Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

2011

Basic Investment Question

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.

Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of this poem read live in her Pilsen feature “Games We Play” 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo (music from Francois Le Roux, the HA!man of South Africa)

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“Games We Play”, w/ this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

Before I can Put a Smile on my Face Again

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See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

Before it Occurred to Me

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(1:00) read w/ Jenene Ravesloot live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video from the intro to the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, & her short story Stalker

See YouTube video of two mini-features at the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, 1st of her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, then of her short story Stalker

Broke the Reflection

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(1:09) live 05/11/11 at “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” Chicago open mic

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

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video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11

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read live 12/04/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of the intro to the 12/04/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading the poems Broke the Reflection, Gonna Break, and Mechanical Soldiers

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read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mike in Chicago
(from the Samsung)

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read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mike in Chicago
(from the Sony)

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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/ by live piano music from Gary)

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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)

Conflicting Convictions

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Live in Chicago at the Café

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of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

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of the intro to the 07/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with the poems “Unconscious” and “Conflicting Convictions”

Dentist in Iraq (twitter-length poem)

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Eat Me Alive

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Elephants Carry the World

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(1:41) live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago

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

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Eleven and Two, plus Eight

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of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

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video 07/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her feature Astronomy 101 @ Chicago’s the Café

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feature chapbook Astronomy 101

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 (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

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End of an Empire

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(1:22) live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago

Envision It in the Night Sky

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video 07/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her feature Astronomy 101 @ Chicago’s the Café

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feature chapbook Astronomy 101

Escape My Brain Somehow

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read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mike in Chicago
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Escaping Every Cage
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Live in Chicago at the Café

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of the intro to the 07/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with poems and her Close Cover Before Striking poems

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to a DMJ Art Connection release of music to this poem, read by Oz Hardwick

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Escaping Every Cage 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Escaping Every Cage 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

Even With no Wish Bone (vegetarian Thanksgiving poem, with haiku verses)

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).

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of Janet Kuypers reading the 1^st haiku verse of her poem Even With no Wish Bone as a looping JKPoetryVine video (on Thanksgiving, 11/26/15, Samsung, in Austin Texas)

film the cheerleaders

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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

Gonna Break

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read live 12/04/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of the intro to the 12/04/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading the poems Broke the Reflection, Gonna Break, and Mechanical Soldiers

Human Construct of Time
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released

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of take 1 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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of take 2 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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of take 3 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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of take 4 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung)

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Human Construct of Time 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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Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Human Construct of Time from v121 of Down in the Dirt magazine (titled “I Pull the Strings”) live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading the beginning of human construct of time from Scars Publications’ “need to know” 2015 literary date book 12/31/15 in Austin Texas.

In These Times

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of her reading this poem 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Sony), for Chicago Calling

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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 her poem readings 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling

It’s Someone’s Job

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l(1:44) live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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keep looking for death

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

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of 3 death-related poems (including this one) live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

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read live 11/27/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Letting Ourselves Go

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video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

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video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

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Look at the Downs

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of the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

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video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

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video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

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Made Any Difference

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of Kuypers singing this poem 06/28/11 on WZRD radio (C. Schandelmeier & John Yotko singing back-up)

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video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

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of this in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

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of the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

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video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

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video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

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performed live (John Yotko back-up vocals and rain stick) at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11

See the full YouTube video of Triple Threat at Trunk Fest, live 07/24/11, which includes this writing

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of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

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video of many poems (including this one) read 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo from the live feature

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of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera)

See this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)

See this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Canon Camera)

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read live 11/20/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” (including this piece) live 11/20/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko)

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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 guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko), from the Samsung Camera

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko), from the Kodak Camera

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live at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago, with John Yotko on guitar 12/18/11

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung)

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony)

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of this poem sung (w/ John Y. on guitar) as the 1st performer at the last show at Café Mestizo 4/21/12

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of this poem sung live (John guitar) 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 Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music from Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement, off their Album “the Minstral Show” called “Dinner Date”, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music she created for her 2004 “Dreams” show while she spoke with an alternate male voice, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, with music that the HA!man of South Africa created for her performance of this poem (which was filmed from the Canon)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 7/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus multiple versions of this poem & song

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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/1/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with live piano from Gary, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/1/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with live piano from Gary, from the 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 singing this poem 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (to John’s song, with John on guitar and piano from Gary, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (to John’s song, with John on guitar and piano from Gary, from the Sony)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece

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of Kuypers performing this poem/song (w/ John’s original song on guitar) 8/29/12 at the singer/songwriter night at the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (from the Canon)

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of Kuypers performing this poem/song (w/ John’s original song on guitar) 8/29/12 at the singer/songwriter night at the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (from the Sony)

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of this poem sung live with a jazz band 5/12/13 at the uptown open mic at the Green Mill in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Made Any Difference” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

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the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

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of Janet Kuypers singing her song/poem Made Any Difference in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

See YouTube video
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

Download this free chapbook of the
Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

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of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference poem (w/ John on acoustic guitar) live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon, balance, crop, saturate)

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of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference poem (w/ John on acoustic guitar) live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon, balance)

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of Kuypers singing this poem Made Any Difference with other originals and covers in her last music show in Chicago 7/22/15 at the Café Gallery (which was filmed from the Canon fs200)

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)

Listen as Janet Kuypers reads her poem Made Any Difference with music by Andy Derryberry and art by Davis Michael Jackson

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Nikon CoolPix S7000), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Canon Power Shot), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/15/16 at Round Rock’s music open mic at the American Legion (Nikon CoolPix S7000), with covers of George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and their original Made Any Difference.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/15/16 at Round Rock’s music open mic at the American Legion (Canon Power Shot), with covers of George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and their original Made Any Difference.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing Keeping a Record of Going Too Far, Made Any Difference (to John’s song), and How People Interpret My Words 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Leonard Cohen’s Coming Back to You, her poem Made Any Difference, the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her poem Under the Sea (set to Beatles music), & George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise) 2/16/16 at The Uptown Social open mic in Georgetown TX (N).

See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 (C) at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s Th Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 5/15/16 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s covering Sinead O’Conor’s Black Boys on Mopeds, then with California musician Kevin Marin joining them on harmonica w/ the Smiths’ London, and their song Made Any Difference (on a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and her poem Made Any Difference 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park music and poetry event in Austin (Sony).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and her poem Made Any Difference (cut off) 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park music and poetry event in Austin TX (Cps).

mechanical soldiers (twitter-length poem)

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read live 12/04/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of the intro to the 12/04/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading the poems Broke the Reflection, Gonna Break, and Mechanical Soldiers

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

My First Time

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written & read 06/07/11, live at the Café

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video (21:47) of Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café

This mini-feature video (which contains a reading of this writing) can also be seen at
Chicago People

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of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

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

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video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11

My New Grocery List (twitter-length poem)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My New Grocery List live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C)

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9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon)

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“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

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No Compunction
This poem was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release sea drift for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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(7:18) live 10/31/11 at Café Ballou in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem No Compunction live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

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Ogilvie

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read live 12/11/11, 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 the intro to the 12/11/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her new poem & poems from her book Contents Under Pressure (music from the HA!man of South Africa)

On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole (twitter-length poem)

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(:35) live 04/05/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 04/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicag as well as original writing, including this piece

On a High Horse Like This
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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(2:23) live 05/11/11 at “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” Chicago open mic

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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read live at Café Mestizo 1/21/12, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) open mike in Chicago

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of her reading “Upstage Everyone Else” and “on a High Horse Like This” live at Café Mestizo 1/21/12, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) open mike in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On a High Horse Like This (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 On a High Horse Like This (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square), Threshold

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On a High Horse Like This from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On a High Horse Like This from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs200, FlCrSat)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Everything was Alive and Dying and On a High Horse Like This 1/10/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot).

one by one, the beech trees fell
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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(1:17) live 05/17/11 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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read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems one by one, the beech trees fell, Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale, and My Future Job Options 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).

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.

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On This Ride (a “two tweet” twitter-length poem)

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read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released

our lady of humility’s hypocrisy (twitter-length poem)

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live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in Evanston IL feature 06/25/11

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of the lip xam of Kuypers hearing Rex read this in Chicago before her feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

refuse in a single church

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the Waiting4the Bus open mic in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the Waiting4the Bus open mic in Chicago (from the Samsung camera)

Ruminating (twitter-length poem)

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“6 Second Poems”,
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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku ruminating as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon fs200, heat wave filter)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku ruminating as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon fs200 video camera)

Skittery (“two tweet” twitter-length poem)

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written & read 06/07/11, live at the Café

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This mini-feature video (which contains a reading of this writing) can also be seen at
Chicago People

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of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

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Supposed to Make Sense

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read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released

Unconscious

(1:31, 07/12/11)
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Live in Chicago at the Café

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of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café

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of the intro to the 07/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with the poems “Unconscious” and “Conflicting Convictions”

Universe... Now In Color

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of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

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video 07/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her feature Astronomy 101 @ Chicago’s the Café

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feature chapbook Astronomy 101

Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me

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

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video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11

(1:49, 07/12/11)
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Live in her feature Celebrating with Song at the Café in Chicago

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of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café in her feature Celebrating with Song

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video 07/12/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry at Chicago’s the Café weekly poetry open mic

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from the lip camera of Kuypers’ feature Celebrating with Song on 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago

Upstage Everyone Else

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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read live at Café Mestizo 1/21/12, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) open mike in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

Us, Actually Touching
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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read live 11/27/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of the intro to the 11/27/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching”

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung)

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

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of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

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of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching 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

Download this free chapbook of the
Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Michael Hoag feature 12/4/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem (Canon)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

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of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with Us, Actually Touching, Entering the Lake of Fire, & Unique Noise.

See YouTube video 4/27/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching) in her first appearance/interview on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (from a Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 4/27/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching) in her first appearance/interview on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (from a Sony).

See YouTube video 4/27/16 of part 2 of the Janet Kuypers interview (with her reading her two poems Entering the Lake of Fire and Us, Actually Touching), in her first appearance on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

You Carried It

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(1:40) live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Edge Detection filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Sepia Tone filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Film Age (older) filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Threshold filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

You’ve Killed Me

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

you’ve left me on Siesta Beach

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

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of 3 death-related poems (including this one) live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

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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 reading this poem at the open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary)

poetry compiled from 2006 poetry about the passing of her mother
(for an October 2011 show, performing with the HA!man of South Africa):
Remembering Death

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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 performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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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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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 Sony)

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read live 11/27/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

poetry converted from 1994 prose:
dreams turned into nightmares

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 06/25/11

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Guilt

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/14/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

poetry converted from 2005 prose:
From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon

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of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

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feature chapbook Astronomy 101

Travel Through Space

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of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

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feature chapbook Astronomy 101

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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