Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
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Faith Comes Only 2010
   Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 08/18/09 |
False Suicide, 2005
 Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 07/13/08 |
07/13/08, Beach Poets
Watch the entire performance video, which contains this poem (25:19) from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/08/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 09/08/07,after the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/08/10 |
Farmer, 2005
Listen  to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD The DMJ Art Connection Disc One |
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
Listen off the 3 CD set Live at the Café, now available in a 3 CD set bonus track from Molly Malone’s |
Listen: (3:31) to this recording from Fusion
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Watch this YouTube videolive 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church |
Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church (23:58, from the Internet Archive) |
Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago (23:58) from the Internet Archive |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
 See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose! |
Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes: 
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Fingers Black 2010
Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web, live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10 |
Fireflies
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1)  This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56; Posterize filter).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (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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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia Tonefilter).
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fish
Watch this YouTube video04/26/11 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) |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 04/26/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago |
Fitting the Mold 2010
Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD String Theory ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection
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Get this on Poetic Pieces -a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!). |
Flooded War Memories 2010
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Listen Live at the Café, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Get this on Poetic Pieces - a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!). |
Watch the YouTube video (3:49) live, WordSlingers feature, WLUW Chicago radio 88.9FM |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the “line drawing” filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (recorded with a metallic filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the Pastel Sketch filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the Posterize filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of the introduction at the Café in Chicago, & the poem Flooded War Memorieslive 03/16/10; at the Café; in Chicago |
Watch the YouTube video of this poem read live in her Pilsen feature “Games We Play” 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo (music from Francois Le Roux, the HA!man of South Africa) |
See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo from the live feature “Games We Play”, w/ this poem |
Following... or Killing
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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vocals track, 0:20 |
Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
Four Syllables 2010
 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 |
fox in the snow
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose fox in the snow (C) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 at Jaks Tap in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose fox in the snow (C) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 at Jaks Tap in Chicago |
 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”. |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” 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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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” 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 micro-prose “fox in the snow” and ““the Robot Zombie Witch Girl” revisited”, plus her poem “Exposed and Abandoned (dreams 3/24/20)” 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’ (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading |
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “fox in the snow” and ““the Robot Zombie Witch Girl” revisited”, plus her poem “Exposed and Abandoned (dreams 3/24/20)” 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 #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading |
Freedom Just Past the Fence, 2005
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Get this on Poetic Pieces - a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!). |
Watch the YouTube video (2:21) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
Watch the YouTube video (2:18) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets |
Watch this YouTube video (2:16) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
Frozen Together 2010
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 12/15/09 |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 05/18/10 |
Watch this YouTube video read (with additional vocals from U.K. poet Oz Hardwich) 07/26/11, live at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 07/26/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poem “Frozen Together” (w/ U.K. poet Oz Hardwick vocals) |
Watch this YouTube video of John Yotko reading from the 08/11 issue (v223) of cc&d magazine, live 08/09/11, at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video
of the intro to the 08/09/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poems, including “Aim Carefully”, John Yotko reading her poem “Frozen Together” and them covering the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds”
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