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Below are text links and videos from a August 30, 2011 (8/30/11) evening of poetry readings at the Café...





the introduction to the Café
and Kuypers reading her poem “Watching my Father Die
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video of the intro to the 8/30/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her poem “Watching my Father Die




Janet Kuypers readin her short prose
Watching my Father Die
Rather read it? Then READ Watching my Father Die
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Watching my Father Die” live 8/30/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago.




BONUS: Jenene Ravesloot reading her poem
Spring And Not One Singing Bird Sestina Variation
(which appears in the October 2011 issue (v225)
of cc&d magazine
and the ISBN# book “Up In Smoke”
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read live 8/30/11, live at the Café in Chicago




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    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 08/30/05. 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




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