Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
are sorted alphabetically.
Be Free Of You 2010
Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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Watch this YouTube video read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago |
Because This Is What We Do, 2005
Listen  to the DMJ Art Connection,off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One |
  Watch this YouTube video (1:07, at the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO 06/15/07) |
 Watch this YouTube video (2:08, live at the Cafe 07/10/07) |
| Listen from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack off the CD an american portrait |
Watch the YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08 |
Order this iTunes track:  from the poetry audio CD etc....Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:
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Before Taking Over the Controls 2010
 Watch this YouTube video live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago |
or watch this in part of the YouTube show live at New Year’s Unplugged |
Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News, 2005
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
Listen to the CD from the 09/20/05 performance art show SIN
(Scars Internet News)
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Watch the YouTube video 1:32, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08 |
Watch this YouTube video (1:21) from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05 |
see the entire performance of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive |
Order this iTunes track: from Chaos in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:
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Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (2 CD set, w/ live bonus track from the show Seeing Things Differently)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:
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See YouTube video of the first 4 poems performed (3:58) at the Red Lion Pub 08/14/07 at the live show Seeing Things Differently |
brushes with greatness
brushes with greatness [in French] [in German]
  Watch the YouTube video  Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, performed live at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11 |
See the full YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ feature “Triple Threat” at Trunk Fest, live outdoors in Evanston IL 7/24/11 (this video post appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars Publications 2022 annual collection book “Running Out of Time” prose “Seven Miles” and “Brushes with Greatness”, and her poem “Hydrogen: One Against One” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
This was also a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
Build Your Own Cross 2010
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Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 07/27/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poem “You Will”, “Marine Rifle Poem” “Build Your Own Cross”, and “Waiting for a Sign” |
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Watch this YouTube video (:36) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 12/07/10 with this poem and other poems read live |
Burn It In, 2005
Watch this YouTube video (5:03, of just the poem) live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99 |
Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) |
Listen to the live readingfrom the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03 |
Watch this YouTube video (5:18) live at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07 |
Listen to this live  atLive at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
Watch the YouTube video (:56) live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
Watch this YouTube video (5:22) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos os Islands |
Watch this YouTube video (5:13) recorded of dancing Boobies (birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos os Islands) |
Watch this YouTube video (2:22) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06 |
| You can also see the above YouTube video at blinkx and Google Video |
see the entire performance at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive |
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Listen to the full show read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06. |
Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out |
 Watch this YouTube video (4:32, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out |
Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State |
Watch this YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 2/27/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem |
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 2) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 1) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 2) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).
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But I Won’t, 2005
But You Know What I Mean, 2005
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