Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

poems about mom

A Happy Ending To Everything

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem a Happy Ending to Everything 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem a Happy Ending to Everything/U> 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Brother, and Sister, and Father of Mine

Death Sentence

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/15/09

Dreams 08/30/06 — Forgot to Pack

Drinking Coffee

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

Every Minute I Can Get

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llive at the Café in Chicago 03/23/10

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of the open mic intro at the Café in Chicago 03/23/10 & the poem Every Minute I Can Get

Fifteen Minutes

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Gin

Her Blood Is Evaporating

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live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08

If She’s There

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem
If She’s There 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem
If She’s There 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cfs), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cps), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe.

I’ll Push The Cart

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’ll Push the Cart 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’ll Push the Cart 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

I’m Tired

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/24/09

Life Can Slip Away

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live at Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus, w/ Buddha 309) in Chicago 05/03/10

Listening to the Cancer Ads

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Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

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Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

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Manic Depressive or Something

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Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

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Mommy’s Not Leaving

My Memorials To You

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Memorials to You 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Memorials to You 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Nothing Really Matters
Pain Is Weakness/Pain Is A Crutch

PDQ in Tin Foil

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago (Cfs), w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter.

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago (Cps), w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter.

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Poetic Shades of Chocolate

w/ poems read 6/20/15 at 10 Shades of Chocolate show in Chicago

Planting Palm Tree Seeds

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

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Farewell Chicago

of this & other poems read 8/14/15 at a live Chicago show

Really Physically Heal

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Remembering Your Involvement

Rings Like Gravestones

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Rings like Gravestones 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Rings like Gravestones 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

She’s Going Home

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem
She’s Going Home 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem
She’s Going Home 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon PS)

She’s Made Her Choice

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/24/09

So Don’t Worry

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/29/10

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of is poem (read from the book the Beauty and the Destruction, now on sale) and the intro to the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/29/10

So I’m Left Confused
The Last Time He Sees Her Alive
The Worst Nightmare Ever
This Isn’t Fair
This Is What It’s Reduced To Now

This is What You Leave Me

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem This is What you Leave Me 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem This is What you Leave Me 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Tickle-Me Elmo
Videotaping Accident Recollections

We’re Trying

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem We’re Trying 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem We’re Trying 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

We’re Your Children

Wither Away

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Your Soul is Shaking

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(1:21) 10/15/07 Peter Jones art gallery in Chicago.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Your Soul is Shaking at the open mike 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from the Sony camera).

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of Kuypers’ open mike 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poems, including this one (w/ live piano from Gary)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Your Soul is Shaking (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200), of 14 poem readings about her mother

See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 14 poem reading about her mother

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

poems written on her passing, 08/31/06:

The Messenger

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

Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church
(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago

(23:58) from the Internet Archive

You van also watch the above St. Paul’s Chicago 11/05/08 show video at PoetryVidualized

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of the Messenger (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem The Messenger, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

Download this poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

Death and a Diamond Ring

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live at Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus, w/ Buddha 309) in Chicago 05/03/10

Final Rally

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of final rally (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem Final Rally, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

Seven Ten, Seven Twenty

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poems about mom, going to her home after her death (sorted by date written)

from 09/01/06:
Coping With Her Leaving

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Letting Time Tick By

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Letting Time Tick By 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Letting Time Tick By 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

“The Power To Tell Her”/“The Power To See Her”

See YouTube video 9/12/15 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 9/12/1 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (from a Canon Power Shot, w/ a heat wave filter).

Soaring So High

The Good Ones

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Sony

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Canon

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of Kuypers’ open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ live piano from Gary), which includes this poem

from 09/03/06:
It Must Have Been On Sale

Knelt and Cried

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Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

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

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

from 09/04/06:
We’re Not Making Any More Appointments

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Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

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from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive

Where the Blackberries Came From
Even Though I Didn’t See It
Clouds Over Blue Sky’s

from 09/05/06:
Ingrained In Your Head

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ingrained in Your Head 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ingrained in Your Head 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

It Hurts in the Bones

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of It Hurts in the Bones (2015 edit) (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

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“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

Wanting to Touch a Corpse

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Wanting to Touch a Corpse 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Wanting to Touch a Corpse 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

from 09/06/06:
More Painful to Experience

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem More Painful to Experience 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem More Painful to Experience 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Harder To Burn

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live at Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus, w/ Buddha 309) in Chicago 05/03/10

from 09/08/06:
Where Else Would I Be
Making the Bed

from 09/09/06:
Flowers on the Tables
Wearing Her Jewelry

Story Telling

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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem Story Telling at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey

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of Janet Kuypers (C, posterize) reading her poem Story Telling at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey

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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem Story Telling at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey

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of Janet Kuypers (S, edge detection) reading her poem Story Telling at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Story Telling live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Story Telling live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (Canon Power Shot camera)

from 09/10/06:
Mother’s Day Flowers Forever

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Mother’s Day Flowers Forever 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Mother’s Day Flowers Forever 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Keeping Christmas Ornaments

from 09/11/06:
A Little Angel Inside

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read from her ISBN# book Distinguidhed Writing (the Kuypers edition) live 03/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 03/22/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/3/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers’ open mic intro 10/3/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, + poetry (including this piece)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of A Little Angel Inside (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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(plus additional poems) i
n the free chapbook
“Journey”,
containing poems read & recorded 3/28/15 at a Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park in Chicago.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems A Little Angel Inside, Whether Or Not It Is From Religion and The Power of the Devil at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (from a Canon Power Shot).

Just Let Her Rest

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It’s Just Not Right

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Just Not Right 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Just Not Right 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

from 09/14/06:
It’s Just Hard

from 09/17/06:
I Want To Get Out Of Here

about wedding Ivy her mother grew:
Everything Lives With Her (from 09/02/06)
The Death of my Ivy (from 09/07/06)
Doesn’t Like Being Alone (from 09/12/06)

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