2007 poetry
Cast in Stone
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
 This poem appears in the 2008 Poetry Wall Calendar (in march 2008, with an image of two statues outdoors in Beijing, China) |
  Watch the YouTube video (1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07 |
Watch the YouTube video at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in front of the Parthenon, Nashville 12/22/08 |
  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Cast in Stone (from the book Taking Poetry to the Streets) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Cast in Stone (from the book Taking Poetry to the Streets) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago |
Dreams 01/28/07 (seeing mom)
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 1/28/07 (Seeing mom) 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 Dreams 1/28/07 (Seeing mom) 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera). |
Dreams 09/07/07
Watch this YouTube video read live at the Cafe 07/08/08 |
See the video of Now You’re Nothing To Me & Dreams 09/07/07 live 07/08/08 (6:48) This film is from the Internet Archive |
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 09/07/07, then covering (John on guitar) the Peter Gabriel Song Washing of the Water at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (Canon Power Shot). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 09/07/07, then covering (John on guitar) the Peter Gabriel Song Washing of the Water at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (from a Sony camera). |
Dreams 09/08/07
 Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/01/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 09/08/07, after the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/01/10 |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight), Dreams 09/08/07 and Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes) at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (Canon P. S.). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight), Dreams 09/08/07 and Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes) at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (from a Sony). |
Ending a Relationship (in haiku form)
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 Watch this YouTube video (:28, 06/12/07, live at the Cafe) |
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Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Ending a Relationship in Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine 5/30/16. |
Falling From the Sky
Watch this YouTube video (:56) in Longmont, Colorado 06/16/0 before jumpeding out of an airplane |
The YouTube video above is also at Poetry Visualized |
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| See the above YouTube video on the Scuba Channel |
Watch the YouTube video (2:31) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/16/08 |
Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach |
See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11 |
I’m Sure We Killed It
Watch this YouTube video (2:05, 06/12/07, live at the Cafe) |
Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
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Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach |
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See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11 |
Seven and Seven, plus eighteen
Watch this YouTube video 8:57, as a Christmas gift 12/18/07 at a Christmas tree for her husband |
Watch this YouTube video 7:52, read live at the Galapagos Islands 12/25/07 on a boat for her husband |
Watch the YouTube video live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets |
Watch the full video of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show at Beach Poets, from archive.org |
download the free chapbook Death ‘n’ Rebirthwith all of the writing in the live show |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her observer’s improv (S, based on the poems seven and seven, plus eighteen, observations: nine and six, ten and ten, plus two, eleven and two, plus eight, and observer’s love poem) live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her observer’s improv (C, based on the poems seven and seven, plus eighteen, observations: nine and six, ten and ten, plus two, eleven and two, plus eight, and observer’s love poem) live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery
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Well, I Didn’t Think About It
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/29/09 |
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