the Café

Below are mp3 files and videos from a June 14, 2011 (6/14/11) evening of poetry on mini-feature night at the Café...





enjoy the expanded feature
“ten Minutes with Warren”
at the Café from Janet Kuypers

With her poems “The Things Warren Says” (in the computer-generated voice of Steven Hawking), “No One Will”, “Warren Stories” (in the computer-generated voice of Steven Hawking), “Before I can Put a Smile on my Face Again”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and finally “You Carried It”.
Then later in the evening, Kuypers singing (John Yotko on guitar) the Eurythmics song “I Need You”, and the original Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What We Need In Life
video See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 6/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging
video See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 6/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life




the introduction to the Café
and then her poems “The Things Warren Says (in the computer-generated voice of Steven Hawking)”, “No One Will”, “Warren Stories (in the computer-generated voice of Steven Hawking)”, “Before I can Put a Smile on my Face Again”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and finally “You Carried It”.
Then Kuypers singing (John Yotko on guitar) the Eurythmics song “I Need You”, and the original Mom’s Favorite Vase s song “What We Need In Life
video See YouTube video from the intro to the 6/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
The Things Warren Says
(in the computer-generated voice of Steven Hawking)
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(:28) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things Warren Says (in the computer-generated voice of Steven Hawking) live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
No One Will
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Warren Stories
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(:34) Janet Kuypers reading her poem Warren Stories (in the computer-generated voice of Steven Hawking) live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Before I can Put a Smile
on my Face Again
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
It’s Someone’s Job
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Someone’s Job with the Edge Detection filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Someone’s Job with the Sepia Tone filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Someone’s Job with the Film Age (older) filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Someone’s Job with the Threshold filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
You Carried It
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Janet Kuypers singing, and John playing the guitar, covering the Eurythmics song
I Need You
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Janet Kuypers singing, and John playing the guitar, the Mom’s Favorite Vase song
What We Need In Life
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of Janet Kuypers singing, and John playing the guitar, the Mom’s Favorite Vase song What We Need In Life live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.
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of Janet Kuypers singing, and John playing the guitar, the Mom’s Favorite Vase song What We Need In Life with the Edge Detection filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.
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of Janet Kuypers singing, and John playing the guitar, the Mom’s Favorite Vase song What We Need In Life with the Sepia Tone filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.
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of Janet Kuypers singing, and John playing the guitar, the Mom’s Favorite Vase song What We Need In Life with the Film Age (older) filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.
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of Janet Kuypers singing, and John playing the guitar, the Mom’s Favorite Vase song What We Need In Life with the Threshold filter, live 6/14/11 at the Café in Chicago.




the Cafe

    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 performances 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 at many online locations.

Live at the Cafe - 3 disc set




the Cafe







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