the Café Gallery

Below are videos from a April 29 2015 (4/29/15, or 20150429)
evening of poetry at the Café Gallery, at Gallery Cabaret...





the open mic 4/29/15
at the Café Gallery
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of Janet Kuypers hosting the poetry open mic 4/29/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago




Janet Kuypers reads poems from various writers from
cc&d v254, “Idea
(Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s poem “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s poem “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s poem “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cps)
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cfs200)




poems from the cc&d readings...

Janet Kuypers reads her poem
jabbed into an open nerve
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jabbed into an open nerve
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Janet Kuypers reads her poem
JY asks
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Janet Kuypers reads her poem
Observing Theories
of the Universe
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Observing Theories of the Universe
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poems she read (originally in her feature “Love” 4/10/15)...

Janet Kuypers reads her poem
eyes
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (video recorded with a Canon fs200 video camera)
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Janet Kuypers reads her poem
Jihadists and Astrophysics
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Jihadists and Astrophysics
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poems she read (originally in her “Poetry Bomb”
feature “Bases Loaded” 4/26/15)...

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Entire Town’s Baseball Team
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Entire Town’s Baseball Team
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entire Town’s Baseball Team live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere
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Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere
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...and one poem to close out the evening.

Janet Kuypers reads her poem
Under the Sea
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the Café Gallery




    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.

 
Live at the Café - 3 disc set



 
Dobro Veče - 3 disc set

    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.

 
“hmmm” - 4 disc set live at the Café



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