Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

1998

The First Half of the Year

Almost the Best Part

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(:52) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

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Being God
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to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

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from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

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(3:12) at the live Jesse Oaks live
“UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

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of this poem read over video of her walking around a Serbian church and gravesite in Gurnee, Illinois 01/03/11

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03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

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3/5/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

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of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

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(34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (from the book Get Your Buzz On) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (from the book Get Your Buzz On) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God Threshold (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon Power Shot, Posterize)

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See YouTube video (Nikon CoolPix S7000) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God 12/20/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video 12/20/15 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Being God, Looking For A Worthy Adversary, and True Happiness in the New Millennium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Violence There & Quibbling over Religion, and Being God at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Burning Building
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live at Cafe Aloha 03/12/02

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read live 3/12/02
at Cafe Aloha
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(1:39) live, Mercury Cafe, Chicago 11/30/07

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(2:10) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

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of Kuypers reading Present and Past and Burning Building at the open mike 3/28/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

Carpet

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Death is a Dog

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3:32, 7/11 talk & poem, from the show 6/11 06/11/02

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The poems (I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well and Death is a Dog, 4:11) at the Jesse Oaks Lake County Politically UNcorrect poetry open mike on 05/24/07

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(2:18) at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07

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read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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1:54, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) from the house camera

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) from the Kodak camera

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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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of Kuypers performng poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Kuypers performng poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of 4 mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where Janet Kuypers reads this poem in a “last minute” mini-feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video 6/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Death is a Dog, and What I Want to Know and I Dreamt About You Last Night at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Death Takes Many Forms.
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe
This poem is at the Belinda Subraman Guest Poet web page

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the Burning and Death Takes Many Forms
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of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

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(10/03/06, TV show, the Lake County Poets Society, on TV 4 times, 12/06)

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11/17/99, live at the mini feature at, Yammer, hosted by Lisa Hemminger

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the Poems The Burning & Death Takes Many Forms from the 06/11/02 show 6/11
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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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(5:22) from the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Get Your Buzz On , live 03/01/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 03/01/11 open mic at the Café Chicago, &poems “Eating”, “Weren’t Even Married”, and “Death Takes Many Forms”

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of this poem read over video of her walking through the snowy woods in Gurnee, Illinois 01/03/11

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03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

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3/5/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

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of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

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(34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

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read 08/02/11, live at the Café in Chicago

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of her reading her death-themed poems 08/02/11 “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” and “Death Takes Many Forms” at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 08/02/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poems “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” and “Death Takes Many Forms”

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of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading poetry (including this poem) at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from Francois Le Roux)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, and live piano from Gary)

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of this poem performed live at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12

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of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12

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of this poem performed live at the “Green Mill” (home of the Chicago Uptown Poetry Slam) 5/20/12

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of this Kuypers reading the poem (from memory) live 1/26/13 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death Takes Many forms. live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death Takes Many Forms from memory live in Chicago 10/31/13 at Poe-Pourri in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death Takes Many Forms from memory live in Chicago 10/31/13 at Poe-Pourri in Chicago (with a watercolor filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death Takes Many Forms in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon Power Shot), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Entering the Lake of Fire, unless it happens to you, Open Book, electromagnetism, an edited version of the poem Everything was Alive and Dying, Death Takes Many Forms, and Under the Sea.

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of the NEW poems read 9/2/15 at the Café Gallery show in Chicago

See YouTube video (Nikon CoolPix S7000) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death Takes Many Forms 12/20/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video 12/20/15 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death Takes Many Forms and singing the Stevie Ray Vaughan song Life by the Drop (with John on guitar) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

See YouTube video 7/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems Climbing Trees and Death Takes Many Forms at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 7/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems Climbing Trees and Death Takes Many Forms at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (tCanon Power Shot camera).

Fantastic Car Crash

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02

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bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2004

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4:09, performed live for a CD recording, parts of the song What We Need In Life before the poem Fantastic Car Crash 05/19/07

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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

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of Kuypers reading this poem with Esteban Colon 8/1/12 at Chicago ’s the Café Gallery (Gary piano, on Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem with Esteban Colon 8/1/12 at Chicago ’s the Café Gallery (Gary piano, on Sony)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 8/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her performing this poem

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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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of Kuypers performng poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Kuypers performng poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of 4 mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where Janet Kuypers reads this poem in a “last minute” mini-feature

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of Kuypers reading this poem live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

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of Kuypers reading a set of poems (“the Burning” and 3 near-death accident-related poems) live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fantastic Car Crash in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

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w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 8/2/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Canon, posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference (to John Y.’s music), then reading her poems Fantastic Car Crash and Too Far 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fantastic Car Crash 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing poetry and song (with John on guitar) 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with her song What We Need In Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside the song),
X-rays and broken hearts, & the Burning.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 4 songs (with John on guitar) 1/29/16 (C) at the Round Rock music open mic at the American Legion, covering Morrissey’s There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends, Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking, the Chruch’s Under the Milky Way, & singing her MFV song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash).

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems from memory, Too Far, Fantastic Car Crash, and Under the Sea 6/26/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

Holding My Hand
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2:42, with 2 poems read: Holding My Hand & The Burning (live @ the Cafe)

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(1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

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read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09

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read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09

See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand

I Dreamt About You Last Night
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Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)

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(1:51) live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

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(4:07) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa)

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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 music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung Camera

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of Kuypers reading the poems “Touching Cobalt” and PART of the poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/24/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night”

See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a cappella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped & saturated).

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I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well

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The poems (I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well and Death is a Dog, 4:11) at the Jesse Oaks Lake County Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic (n. of Chicago) on 05/24/07

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read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09

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03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

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Isn’t It Amazing
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3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha
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(2:15, 06/13/07)

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Let the War Begin

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(1:29) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

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(1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

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Looking For A Worthy Adversary
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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read live on her wedding day (May 7, 2000)

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Live at the Cafe,
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6:11 at the live Jesse Oaks live
“UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02

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of the Cutting Room Floor at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

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of the 1st 10 minutes of the show the Cutting Room Floor, at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

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of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show with this poem at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary (from Canon)

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Mixing Metaphors
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(2:13) studio session “etc.” book reading
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(1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

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Panther

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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

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Present and Past

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written with Chad Maier - springtime

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the Kitchen

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(:59) studio session “etc.”
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(1:36) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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(13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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Timing Is Everything
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(1:39) live at Mercury Cafe,
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True Happiness in the New Millennium
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(10/03/06, the Lake County Poets Society, on TV 4 times 12/06)

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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

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4:48, at Chicago’s “The Spot” 9/4/06

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(3:39) Live at the 11/09/07 show at Hokin Gallery The Turn of the Word, Chicago

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11/09/07 Chicago’s Hokin Gallery 7:54

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read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery poetry open mic

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems True Happiness in the New Millennium, Just Desperationand Other Souls at the 5 year anniv. of the open mic Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cfs)

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Weren’t Even Married

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of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

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What Women Want

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