Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

1993

children, churches and daddies
This poem was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release sea drift for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
children, churches and daddies - in Finnish: kinderen, kerken en vaders
This poem translation was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release idols for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN after her Tag Team feature reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading “Scars” and “Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after the Tag Team feature reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cps)

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of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

Coquinas
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

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(3:47) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

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from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger)

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of ther reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music bt the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Kodak Camera

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Samsung Camera

Farmer
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live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

In The Air
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in the mountains:

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(2:27) at the Denver airport 06/17/07 in Denver, Colorado

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(1:53) 07/17/07 from
Living in a Big World

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dipity’s “the Painted Tower”

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(3:47) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

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(6:54) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

the poetry audio CD set“Manic Depressive or Something”

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One Summer

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Oriental

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Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09

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of this poem 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera

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video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera

Slate and Marrow

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(2:57) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

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from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
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of her reading this poem 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling

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of Jeff Helgeson reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 4/2/12

the Flashback

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to this recording from Fusion

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live, the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of a compilation of Janet Kuypers’ poems Holding My Skin Together, Any Help At All, conversations three (a day of grieving), transcribing dreams one, the flashback, By Who I Don’t Know, and Did you know I was watching? in the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Flashback live 5/27/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

the muse, the messiah

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live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest

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12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Muse, the Messiah at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Muse, the Messiah at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot)

The Fourteenth

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of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j

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12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Samsung

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of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the Kodak)

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Fourteenth at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems The Fourteenth & Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation), and then her 2 poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name as one, at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (Cps).

the page

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C), including this poem

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Page (to inspiration) live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Page (to inspiration) {posterized} live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Cycle, Wedding Lost and the Page (to inspiration) from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at Austin’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon)

Wedding Lost

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real audio (.ra) file, performed live at Cafe Aloha 05/22/01.

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live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

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(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

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(23:58) from the Internet Archive

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White Knuckled
2012 translation of White Knuckled - in Slovak: “biele hánky”
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

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to this from the CD release
from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

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off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control

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Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set

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6:25, of these three poems (White Knuckled, Last Before Extinction and And I’m Wondering) at the Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic at Jesse Oaks in Lake County (north of Chicago) on 05/24/07

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(1:39) Live at the 11/09/07 show The Turn of the Word, Hokin Gallery, Chicago

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11/09/07 Chicago’s Hokin Gallery 7:54

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem White Knuckled (1:59) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control.

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12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem White Knuckled live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled and her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Copper read live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot)

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