Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

Gadolinium (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 Gadolinium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “stroking flute”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gadolinium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gadolinium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Gallium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “azzuu”), 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

Download this poem in the free PDF file
Opening Act chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gallium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gallium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

games
see this poem at morpo magazine

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05/24/11 at the Café in Chicago (read from the ISBN# book the Window)

See YouTube video of the intro to the 05/24/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2

See YouTube video (9:35) of Kuypers 05/24/11 at the Café reading her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2

Games We Play
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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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

Watch the YouTube video
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 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

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

Garret’s Lament

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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)

See YouTube video
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)

Gary’s Blind Date

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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1)

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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2)

See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1)

This film is from the Internet Archive

Listen

Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set, or Click on the CD cover to order tracks from the entire 3 CD set of Live at the Café

Listen

or order by clicking on the CD cover from this EP from Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers, in pb&j

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06/21/10, Café Ballou (at Waiting4the Bus), Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gary’s Blind Date live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gary’s Blind Date live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Gas Stations and Gun Dealers

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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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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)

Gasoline

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

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

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1)

This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2)

This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video
of the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John yotko music (on the Canon Camera)

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

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

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gasoline live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gasoline live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

G Block (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 G Block in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/8/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)

Download this poem & more in the free PDF
Crossing Borders for International
(and Interplanetary) Peace chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Gears get Caught in the Mud
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09

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from the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03

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Genealogically

Genuinely Tired Of Looking

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

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Gerbil
also see this poem at Ygdrasil

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(1:16) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD

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Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09

Germanium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

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

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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.

Get His Product to Town

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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.

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.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Get His Product to Town live in her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 (Cfs200, video flipped and saturated)

Get It Over With

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to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

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(called Life Passes You By) off the CD Indian Flux

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this track from the DMJ Art Connection

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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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from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

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from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

Get Me Out of this Cage

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to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux

this same track also is on Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set

poetic pieces: poetry & editorials CD by Janet Kuypers

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(4:03) from the Chicago performance
art show {Stripped} live 6/7/05

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of {Stripped} live 6/7/05 in Chicago, via the Internet Archive

Listen: (4:10)

to this recording from Fusion

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to this collaboration
of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j

Get Me Through My Life
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

Get The Idea

Getaway

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read live 1/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That.

Getting Quite Good At it

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

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(1:28) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

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of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

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of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera)

Getting Used To Something New

Gift of Motherhood one

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(1:50) 03/16/08 live, WordSlingers feature, WLUW Chicago radio 88.9FM

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

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of the open mic intro at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10 & the poems More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, and Hiding Vices

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of all of the religion-inspired poems read live at the Café on 03/30/10: More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, Hiding Vices, Gift of Motherhood 1, and Gift of Motherhood 2 (with the “line drawing” filter)

Gift of Motherhood two

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(1:51) studio session 11/13/07

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

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

Gin

Given A Warning Early On

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Gives Up the Fight

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live w/ music 09/07/10 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing at Phyllis’ Musical Inn in Chicago, w/ John Yotko

Glomming off the Wrestling World

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

Goblins on Top of the Bus

God Eyes
see this poem at ChicagoPoetry.com

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with the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

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

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Live at the Cafe,
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Watch this YouTube video

(6:16) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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(3:53) 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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) w/ background musc from the the HA!Man of South Africa

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) w/ background musc from the the HA!Man of South Africa

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

God Will Save Me

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to the CD recording from the 09/20/05 performance art show
SIN (Scars Internet News)

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from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive

Going Nowhere

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/28/09

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of the full (give me 5 minutes) show, live in Chicago 02/28/09

Going To A Rock Concert

Gold (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)

Watch YouTube video
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)

Watch YouTube video
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.

golfing with George Eastman

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

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

gone (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 gone live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

See Vine video
9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers’ haiku gone live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon)

Gonna Break

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

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

good bye

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Good Escape (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago from the house camera

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of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the house camera), including this poem

Good Things Have Happened to Me Too

Gossip 1

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

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Gossip 2

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

edit this poem in wandering words...
rearrange the words... or make a new poem
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Gossip 3

Goth Girl Photographer (twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Goth Girl Photographer (C, from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Goth Girl Photographer (S, read from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

Got on the Road Again

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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 Twitter Inside 05/21/10 with this writing

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 6/4/12

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Got on the Road Again” in Nashville TNin the Tag Team feature reading

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

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook
the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

Gotten To That Part

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

Gouge Out Their Eyes (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the house camera

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (C fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon PS)

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

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

Grab The Other’s Neck
also see this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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now available in a 3 CD set, as a bonus
track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2005

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(3:26) at the live Jesse Oaks live
“UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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(3:09) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD

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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
(This film’s at the Internet Archive)

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Grains of Sand

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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

grandmother charged with murder

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

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

grandmother charged with murder 2015

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

greatest (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku greatest live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku greatest live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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

Grinning from Ear to Ear

groove (haiku, on twitter)

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

group themselves together

Guantanamo Bay (twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

guide (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of poet R. Gibbons reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku guide live 6/2/14 in Chicago

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

See YouTube video (S) of R. Gibbons on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku guide in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s 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 Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem guide (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 guide (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 reading her haiku guide from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

Guilt (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

See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 06/25/11, with this writing

Download the chapbook with this writing in Striking with Nature and Humanity

Watch the YouTube video

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

guzzling drug cocktails with champagne

Watch the YouTube video
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

Watch the YouTube video
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

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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