tracks available from The Café

Below are poetry writing links and videos from a July 12, 2011 (7/12/11) evening of poetry and music at the Café...

the introduction to the Café, and Kuypers’ new poems “Unconscious ” and “Conflicting Convictions”

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of Janet Kuypers hosting the intro to the 7/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, then reading her poems “Unconscious ” and “Conflicting Convictions”

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Unconscious

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(1:31, 7/12/11)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem 7/12/11 live in Chicago at the Café.

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of Janet Kuypers from the lip camera reading her poem 7/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
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(1:10) 7/12/11)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem 7/12/11 live in Chicago at the Café.

See the YouTube video

of Janet Kuypers from the lip camera reading her poem 7/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

the Café’s mini feature video
of “Celebrating with Song”
of Kuypers reading her poem “Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes”, then her covering (in the style of MFV’s “stripped” version of this cover) the Eurythmics song “I Need You” (music pre-recorded by John Yotko), the poem “Decision” then her covering (in the style of MFV’s “slow” version of this cover) the Smiths song “London” (music pre-recorded by John Yotko), then the twitter-length poem “Choices”, followed by her poem “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me”

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video 7/12/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry @ Chicago’s the Café

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from the lip camera of Kuypers’ feature Celebrating with Song on 7/12/11 at the Café in Chicago.

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes

Rather read it? Then read Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes” (1:04) 7/12/11 live in Chicago at the Café.

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of Janet Kuypers from the lip camera reading her poem “Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes” (1:04) 7/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

Janet Kuypers singing/covering (in the style of MFV’s “stripped” version of this cover) the “stripped” version of the Eurythmics song
I Need You
(for MFV guitarist Warren Peterson’s Birthday)

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of Janet Kuypers singing/covering (in the style of MFV’s “stripped” version of this cover) the “stripped” version of the Eurythmics song I Need You (3:44, with John on guitar) live in Chicago at the Café.

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Decision

Rather read it? Then read Decision

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Decision” (1:20) 7/12/11 live in Chicago at the Café.

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of Janet Kuypers from the lip camera reading her poem “Decision” (1:20) 7/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

Janet Kuypers singing/covering (in the style of MFV’s “slow” version of this cover) the “slow” version of the Smiths song
London
(for MFV guitarist Warren Peterson’s Birthday)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers singing/covering (in the style of MFV’s “slow” version of this cover) the “slow” version of the Smiths song London (1:55, with John on guitar) live in Chicago at the Café.

Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem
Choices

Rather read it? Then read Choices

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Choices” (:14) 7/12/11 live in Chicago at the Café.

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of Janet Kuypers from the lip camera reading her poem <“Choices” (:14) 7/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me

Rather read it? Then read Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me” (1:49) 7/12/11 live in Chicago at the Café.

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of Janet Kuypers from the lip camera reading her poem “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me” (1:49) 7/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

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 2012, but it also contains recordings of two performance art shows — A Night of Firsts from 06/22/04, and Stripped from 07/12/12. 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 2012! You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations.

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