the Café Gallery

Below are videos from a April 1 2015 (4/1/15, or 20150401) evening of poetry at the Café Gallery, at Gallery Cabaret...

the open mic 4/1/15 at the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the Tom Roby feature and the poetry open mic 4/1/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Janet Kuypers reads poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v128, “Black Cat” (Including Donald Gaither’s poem “Untitled (cat)”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku “bruised”, and John Grey’s poem “Hands in the Cement”, AND Bob Rashkow reading Doug Draime’s poem “24 Hour Surrender”)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v128, “Black Cat” (Including Donald Gaither’s poem “Untitled (cat)”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku “bruised”, and John Grey’s poem “Hands in the Cement”, AND Bob Rashkow reading Doug Draime’s poem “24 Hour Surrender”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

Janet Kuypers reads poems from various writers from the “need to know” 2014 literary date book (including Fritz Hamiton’s “Now that my son Todd is dead”, Michael Ceraolo’s “Are you receiving Me?”, and Michael Cluff’s “Hands in the Cement”)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from the “need to know” 2014 literary date book (including Fritz Hamiton’s “Now that my son Todd is dead”, Michael Ceraolo’s “Are you receiving Me?”, and Michael Cluff’s “Hands in the Cement”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

Janet Kuypers reads her haiku poem bruised

Rather read it? Then read the poem bruised

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem bruised live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem bruised live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Janet Kuypers reads her haiku poem Lucille Ann

Rather read it? Then read the poem Lucille Ann

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See a Vine video of of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See a Vine video of of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Janet Kuypers reads her poem old school and high-tech monuments

Rather read it? Then read the poem old school and high-tech monuments

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem old school and high-tech monuments live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem old school and high-tech monuments live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live performances are included in Live at the Café 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, including iTunes.

There is also a (more recent) 4 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 4 CD set of live performances are included in Dobro Veče (“Good Evening” in Serbian) includes not only recordings from 2006, 2007 and 2008, but it also contains past Poetry Wheels, and recordings of performance art shows like Twitter Inside at Regina’s Place in Logan Square 5/21/10. Bonus tracks include live recordings from at the Chicago State University Power Networking for Success show, as well as Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus). You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, like iTunes.

There is also a 4 CD set of the final performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 4 CD set of live performances are included in “hmmm” includes not only recordings from 2010 and 2011, but it also contains recordings of different performance art shows, including her final show ever performed at the Café on 27/271/11, titled “hmmm”. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Cafe Ballou, Cafe Mestizo, Beach Poets, and more... You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, including amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.