where a British slave ship crew murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live during the 11/21/20 “Open Mic Showcase” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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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
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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
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Nitrogen Needs” and her poem “Unwind and Revere Yourself” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for her “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Nitrogen Needs” and her poem “Unwind and Revere Yourself” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” as the ending poems for her “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me
Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach |
See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11 |
See YouTube video
Live in her feature Celebrating with Song at the Café in Chicago
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See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café in her feature Celebrating with Song |
See feature-length YouTube video 07/12/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry at Chicago’s the Café weekly poetry open mic |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved Me”, “Under Constant Supervision” and “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” for her “Revealed” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved Me”, “Under Constant Supervision” and “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” for her “Revealed” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me” (originally performed in the IPB show), “Ruminating” (originally performed in the “Celebrating with Song” show), “Guilt” and “Dreams Turned Into Nightmares” (originally performed in the Evanston “Striking with Nature and Humanity” show), all read from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me” (originally performed in the IPB show), “Ruminating” (originally performed in the “Celebrating with Song” show), “Guilt” and “Dreams Turned Into Nightmares” (originally performed in the Evanston “Striking with Nature and Humanity” show), all read from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).
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Up for the Challenge
uphill (haiku, on Twitter and Instagram)
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers joining Thom & others on stage and reading her 3 haiku poems “out”, “uphill” and “upside-down” in the intro performance 4/2/17 to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (video by “Magic Jack”, who is on guitar). |
See YouTube video from 4/2/17 of Janet Kuypers joining Thom & others on stage and reading her 3 haiku poems “out”, “uphill” and “upside-down” in the intro to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (Canon Power Shot SX700). |
See YouTube video from 4/2/17 of Janet Kuypers joining Thom & others on stage and reading her 3 haiku poems “out”, “uphill” and “upside-down” in the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (from a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video from 5/3/17 of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading at Half Price Books, where she said her haiku “uphill” then read her prose “Driving by his House” in “Hands that Hurt”, then her poems “Medication” and “Empty Chocolate Counter” in “Things Found in Books” (this video filmed from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video from 5/3/17 of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading at Half Price Books, where she said her haiku “uphill” then read her prose “Driving by his House” in “Hands that Hurt”, then her poems “Medication” and “Empty Chocolate Counter” in “Things Found in Books” (this video filmed from a Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Violation”, “Exterior”, “Eminence”, “Earth”, “Lost”, “Jumped”, “Uphill”, “Essence”, “Upside-Down”, “Enjoy”, “Ghosts”, “You Do What You’re Told”, “Control”, “Enemy”, “Quarrel”, “Xeric”, “Oceans”, “Escape (2017 haiku)”, and “Aflame”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 8/13/19 outside Grant Park with the Millennium Bean in the background in Chicago (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Violation”, “Exterior”, “Eminence”, “Earth”, “Lost”, “Jumped”, “Uphill”, “Essence”, “Upside-Down”, “Enjoy”, “Ghosts”, “You Do What You’re Told”, “Control”, “Enemy”, “Quarrel”, “Xeric”, “Oceans”, “Escape (2017 haiku)”, and “Aflame”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 8/13/19 outside Grant Park with the Millennium Bean in the background in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Toned).
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Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up
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” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
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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” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays 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
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See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 9/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 9/5/21” 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
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Uprising for Revolution
See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, “Zealots Intentions”, and “Rushed” from the v304 issue of the cc&d 12/20 book “Reptile Lust” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, “Zealots Intentions”, and “Rushed” from the v304 issue of the cc&d 12/20 book “Reptile Lust” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uprising for Revolution” from the cc&d 12/20 v304 book “Reptile Lust”, “Exploit the Island” from the Down in the Dirt 12/20 v178 book “Spartacus”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 poetry review date book” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page, which led to John Yotko reading his poem The Deer, and then Zoom host John F. McMullen reading the intro of, and Janet Kuypers read his poem Gods, both also read from “the 2021 poetry review date book” (this video was filmed from a from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uprising for Revolution” from the cc&d 12/20 v304 book “Reptile Lust”, “Exploit the Island” from the Down in the Dirt 12/20 v178 book “Spartacus”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 poetry review date book” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page, which led to John Yotko reading his poem The Deer, and then Zoom host John F. McMullen reading the intro of, and Janet Kuypers read his poem Gods, both also read from “the 2021 poetry review date book” (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queen, Decapitated” (written 12/14, on and for the anniversary of the 1542 death of King James V, which ascended Mary, Queen of Scots to the throne at 6 days old), “Uprising for Revolution” (written 12/16, on and for the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party), “Understand the Power” (written 12/17, on and for the anniversary of the Aztec Calendar/Sun Stone Discovery), “Twin” (for 12/18, National Twin Day), and “Explorers at Heart” (written 12/19, on and for the date of the departure of the Space Shuttle to repair the Hubble Telescope, 12/19/99) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/15/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery |
See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queen, Decapitated”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Understand the Power”, “Twin”, and “Explorers at Heart” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/15/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, and “Zealots Intentions” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, and “Zealots Intentions” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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upside-down (haiku, on Twitter)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers joining Thom & others on stage and reading her 5 haiku poems “enjoy”, “lost”, “unbounded”, “upside-down” and “enemies” in the intro performance 3/19/17 to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (Canon Power Shot SX60 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers joining Thom & others on stage and reading her 5 haiku poems “enjoy”, “lost”, “unbounded”, “upside-down” and “enemies” in the intro performance 3/19/17 to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera). |
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See YouTube video from 4/2/17 of Janet Kuypers joining Thom & others on stage and reading her 3 haiku poems “out”, “uphill” and “upside-down” in the intro to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (Canon Power Shot SX700). |
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See YouTube video from 4/2/17 of Janet Kuypers joining Thom & others on stage and reading her 3 haiku poems “out”, “uphill” and “upside-down” in the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (from a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Violation”, “Exterior”, “Eminence”, “Earth”, “Lost”, “Jumped”, “Uphill”, “Essence”, “Upside-Down”, “Enjoy”, “Ghosts”, “You Do What You’re Told”, “Control”, “Enemy”, “Quarrel”, “Xeric”, “Oceans”, “Escape (2017 haiku)”, and “Aflame”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 8/13/19 outside Grant Park with the Millennium Bean in the background in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Violation”, “Exterior”, “Eminence”, “Earth”, “Lost”, “Jumped”, “Uphill”, “Essence”, “Upside-Down”, “Enjoy”, “Ghosts”, “You Do What You’re Told”, “Control”, “Enemy”, “Quarrel”, “Xeric”, “Oceans”, “Escape (2017 haiku)”, and “Aflame”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 8/13/19 outside Grant Park with the Millennium Bean in the background in Chicago (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).
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Upstage Everyone Else
See YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago |
See YouTube video 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 “Upstage Everyone Else” at the Café Mestizo open mic 1/21/12, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Upstage Everyone Else” and “On a High Horse Like This” at the Café Mestizo open mic 1/21/12, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube videoof Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry |
See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “on the Bridge”, then her poems “Upstage Everyone Else” & “On a High Horse Like This” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “on the Bridge”, then her poems “Upstage Everyone Else” & “On a High Horse Like This” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Upstage Everyone Else”, “Letting Ourselves Go”, and “You Carried It” from the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Upstage Everyone Else”, “Letting Ourselves Go”, and “You Carried It” from the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
upturn ((haiku, on Twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
Uranium (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 Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry
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See YouTube videoof 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 Kuypers reading this poem 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/16/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Uranium live at “Poetry Love Letters” 7/12/13 |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poems Radium and Uranium live at “Poetry Love Letters” 7/12/13 (with the Watercolor filter) |
Uranium Flexing 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).
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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).
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Uranium: Permafrost Saves poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
Urine and Fireworks
Us, Actually Touching
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
See YouTube video read live 11/27/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago |
See YouTube video of the intro to the 11/27/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching” |
See YouTube video live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung) |
See YouTube video live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece |
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon) |
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See YouTube video of Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing |
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Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with the Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr) |
See YouTube video 4/27/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching) in her first appearance/interview on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (from a Canon P.S.). |
See YouTube video 4/27/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching) in her first appearance/interview on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (from a Sony). |
See YouTube video 4/27/16 of part 2 of the Janet Kuypers interview (with her reading her two poems Entering the Lake of Fire and Us, Actually Touching), in her first appearance on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (Canon P.S.). |
See YouTube video 4/27/16 of part 2 of the Janet Kuypers interview (with her reading her two poems “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Us, Actually Touching”), in her first appearance on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersradio #janetkuyperspoetry
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See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (video filmed from a Sony camera). |
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See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).. |
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See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video of Louise Gail Richardson (host of the “Recycled Reads” open mic) reading Janet Kuypers’ poem “Us, Actually Touching” from the Water of Life chapbook “Unzip the Body Bag” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
See YouTube video of Louise Gail Richardson (host of the “Recycled Reads” open mic) reading Janet Kuypers’ poem “Us, Actually Touching” from the Water of Life chapbook “Unzip the Body Bag” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video filmed from a Sony camera). |
See 3/4/18 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Future Job Options”, “Us, Actually Touching” and “Everyone Has a Choice” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See 3/4/18 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Future Job Options”, “Us, Actually Touching” and “Everyone Has a Choice” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video (P L 2500) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Us, Actually Touching” and “Springtime”, and her micro-prose “Fox in the Snow” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”. |
See YouTube video (P L T56) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Us, Actually Touching” and “Springtime”, and her micro-prose “Fox in the Snow” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”. |
See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, her poem “Too Far” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem/ song “Made Any Difference” with John on guitar, from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/10/18 @ “For to Famous” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, her poem “Too Far” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem/ song “Made Any Difference” with John on guitar, from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/10/18 @ “For to Famous” a(from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, all read from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show (that will air 3/1/20 on tv), live at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center 12/14/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, all read from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show (that will air 3/1/20 on tv), live at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center 12/14/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, then her poems “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, originally from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but appearing in and read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, as one of the readings in her January 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (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 poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, then her poems “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, originally from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but appearing in and read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, as one of the readings in her January 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video when Janet Kuypers was featured in a half-hour Texas Nafas Poetry television show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), where, while being interviewed about her poetry, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (this DVD of the entire TV show was also posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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Download for free or read online the PDF chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, including her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)” (bonus poem), “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (bonus poem), and “And I’m wondering”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers listening to the U.K.’s 5 Towns Radio 2/2/20, where the host of the show highlighted her and shared her readings poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Us, Actually Touching” in Georgetown, along with radio poetry commentary (Samsung S9 camera & Sepia Toned; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See Facebook video of Janet Kuypers listening to the U.K.’s 5 Towns Radio 2/2/20, where the host of the show highlighted her and shared her readings poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Us, Actually Touching” in Georgetown, along with commentary on her poems (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Death takes many forms”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from the U.K. 5 Towns Radio reading at the end of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Death takes many forms”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from the U.K. 5 Towns Radio reading at the end of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 5/30/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers (airing 5/30/20). During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book
“Partial Nudity” for public access television in her 2020 “Nafas” interview/poetry show, for “8 poems, 8 days, 8 invites” poems for The Russian Almanac. #PeetMeNotLeave (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 11/19/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstv
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For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 11/19/20. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uprising for Revolution” from the cc&d 12/20 v304 book “Reptile Lust”, “Exploit the Island” from the Down in the Dirt 12/20 v178 book “Spartacus”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 poetry review date book” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page, which led to John Yotko reading his poem The Deer, and then Zoom host John F. McMullen reading the intro of, and Janet Kuypers read his poem Gods, both also read from “the 2021 poetry review date book” (this video was filmed from a from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uprising for Revolution” from the cc&d 12/20 v304 book “Reptile Lust”, “Exploit the Island” from the Down in the Dirt 12/20 v178 book “Spartacus”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 poetry review date book” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page, which led to John Yotko reading his poem The Deer, and then Zoom host John F. McMullen reading the intro of, and Janet Kuypers read his poem Gods, both also read from “the 2021 poetry review date book” (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the fourth airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 1/7/21, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv
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For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 1/7/21. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the fifth airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 3/22/21, watching her interview and her poem readings of “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv
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For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV stations in Austin during the live re-broadcast), everyone can now enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 3/22/21. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers Scars Publications poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary(an extreme sestina variation)” and
“Us, Actually Touching”
from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now”, read 4/7/21 during the Chicago “In One Ear” open mic Zoom meeting (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Just one Day, Let a Girl Dream” from the cc&d 1-4 2021 issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, then her poem “Out to the Horizon” (written as entry 101 to Joined Up Writing, the second installment, then her poem “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 literary review date book”, as the finalé to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 7/4/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Just one Day, Let a Girl Dream” from the cc&d 1-4 2021 issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, then her poem “Out to the Horizon” (written as entry 101 to Joined Up Writing, the second installment, then her poem “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 literary review date book”, as the finalé to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 7/4/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersbookreading
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Enjoy the Facebook live video stream of the majority of the 10/18/21 television re-broadcast of the Janet Kuypers Texas Nafas TV show that aired on Austin Public Access TV at 1:00 PM CST, interviewing Janet Kuypers and her poem
readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering”.
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Us Creative Types
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us Creative Types 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 poem Us Creative Types 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 “India stories” poems “Us Creative Types”, “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere”, and “on the back of a touring bike”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “India stories” poems “Us Creative Types”, “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere”, and “on the back of a touring bike”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Mary’s Perspective on How that Whole Jesus thing Turned Out”, “letter, 4/14/95 one”, “letter, 4/14/95 two”, “letter, 4/14/95 three”, “letter, 4/19/95”, “Us Creative Types”, and “How People Interpret My Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testament” on 4/30/23 in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This was also released as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb
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Use Any Angle
use what you had
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading her poem use what you had {2012 edit} at Waiting 4 the Bus 6/2/14 in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading her poem use what you had {2012 edit} at Waiting 4 the Bus 6/2/14 in Chicago (Posterized) |
Use Your Mind
See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day), “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11, the 1833 birthday of Robert G. Ingersoll), her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” and her poem “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, National Aviation Day), “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day), “Value of What Money Does” (written 8/24, the 1967 date when, led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party disrupted New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills on the trading floor), “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” (for 8/24, Pluto Demoted Day), “Ominous Day” (for the 8/24 79 A.D. date of the Mount Vesuvius eruption), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi), “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” (for the 9/1/79 date the Pioneer spacecraft visits Saturn), “No One Will Forget” (for the 9/3/44 date Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last 3-day train from the Westerbork transit camp to theAuschwitz concentration camp), “One With Wildlife” (written 9/4, on National Wildlife Day), “Visiting and Seeing the Signs” (for Grandparents Day, the 1st Sunday after Labor Day), and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, (for 9/17, Constitution Day), recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book”, “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Use Your Mind”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, “Ominous Day”, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Effigy”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “No One Will Forget”, “One With Wildlife”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi) and “Voyager” (written for the August 25, 2012 date NASA’s Voyager 1 started the Interstellar Mission into the unknown), and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” and “Voyager”, and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
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Using Bamboo and “Embracing” the West
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v348 8/24 cc&d issue/book “Pandora’s Box” & the CyberWit.net Summer 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” poems “On a Mission for This Reprieve”, “Using Bamboo and “Embracing” the West”, &
“Embracing History, Race, and Creole Soul” to start her “Poetic License 8/4/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (Samsung S9 camera; Color Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Rights
on its Usual Conquest Style
Utopia never happened
See Facebook live video 6/24/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Utopia Never Happened” (for the Poetry Aloud open mic she couldn’t attend).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/1/17 poetry show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” in Austin, with her poems
“fader, his mädchen and the Führer”,
“of independence or freedom”,
“Xerostomia”,
and “Utopia never happened” (with background music from Janet’s electric bass and bow, then the HA!Man of South Africa) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/1/17 poetry show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” in Austin, with her poems
“fader, his mädchen and the Führer”,
“of independence or freedom”,
“Xerostomia”,
and “Utopia never happened” (with background music from Janet’s electric bass and bow, then the HA!Man of South Africa) (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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Download all of the poems from the free chapbook “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” 
of the poems she performed in her 7/1/17 “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” poetry feature/show, including both classic and new poems
“fader, his mädchen and the Führer”,
“of independence or freedom”,
“Xerostomia”,
and “Utopia never happened”.
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See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Intelligence, “Big Hair and Fire Don’t Mix” and “Utopia Never Happened” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Lumix). |
See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Military Intelligence, “Big Hair and Fire Don’t Mix” and “Utopia Never Happened” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death” and “Signs of the Times” (2 poems read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) and “Utopia Never Happened” at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death” and “Signs of the Times” (2 poems read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) and “Utopia Never Happened” at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (this video was filmed from a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, and “Utopia Never Happened” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ 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 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, and “Utopia Never Happened” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ 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 of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading her haiku “don’t” and her “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” poems “Xerostomia” & “Utopia Never Happened” from the cc&d 2/18 book “Question Everything” to people live (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading her haiku “don’t” and her “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” poems “Xerostomia” & “Utopia Never Happened” from the cc&d 2/18 book “Question Everything” to people live (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku poems “brain”, “escape”, and “don’t”, plus her poems “Xerostomia” & “Utopia Never Happened” from her show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 5/2/18 “May 2018 Book Release Reading” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace” haiku poems “brain”, “escape”, and “don’t”, plus her poems “Xerostomia” & “Utopia Never Happened” from her show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the Tom Roby feature and the poetry open mic 3/18/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, WHRE SHE ALSO READS THIS POEM |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trekpoem Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trekpoem Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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Download this poem and more poetry about Star Trek in the free PDF file chapbook “Resistance is Futile” of poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, which included this poem. |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v202 12/22 Down in the Dirt, issue/book “The Cool Cold” poems “Aluminum” (the first poem also appearing in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Value from Nothingness”, “Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt”, and “X-ing out lives” (that is also slated for appearance in the CyberWit.net 2023 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a
Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This was also released from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “uncuffed and printed”, “Value from Nothingness”, and “Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt” from the book “The Paths Less Traveled” for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram,
& Tumblr)
This was also a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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