Read New Modern American Prose by Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Last Before Extinction, 2005

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to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux

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to this from the CD release
from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

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(05/16/07, 2:20)

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6:25, of these three poems (White Knuckled, Last Before Extinction and And I’m Wondering) at the Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic at Jesse Oaks in Lake County (north of Chicago) on 05/24/07

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(2:12) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

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(2:38) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

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to this recording from Fusion

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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

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of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

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from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show

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to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.

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read live10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

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of Jeff Helgeson reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting 4 the Bus open mike 4/2/12

the poetry collection audio CD “Torture & Triumph”

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Last Before Extinction (from the book Living in a Big World) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Last Before Extinction (from the book Living in a Big World) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

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Leaving for Work

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Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09

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Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09

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(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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of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems

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)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the prose leaving for work live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/5/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this writing

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).

Left with a Hole 2010

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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

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with all of the writing in the live show

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(3:04, of just the poem) 11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Let Me Be 2010

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of the Cutting Room Floor at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

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at the Palos Park Public Library of the Cutting Room Floor
via the Internet Archive

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

Letter 9/16/06

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Letter 9/16/06 live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (from a Canon fs200 camera)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Letter 9/16/06 live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Letter 09/16/06” and her poems “Ever Since You Got Me” and “Love Affair with the Moon 2012” from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect” (written 12/6, on and for the day of the 1893 birth of English poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, which is also the 1746 birth of Scottish poet and songwriter Lady Grizel Bailli), “Europa and Ganymede Calling” (written 12/6, on and for the 2017 date of plate tectonics discovery on Jupiter’s moon Europa), “Other Side” and “Broke the Reflection” (for the 12/7 date Pearl Harbor was attacked), “Letter 09/16/06” (for 12/7, Letter Writing Day), “Childhood Memories Six” (for 12/8, the 1980 date John Lennon was assassinated), and “Ornaments from my Childhood” (written 12/7, on and for National Christmas Tree Day), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Other Side”, “Broke the Reflection”, “Letter 09/16/06”, “Childhood Memories Six”, and “Ornaments from my Childhood”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Letter on Religion
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poetic pieces: poetry & editorials CD by Janet Kuypers

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Letter To Mom (6/10/06)
letters from war time
letter to a troubled friend

Like I Was Never There 2010

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live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago

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live at New Year’s Unplugged

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live at the Café in Chicago 08/10/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 08/10/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poems “Kurons” with guitar

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read 11/30/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro and the poem Like I was Never There live 11/30/10 from the open mic at the Café in Chicago

Losing My Best Friend. (poetry turned to prose)

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(recorded with a metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with the Pastel Sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem

Loss 2010

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

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of the finale of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 05/21/10 with this writing

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part three of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

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of part 3 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

Love for the Stars, for What’s Out of Reach
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:

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0:41

studio track sample
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0:46

vocals track, 0:39

The original writing (written in 2005, for the show)

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live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago

Loving Four 2010

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live at the Café in Chicago 01/19/10

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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