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Order this story in the 2nd printing of the spiral-bound poetry, prose & art book “(woman.)”, available in covers with bark, black rocks, fleckstone, metal building wall, red barn door, slate, white stones and wood slats.

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to this recording with eclectic jazz music from “Fusion”, or order this - or any track - off the CD through iTunes.

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part 1 of the live reading show “crazy” in Chicago 10/20/09

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part 2 of the live reading show “crazy” in Chicago 10/20/09

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part 3 of the live reading show “crazy” in Chicago 10/20/09

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of Kuypers reading live in Chicago 10/20/09, from the Internet Archive

Order the LIVE track on CD 13 from the CD set Live (an extensive 13 CD 2010 CD set)

(18:27) to the full show “crazy” live in Chicago 10/20/09

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of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

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of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Sony)

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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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of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

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of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Samsung), including this piece

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of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)

See YouTube video from 4/2/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets”, “High Roller” and “erasure poem: a Poetic History” at “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video from 4/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems “Tall Man”, “There I Sit” and “Optimizing your Odds” at “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poem “you’ve left me on Siesta Beach” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (from a Sony) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (Canon psSX700) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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

See YouTube video from 4/22/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing” and her haiku “ghosts”, then reading a portion of her short story “Crazy” at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera).

See Facebook live video of segment #1 from the Janet Kuypers feature “Crazy” at the Kick Butt Coffee Music & Booze open mic Spoken and Heard (from a Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone).

See Facebook live video of segment #2 (to the end of the show) from the Janet Kuypers feature “Crazy” at the open mic Spoken and Heard (from a Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone).

See this YouTube video from 4/23/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her short story “Crazy” in her feature “Crazy” (with the intro by Brian Lamont) at Kick Butt open mic Spoken and Heard (this video was filmed from a Canon Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video from 4/23/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her short story “Crazy” in her feature “Crazy” (with the intro by Brian Lamont) at Kick Butt open mic Spoken and Heard (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersfeature<

See YouTube video from 4/23/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her short story “Crazy” in her feature “Crazy” (with the intro by Brian Lamont) at Kick Butt open mic Spoken and Heard (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersfeature

dreams turned into nightmares

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 06/25/11

See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 06/25/11, with this writing

Download the chapbook with this writing in Striking with Nature and Humanity

fish

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04/26/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books the Window, Blister and Burn (the Kuypers edition), S&M (as a paperback and as a hardcover), Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite , the Written Word, and Exaro Versus)

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of the intro to the 04/26/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago

Guilt

See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 06/25/11, with this writing

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/14/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

how you looked then

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(2:02) read live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose How you looked then live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose How you looked then live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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

Private Lives Three

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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 YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus.

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