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Leaving for Work

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Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09
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05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)
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video See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Leaving for Work”, “Park Bench”, and “Warring Nations” (from her “One Acts” show), all from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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Letter on Religion
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Tanya’s Story
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video 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
video 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
video See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poem “Vibrations Echo” 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” 5/27/21 at Austin Poetry Society’s “New World Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poem “Vibrations Echo” 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” 5/27/21 at Austin Poetry Society’s “New World 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


tell me
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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live at Regina’s Place 12/18/09
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video 05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)
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of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems
video See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)




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