Read New Modern American Prose by Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

prose prose

Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
are sorted alphabetically.

I Dreamt About You Last Night, 2005

Listen

to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Listen

to this live

at
Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)

Listen

Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set

Watch the YouTube video

(1:51) live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

You can also see the above video at Files Tube

Watch this YouTube video
(4:07) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

Listen

to this w/ The DMJ Art Connection
off the CD Chaos In Motion

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etc.
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from iTunes or Napster
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Watch this YouTube video

read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa)

Watch this YouTube video
of ther reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music by the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing

Watch this YouTube video

read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung Camera

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from the poetry audio CD
“Oh.” audio CD
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See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading PART of this poem (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading the poems “Touching Cobalt” and PART of the poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/24/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night”

See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a cappella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped & saturated).

See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a capella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped/saturated w/ sci-fi filter).

I Know It’s Not Going To Happen, 2005

Listen: (2:44)

to this recording from Fusion

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from Chaotic Elements
(a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster

CD:

I Remember

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from “the Chaotic Collection”, ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from the iTunes CD:

Listen: (26:52)

to this recording from Fusion

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading majority of her prose poem “I Remember” (with a talk about AIDS) live 10/18/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers introducing the 10/18/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, including her reading part of her prose “I Remember”, with AIDS talk

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading majority of her prose poem “I Remember” read from her poetry book “Close Cover Before Striking” live 2/15/20 at the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading majority of her prose poem “I Remember” read from her poetry book “Close Cover Before Striking” live 2/15/20 at the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Ice Cream Stain 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

In a Cardboard Box 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

In the Air, 2005

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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Hope Chest In The Attic
13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order
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from the Chaotic Collection

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Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

Listen to parts in the CD recording of this piece
from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears:
in the mountains:

Watch this YouTube video

(2:27) at the Denver airport 06/17/07 in Denver, Colorado

Watch this YouTube video

(1:53) 07/17/07 from
Living in a Big World

Watch this YouTube video
of the most popular video Kuypers has ever released (1:54), 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World

this is the lead video (of many Kuypers videos) on

World News Network

See the above YouTube video from camera #1 on
dipity’s “the Painted Tower”

Watch the YouTube video
(3:47) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

Watch this YouTube video

(6:54) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

Watch the YouTube video
(:30) the part about mountains, live 06/17/03, Changing Gears

Watch the YouTube video
(:34) the part referencing Fort Myers Florida, live 06/17/03, Changing Gears

See the entire performance
of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

Listen

to this live recording, performed at Cafe Aloha 04/23/02.

Watch this YouTube video
12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

Watch this YouTube video
(12/4/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video
with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

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