Below are mp3 files and videos from a April 6, 2010 (04/06/10) evening of poetry and performance art at the Café...

the introduction to the Café

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

..or view the poems read throughout the evening,
as Janet Kuypers read accepted writings from
cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine

read from cc&d magazine, the April 2010 issue (v207) cc&d Editor in Chief Janet Kuypers reading the poem by Michael Ceraolo: “from Book of Corporate Prayer”

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

the Janet Kuypers poem Exhaling

(:15 of just the poem)

Rather read it? Then read the original writing

Watch this YouTube video listen: (:15, of just the poem) live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

read from cc&d magazine, the April 2010 issue (v207) cc&d Editor in Chief Janet Kuypers reading the poem by CJ Wilson: “Darwin & Jesus”

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

read from cc&d magazine, the April 2010 issue (v207) cc&d Editor in Chief Janet Kuypers reading the poem by Charlie Newman: “Jobbed”

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

read from cc&d magazine, the April 2010 issue (v207) cc&d Editor in Chief Janet Kuypers reading the poem by CEE: “Doomed to Repeating Rifles”

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

read from the 04/10 issue (v081) of Down in the Dirt magazine Scar Publications’ Janet Kuypers reading the poem by Devin Wayne Davis: “Bare”

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

read from the 04/10 issue (v081) of Down in the Dirt magazine Scar Publications’ Janet Kuypers reading the poem by Jim Carson: “the Deeper Stain”

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

the Janet Kuypers poem Translation

(:18 of just the poem)

Rather read it? Then read the original writing

Watch this YouTube video listen: (:18, of just the poem) live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Cafe, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live poerformances are included in Live at the Cafe includes not only recordings from 2003, 2004 and 2005, but it also contains recordings of two performance art shows — A Night of Firsts from 06/22/04, and Stripped from 06/07/05. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Coffee Chicago, Molly Malone’s, and even recordings from the Chicago Poetry Fest on both years, 2004 and 2005! You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry for only $12.95 by sending an e-mail to Scars Publications.

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