Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

damned green
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Darmstadtium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Darmstadtium in Chicago 10/20/13 at her Pilsen Periodically mini-feature

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David

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(1:27) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

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(3:29) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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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.

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dead grass fires

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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).

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).

Deal With That Over The Years

death

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(1:19) 02/26/08, live at the Cafe in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death (from the book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Death (from the book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite) in Chicago 11/24/13 (posterize filter) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

Death and a Diamond Ring

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

Death is a Dog

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

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

from the Internet Archive

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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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to this recording from Fusion

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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

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

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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

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 Power Shot)

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 Sentence

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/15/09

Death Takes Many Forms.
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
This poem is at the Belinda Subraman Guest Poet web page

(5:21)
the Burning and Death Takes Many Forms
from the show 6/11 06/11/02

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to the CD recording for the 06/11/02 show 6/11

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

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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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Live at the Cafe,
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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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from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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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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from the Internet Archive

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to this recording from Fusion

(6:46)
the Poems The Burning & Death Takes Many Forms from the 06/11/02 show 6/11
from the Internet Archive

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from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
off the CD an american portrait

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

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(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

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(23:58) from the Internet Archive

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(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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(4:43, of just the poem) 03/05/11 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)

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 2)

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 (S, take 1)

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 (S, take 2)

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.

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 Power Shot), with her poems Entering the Lake of Fire, unless it happens to you, Open Book, electromagnetism, an edited version of her 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 SuperPix 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 SuperPix 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).

decision

(1:20, 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

decorating the lockers

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

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(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

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(23:58) from the Internet Archive

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from the poems about mom - decorating the palm trees

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

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video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam

defenses (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of poet Bruce Matteson reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku defenses live 6/2/14 in Chicago

See YouTube video of Bruce Matteson (C, posterized) on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku defenses in the “Partial Nudity” book show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Bruce Matteson (S, posterized) on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku defenses in the “Partial Nudity” book show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

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of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku defenses with the Down in the Dirt magazine / book the Breaking while she was blindfolded 5/19/16 in Austin TX.

Deity Discipline

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(:14, 6/15/07)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Deity Discipline, You Can’t Tell and a poem she wrote there, just before reading, Quieted Soul, and then she closed by reading the Ai poem The Good Shepherd at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Dentist in Iraq (twitter-length poem)

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

Depression (from the “Depression... The singlesy” series)

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See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the first part of her poem depression (originally in her books Partial Nudity and twitterati) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the second part of her poem depression (originally in her books Partial Nudity and twitterati) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the first part of her poem depression (originally in her books twitterati and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the second part of her poem depression (originally in her books twitterati and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

Depth of Field

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose a Life Goes By from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose a Life Goes By from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Depth of Field from v251 of cc&d magazine, Approaching Front, live 10/8/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Depth of Field from v251 of cc&d magazine, Approaching Front, live 10/8/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Depth of Field from the book Need to Know Basis (extended edition) live 1/7/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from Canon video camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the Café Gallery open mic & Patrick Hurley show 1/7/15 at Gallery Cabaret’ in Chicago, INCLDING THIS POEM

Desire

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live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest

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12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video
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(1:12) 10/15/07 Peter Jones art gallery, Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/16/11 on WZRD radio (filmed from the Canon camera)

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10/16/11 of the Janet Kuypers appearance on WZRD radio, with her talking about and reading poetry, which includes this poem performed live (filmed from the Canon camera)

Desirous

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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

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destroy (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video (C) of Michael Hoag reading the Janet Kuypers haiku destroy in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

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of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem destroy (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem destroy (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

Diane Talking About Her Trip
To Mexico City
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears

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(:40) Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

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of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

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of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Diane Talking About Her Trip To Mexico City live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

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of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Diane Talking About Her Trip To Mexico City live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

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of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/21/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Diburnium (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Diburnium in her Chicago Calling Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/8/14 at Cup & Spoon (C)

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Crossing Borders for International
(and Interplanetary) Peace chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Diburnium in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Diburnium in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

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of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show
“Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200), of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem

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of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show
“Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem

Did you know I was watching?
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

See YouTube video of a compilation of Janet Kuypers’ poems Holding My Skin Together, Any Help At All, conversations three (a day of grieving), transcribing dreams one, the flashback, By Who I Don’t Know, and Did you know I was watching? in the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 8/26/08, Chicago

Didn’t Know What it Was

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

difference (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of poet Jackie Wolk reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku defenses live 6/2/14 in Chicago

See YouTube video (C) of Jackie Wolk on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku difference in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Jackie Wolk on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku difference in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

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of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem difference (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem difference (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku difference from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine 5/30/16.

Dilithium (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Dilithium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Dilithium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dilithium live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dilithium live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Dive

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(1:28) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

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(1:24) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

DNA and Carbon, in Asteroids (oh my) (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

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of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)

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of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (C)

Watch YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series back and forth with poems by Buddha309 in Science vs. Mysticism, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)

Download this poem in the free PDF file
Science vs. Mysticism chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Do I Still

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

Do That For Me Then
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis w/ C Ra McGuirt

do you know

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Do You Still Want To See Me

Doctors, Breast Implants
and Huge Pectoral Muscles

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read before the Kevin Michael Wehle poem Home live at the Cafe 11/10/09

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Doesn’t Like Being Alone (from 09/12/06)

domestic violence in america (nose)
2012 translation of this poem in Slovak: domáce násilie v Amerike, Nashville, Tennessee (nos)
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
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live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

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domestic violence in america (stick)
2012 translation of this poem in Slovak: domáce násilie v Amerike, Nashville, Tennessee (palica)
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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

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from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
off the CD an american portrait

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

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(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

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(23:58) from the Internet Archive

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05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)

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of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)

don’t (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku don’t in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

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“India Stories”,
w/ poems read to music on 3/14/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku don’t 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 haiku don’t from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

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Don’t Forget to Write

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live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago

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Don’t Go To Denny’s

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Don’t Go To Denny’s 5/22/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Where Does The Love Go, Don’t Go To Denny’s and Like I Was Never There 5/22/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot camera).

Don’t Need The Crutches
2012 translation of Don’t Need The Crutches - in Slovak: “Nepotrebujem barly”

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

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Experimental Poetry: Door Frame

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Down the Drain
Down the Drain - in Chinese
Down the Drain - in Russian

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Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09

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(camera #1, 07/06/09)
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read live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

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Watch this Complete feature video of the FULL SHOW of most everyone live 10/04/11 at the Café for Chicago Calling, including Kuypers performing poetry with music & video

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Dream 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl

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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

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Aeon Flux Crawl” 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”

Dreams 01/14/04
Dreams 01/16/04
Dreams 01/17/04
Dreams 01/18/04
Dreams 01/19/04 one

Dreams 01/19/04 two, AKA
Dream One: Dog Stuck to my Face

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/06/09

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from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Dog Stuck to my Face” 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”

Dreams 01/19/04 three

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(1:20) the television screen broadcast from the Chicago performance art show Dreams , live 02/03/04

Dreams 02/10/04
Dreams 02/12/04
Dreams 02/13/04

Dreams 2/20/04 two, for Charlie Trotter 11/5/13

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Dreams 2/20/04 two, for Charlie Trotter 11/5/13 live 11/6/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 11/6/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus reading this poem

Dreams 02/20/04 one
Dreams 02/20/04 two
Dreams 03/08/04

Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/06/09

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Dreams 03/19/04 one
Dreams 03/19/04 two

Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight)

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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).

Dreams 05/26/05
Dreams 09/06/05

Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)

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05/10/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books Unknown and Sexism and Other Stories and in cc&d mag v220, the 05/11 issue)

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of the intro to the 05/10/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus the cover of I’m Free at Last & the poems And I’m Wondering & Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)

Dreams 01/31/06
Dreams 02/01/06

Dreams 02/05/06 (Lip Synch)

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/08/09

Dreams 02/06/06

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/17/09

Dreams 02/07/06

Dreams 02/10/06 (Hank)

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Dreams 03/11/06 one, two and three
Dreams 03/12/06

Dreams 03/16/06 (Jerry Springer)

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Dreams 03/21/06
Dreams 04/26/06, Stephanie Mason (the poker poem)
Dreams 04/29/06, employee written up
Dreams 04/29/06, hotel flirting
Dreams 05/03/06
Dreams 08/30/06 — Forgot to Pack
Dreams 09/03/06, The Room Is A Boat 09/03/06
Dreams 09/04/06, Original High School Pot 09/04/06
Dreams 09/11/06 Incorporating Life Into Dreams
Dreams 09/14/06 Ice Cream and a Cat
Dreams 09/17/06 #1 Carting a Man in Shock
Dreams 09/17/06 #2 Dad Talking To Me
Dreams 12/28/06 #2 Jump Out of the Ship

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).

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Dreams 09/07/07

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read live at the Cafe 7/8/08

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(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).

Dreams 09/08/07

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/01/10

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of the Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 09/08/07, after the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/01/10

Dreams 08/24/08

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live at the Café in Chicago 02/02/10

Dreams 12/22/08:
the Indescribable Infant
is it a fish? is it an animal? is it human?

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(studio session 03/16/09)

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/01/09

Dreams 12/3/12

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of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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of Kuypers reading the poems Dreams 12/3/12 and Garret’s Lament 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/30/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poetry (including this poem)

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of Bob Rashkow reading this Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 12/3/12 in cc&d mag, v244 live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Bob Rashkow reading this Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 12/3/12 in cc&d mag, v244 live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Dreams 12/6/12

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 12/6/12 from cc&d mag, v244 (the July/August 2013 issue) live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 12/6/12 from cc&d mag, v244 (the July/August 2013 issue) live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S, with the Film Age - Older fli==ilter)

dreams turned into nightmares (Based on a 1994 short story)

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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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Drinking Coffee

Drinking Their Life Away

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

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of the first third of the Chicago feature Twtter Inside 05/21/10 with this writing

Driving Car Into Ditch
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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drowning (haiku, on twitter)

See YouTube video of the haiku poem drowning, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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Dubnium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Dubnium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Dubnium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Dubnium live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Dubnium live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

Dysprosium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera), including this poem

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of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem