Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Each Half is the Enemy live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Each Half is the Enemy live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Each Half is the Enemy live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Each Half is the Enemy live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize filter)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Each Half is the Enemy 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, including this poem.

See YouTube video 6/26/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems, Vent, Each Half is the Enemy, and her Periodic Table poem Vanadium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken & Heard (w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

Each Morning

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

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Listen

to this radio recording
from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Listen

Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set

(~:32)
in Denver, CO 06/16/07

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the Internet Archive

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(:33) in Denver, CO 06/16/07

(~:34)
in Denver, CO 06/16/07

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the Internet Archive

Listen

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

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each of you carry one body each

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Rap Sheet” (Cfs) live at the Cafe Cabaret at Cafe Ballou in Chicago 6/19/15, with the poems each of you carry one body each, uncuffed and printed, Entering Courtroom 101, Vent, and only option is fighting.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Rap Sheet” (Cps) live at the Cafe Cabaret at Cafe Ballou in Chicago 6/19/15, with the poems each of you carry one body each, uncuffed and printed, Entering Courtroom 101, Vent, and only option is fighting.

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“Rap Sheet”, w/ poems performed
live 6/19/15 at Cafe Ballou, in the Cafe Cabaret (Chicago)

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Rap Sheet” Expanded Report,

with long versions of poems (and a bonus poem) in her “Rap Sheet” show 6/19/15 at Cafe Ballou, in the Cafe Cabaret (Chicago)

Earth is a Topiary

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin (Sony), first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin (Cps), first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman).

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

Earth was Crying

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Visions were Justified, Excuses for Skipping Work and Earth was Crying at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (from a Canon Power Shot).

easy (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku easy in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS HAIKU

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers’ haiku easy @ the pond @ Jan & Palos drives 6/5/15 (Motorola)

See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku easy from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

from poems with David Jarvie — eating

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

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(1:12) from the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Taking Poetry to the Streets, 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”

eating slices of white bread

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of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 new poems brewery, eating slices of white bread and Jumping from the Mausoleum 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Eat Me Alive

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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”

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

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

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook

egg drop soup (or a response to a love letter)

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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Hope Chest In The Attic
13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order
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this track from the DMJ Art Connection

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/03/09

egg for a week

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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”

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

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

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

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook

eight ball answers all (performance art for 10/7/14 Chicago improvisation show)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her improv of eight ball answers all live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her improv of eight ball answers all live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

eight people outside (twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading a shortened version of her poem Eight People Outside live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading a shortened version of her poem Eight People Outside live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

See a Vine video

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku eight people outside as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

Eight to Sixteen

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Eight to Sixteen live 10/8/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Eight to Sixteen live 10/8/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eight to Sixteen in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

Einsteinium (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 live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“for War and Country” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/12/12 (Canon) at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Einsteinium, Neon, & Nickel, recorded from a Canon video camera) read live in Chicago 12/12/12 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Einsteinium, Neon, & Nickel, recorded from a Motorola phone video camera) read live in Chicago 12/12/12 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Einsteinium read live in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers (Sony) reading the “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Tin, Einsteinium & Nobelium live in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Tin, Einsteinium & Nobelium in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night (Samsung)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Einsteinium 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with Einsteinium (#99, Ununseptium (#99), and Tellurium (#52).

electricity

See YouTube video of the poem electricity, 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)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin (Cps), first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin (Sony), first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity.

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Love in the Universe
5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin

electromagnetism

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.

Download poems in the free chapbook
Like a Lamb to the Slaughter

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), w/ Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon P.S.), with Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

Elephants Carry the World

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(1:41) 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

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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

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

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

Download this writing in the free 07/19/11 PDF
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

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

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

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

elusive (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem elusive from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem elusive from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

emergency room stories

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(1:49) from the 2011 6" x 9" ISBN# book Sexism and Other Stories, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 02/22/11 open mic at the Café Chicago, & her poetry in 2011 books, including this poem

Empty Chocolate Counter

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

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

Download these poems in the free chapbook
Poetic Shades of Chocolate

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

end (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku end live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku end live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

Ending a Relationship (in haiku form)

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rearrange the words... or make a new poem
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(:28, 06/12/07, live at the Cafe)

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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.

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End of an Empire

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

ends (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem ends from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem ends from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

enemies (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku enemies in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

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

energy (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku energy live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku energy live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Enough So Far
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Enough’s Enough

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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)

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

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

See YouTube video
of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/12/12 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (filmed with the Sony video camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Enough’s Enough in Chicago 8/19/13 at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers reading Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon, Film Age - Older)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers reading poems Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Samsung)

entering courtroom 101

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Rap Sheet”, w/ poems performed
live 6/19/15 at Cafe Ballou, in the Cafe Cabaret (Chicago)

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Rap Sheet” Expanded Report,

with long versions of poems (and a bonus poem) in her “Rap Sheet” show 6/19/15 at Cafe Ballou, in the Cafe Cabaret (Chicago)

Entering the Lake of Fire

Download poems in the free chapbook
Like a Lamb to the Slaughter

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), w/ Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon P.S.), with Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

See YouTube video live of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entering the Lake of Fire from memory 10/8/15 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa at Uncommon Ground in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Entering the Lake of Fire & New To Chicago from memory 10/8/15 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa at Uncommon Ground in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entering the Lake of Fire 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video
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 Entering the Lake of Fire 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 Entering the Lake of Fire in her first appearance/interview on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (from a Sony camera).

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.).

entire town’s baseball team

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entire Town’s Baseball Team (in the chapbook “Bases Loaded”) 4/26/15 (C) at Chicago’s 2015 Poetry Bomb (at Wrigley Field) filmed with a Canon Power Shot

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 4/26/15 show “Bases Loaded” just outside Wrigley Field at the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of poems relating to baseball - including this poem

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Bases Loaded”
w/ poems read on 4/26/15 at the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entire Town’s Baseball Team live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entire Town’s Baseball Team live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Envision It in the Night Sky

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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

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

Download this writing in the free 07/19/11 PDF
feature chapbook Astronomy 101

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

Watch YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Erbium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (C)

Watch YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Erbium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (S)

errors (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku errors live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku errors live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony camera)

escape (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem escape from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem escape from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
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 a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers’ escape haiku 6/4/15 (derived from her poem the muse, the messiah) @ the gazebo (Motorola)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Escape live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the October 2009 v201 issue of cc&d (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Escape live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the October 2009 v201 issue of cc&d (filmed with a Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video in Chicago of Janet Kuypers hosting the poetry open mic 7/22/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery, with her reading this piece

Escape

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(studio session 03/16/09)

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #1)

This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #2)

This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video
(:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)

See YouTube video
of Joffre Stewart reading Janet Kuypers’ poem Escape live 9/14/15 at the open mic Weeds in Chicago, from the October 2009 v201 issue of cc&d (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera)

Escape My Brain Somehow

Watch this YouTube video
(1:08) live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video
read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mic in Chicago
(from the Samsung)

Watch this YouTube video
read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mic in Chicago
(from the Sony)

Escaping Every Cage
see portions of this poem on Artvilla, read by Oz Hardwick in “Other Voices”.
Listen

Watch the YouTube video
of JUST Escaping Every Cage in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

Watch the YouTube video
of JUST Escaping Every Cage from the lip cam in the live feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

Watch the YouTube video
of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again in the 07/03/11 Beach Poets “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

Watch the YouTube video
of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again from the lip cam live 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

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

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

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook

(4:35, 07/03/11)
Or watch the YouTube video

Live in Chicago at the Café

See feature-length YouTube
video 07/05/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry @ Chicago’s the Café

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

Listen

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

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

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

See YouTube video (Cfs)
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

See YouTube video (Cps)
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

Escaping rapeugees

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Escaping rapeugees and Kinds of Torture 2/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

from the poems about mom - Especially at Breakfast

Published in Deep South (1996, New Zealand)

especially at breakfast - in Norwegian

This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in the Starite Cafe

edit this poem in wandering words...
rearrange the words... or make a new poem
either in Flash or in Java (Windows only)!

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

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

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

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

Etched into that Tombstone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/31/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, inlcuding this poem

eternal struggle

Watch this YouTube video

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

or see the full 10/07/09 Video

at the Palos Park Public Library of the Cutting Room Floor
via the Internet Archive

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

Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection

Watch this YouTube video

read live 11/20/11 at the Café open mic in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video

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

Etiquette for Tattooing Thigh “Bracelets”

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Etiquette for Tattooing Thigh Bracelets (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 at Jaks Tap in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 1 poem and 2 pieces of prose (including this piece) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 1 poem and 2 pieces of prose (including this piece) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 in Chicago (S)

Eugene’s limit

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

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

See YouTube video
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

See YouTube video
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

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Resistance is Futile”, of poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, with this poem.

Europium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
as well as Poetry Life & Times Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 (through paper.li)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Europium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “insectal reflection”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading eleven Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago (filmed with the Canon video camera), including this poem

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 9 Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago (filmed with the Sony video camera), including this poem

Evaluation

even got to first base

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Even Got to First Base (in the chapbook “Bases Loaded”) 4/26/15 (C) at Chicago’s 2015 Poetry Bomb (at Wrigley Field) filmed with a Canon Power Shot

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Bases Loaded”
w/ poems read on 4/26/15 at the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago

even if the pope claims it (twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem even if the Pope claims it from v247 of cc&d magazine (titled “a ink in the Chain”) live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

Even Though I Didn’t See It
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).

See a Vine video
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 exas)

eventually (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku eventually in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See a Vine video

of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku eventually as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus (Canon, hard light, green filter)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku eventually as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus (C)

Ever Be

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Posterized)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Canon)

Ever Consumed Goat

Ever Expanding Spaces (twitter-length poem)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ever Expanding Spaces at the open mic 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (video filmed from the Canon camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ever Expanding Spaces at the open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from the Sony camera).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Ever Expanding Spaces live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Ever Expanding Spaceslive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

ever leave me

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem ever leave me live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs200, FlCrSat)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem ever leave me live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

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

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

Download poems in the free chapbook
Farewell Chicago

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

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot)

Ever Since You Got Me (from the “this poem is about...” series)

Watch the YouTube video

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)

See feature-length YouTube
video of many poems read 3/17/12
at Café Mestizo from the live feature
“Games We Play”, w/ this poem

Watch the YouTube video

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)

Or watch the above (blurred) video intro in facebook

See blurred YouTube video

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)

You can also watch the above (blurred) video intro on
facebook

everyone (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku everyone live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku everyone live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

Every Minute I Can Get

Watch this YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 03/23/10

Watch this YouTube video
(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/23/10

Watch this YouTube video
(recorded with a metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/23/10

Watch this YouTube video
(with the Pastel Sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/23/10

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

Everyone Else

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem

everyone else does it
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Order this iTunes track:

from Chaotic Elements
(a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes

CD:

Watch this YouTube video

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

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’ Rebirth
with all of the writing in the live show

Everyone Has a Choice

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 8/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Everyone Has a Choice read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Everyone Has a Choice read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 7/2/14 WHERE SHE READS THIS POEM at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Everything Else Falls Away

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

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

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

everything is my home

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Love in the Universe
5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin

Everything is New

Watch this YouTube video

Kuypers and C Ra McGuirt, Memphis, at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09

Everything Lives With Her (from 09/02/06)

Everything Was Alive and Dying
also see this poem at Spilled Ink
see this poem at the Open Scroll
See this poem in the Starite Cafe

Listen

in different versions:

on the 5 CD set the Chaotic Collection

Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux

or Listen to & download

this from the DMJ Art Connection

Listen

to the CD recording of this piece
from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears

Get this studio track from the CD release based on the first Janet Kuypers performance art show (at Red Lion 8/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

See this archive.org film

(8:28, 05/15/07)

Watch this YouTube video
(8:06, 05/15/07)

Watch the YouTube video

(6:32) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

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

frame from mpeg show of practice session at the Lake County Poets Society 08/22/06

Watch this YouTube video

(3:22) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06

see the entire performance

at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive

Listen to the full show

or the poem

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

Order this iTunes track:

from Chaots in Motion
(a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes

CD:

Watch this YouTube video

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

Or watch the FULL video
from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show

Listen

to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) to the studio track (1:32, 10/25/06) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.

Watch this YouTube video
(8:58) in Chicago w/ the HA!man of South Africa on cello, the Café 10/05/10

Watch this YouTube video
(8:00) live 10/08/10 at the Chicago Public Library (Avalon Branch), with cello from the HAman of South Africa

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

Watch this YouTube video
(6:47, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order
the entire CD set from iTunes:

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Everything was Alive and Dying live 8/28/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Everything Was Alive and Dying from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Everything Was Alive and Dying from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

Download poems in the free chapbook
Like a Lamb to the Slaughter

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

See YouTube video
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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying part of her poem Everything was Alive and Dying about bad dreams, then listing 2016 Republican candidates for President 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot, Edge Detection filter).

Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (filmed from a Canon fs200 video camera for simultaneous television broadcast on stage).

Download all of the show poems in the free PDF file download chapbook
Voting for Change
containing the poems poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit)

Evicted Today

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See the video from YouTube
read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

evil (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem evil from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem evil from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku evil from cc&d’s Scars Publications book a Perfect Solitude as a looping JKPoetryVine video after Poetry Plus in Georgetown 5/27/16.

See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku evil from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

Evil Floats

Watch this YouTube video

John Yotko reading live, the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

Watch this YouTube video

(studio session 03/16/09)

ex boyfriends became goldfish

See YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Cps) reading her 2 new poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

See YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Nikon) reading her 2 new poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

Excuses for Skipping Work

Excuses to Ignore me (twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

Exhaling

Watch this YouTube video

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

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Watch this YouTube video
(:15, of just the poem)
live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

exhaling toxic fumes

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers, welcomed on stage, where she performed from memory her poem exhaling toxic fumes as a story 1/10/16 with music at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps camera).

existence (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku existence in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku existence 4/24/16 at the end of her readings 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 haiku existence 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at the end of her readings at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “existence” from Down in the Dirt’s “the Breaking” for the 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Texas.

Expecting the Stoning
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Listen

to the CD recording
of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange

Watch the YouTube video

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

Order this iTunes track:

from the poetry audio CD

etc.
...Or order the entire CD set
from iTunes
CD:

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

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

Order this iTunes track
from the poetry audio CD
“Oh.” audio CD
...Or order
the entire CD set from iTunes:

explaining what condoms are for (twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading (C) her twitter-length poem explaining what condoms are for from the cc&d 21 year anniversary issue Invisible Ink live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading (S) her twitter-length poem explaining what condoms are for from the cc&d 21 year anniversary issue Invisible Ink live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

exposed ankles (twitter-length poem)

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explosions (haiku with bonus line, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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

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

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

extend (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku extend in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku extend in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku extend (while putting “anti-aging cream” on in the mirror) 8/18/15 in Austin, Texas (filmed on a Motorola phone camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku extend (while putting “anti-aging cream” on in the mirror) 8/18/15 in Austin, Texas (filmed on a Motorola, w/ a Threshold filter)

See YouTube video
of the ending of Joffre Stewart reading Janet Kuypers’ haiku extend live 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku extend, in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 Jul-Dec issues book the Intersection (filmed 12/1/15 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

extinct (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku extinct live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

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

See a Vine video

of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku extinct as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C, flipped and posterized)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku extinct as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C)

extinct, like the dodo

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem extinct, like the dodo live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem extinct, like the dodo live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

extinct on planet earth

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

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

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

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

eyes
You can also see this set to music from the DMJ Art Connection at artvilla

See YouTube video of the poem eyes, 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)

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Love”, w/ poems read 4/10/15
at Poetry’s “Love Letter” show in Let Them Eat Chocolate (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Michael Lee Johnson reading 2 Janet Kuypers poems, eyes and on Witnessing the Icy Graveyard

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes (w/ John playing background “music”) live 4/15/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes (w/ John playing background “music”) live 4/15/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (video recorded with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (video recorded with a Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot).

Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield 8/19/13 at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterized)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield 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.

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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