Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

labeled me again

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

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

or See the YouTube video
of the middle third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside that contains this writing

Watch the YouTube video
of JUST Labeled Me Again 07/03/11 in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature at “Beach Poets” in Chicago

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of JUST Labeled Me Again from the lip cam in the live feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

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

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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”

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

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

labor (haiku, on twitter)

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

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku labor as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C, close up, hard light, saturated)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku labor as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

Lambs To Heaven’s Gate
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

the poetry collection audio CD “Torture & Triumph”

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or live

tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?

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live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago

see the entire performance

of How Do I Get There? 02/15/05 in Chicago live, via the Internet Archive

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(1:27) read from the ISBN# book Living in Chaos, live 03/29/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 3/29/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago (where she is the host), with this poem reading

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

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Lambs To Heaven’s Gate, Why I Didn’t See God and thank you, women who work one, plus her bonus reading of the Ai poem The Good Shepherd at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Lanthanum (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 Lanthanum 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 Lanthanum in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (S)

last (haiku, on twitter)

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

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

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers’ haiku last @ a Starbucks 6/7/15 (of the last lines of her poem
the Burning) (filmed with a Motorola)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers’
haiku last read from Scars’ Down in the Dirt issues book the Intersection (Samsung 11/23/15)

Last Before Extinction
[in French] or [in German]
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux

Listen

to this from the CD release
from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

Watch this video:

(05/16/07, 2:20)

This film is from
the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video
(2:31, 05/16/07)

This video was also published in
World-Class-Poetry.com

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(05/16/07, 2:17)

This film is from
the Internet Archive

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(05/16/07, 2:16)

This film is from
the Internet Archive

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6:25, of these three poems (White Knuckled, Last Before Extinction and And I’m Wondering) at the Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic at Jesse Oaks in Lake County (north of Chicago) on 05/24/07

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(2:12) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

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(2:38) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

Listen: (2:42)

to this recording from Fusion

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

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

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from 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) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.

Watch this YouTube video

read live10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers reading poems (including this poem) live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

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

Watch this YouTube video
of Jeff Helgeson reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting 4 the Bus open mike 4/2/12

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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Last Before Extinction (from the book Living in a Big World) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Last Before Extinction (from the book Living in a Big World) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Last Wednesday

Late for a Class

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lava (lamp) at a rolling boil

Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux

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

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

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poem Lawrencium in Chicago 12/13/13 (w/ HA!Man of South Africa music, Canon) her feature and chapbook “an Artist’s Take on Science”

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poem Lawrencium in Chicago 12/13/13 (w/ HA!Man of South Africa music, Sony) her feature and chapbook “an Artist’s Take on Science”

See this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table poems show “an Artist’s Take on Science” live in Chicago’s Fine Arts building 12/13/13 (HA!Man of South Africa music, C) of “Ytterbium”, “Tantalum” & “Lawrencium”

See this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table poems show “an Artist’s Take on Science” live in Chicago’s Fine Arts building 12/13/13 (HA!Man of South Africa music, S) of “Ytterbium”, “Tantalum” & “Lawrencium”

Download this free chapbook
an Artist’s Take on Science,
w/ 3 Janet Kuypers Periodic Table of Poetry poems
(“Ytterbium”, “Tantalum”, and “Lawrencium”)

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

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w#&047; Threshold filter), including this poem

See YouTube video

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

See YouTube video

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodica table poem

Learn To Do That Too
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Watch this YouTube video

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

Learning More - a poem about Kuypers’ father
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(5:19 studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

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etc.
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from iTunes:
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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Learning More live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (from a Canon fs200 camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Learning More live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot)

Leather Jacket

Watch this YouTube video
Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09

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Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09

Watch the full show
of One Acts

(camera #1, 07/06/09)
from the Internet Archive

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of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive

Leaving

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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

Watch this YouTube video
of pt. 1 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café twith this piece 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 this poem read live at the 07/19/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago (for her book Close Cover Before Striking)

Watch this YouTube video

of the intro to the 07/19/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & 3 poems (including this one) from her book Close Cover Before Striking

Left with a Hole
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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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

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

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

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds 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.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot video camera).

Lessons from the Simpsons

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live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Lessons from the Simpsons live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Lessons from the Simpsons live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 9/11/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes her readng this poem

Let Me Be

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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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

from the poems about mom - let’s go
This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in the Starite Cafe

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(2:42) read live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago

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

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

letter, 4/14/95 one

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

You can also see this in Part One of the 09/09/08 show Seeing a Psychiatrist at Poetry Visualized

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 live at the Café

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/28/11 of her performing her poetry & live Janet Kuypers & John Yotko songs @ Chicago’s the Café

Watch this YouTube video
of the intro to the 06/28/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem

letter, 4/14/95 two

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, performed live at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11

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

letter, 4/14/95 three

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live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago

see the entire performance

live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago
with film from the Internet Archive

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 live at the Café

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/28/11 of her performing her poetry & live Janet Kuypers & John Yotko songs @ Chicago’s the Café

Watch this YouTube video
of the intro to the 06/28/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem

letter 4/19/95

(1:43, 07/03/11)
Or watch the YouTube video

(Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking) 07/05/11 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

Let the War Begin

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

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

The above studio video could also be seen at
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etc.
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Listen: (2:32)

to this recording from Fusion

Letting Ourselves Go

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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

Letting Time Tick By

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

Life 1987

edit this poem in wandering words...
rearrange the words... or make a new poem
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Life (a haiku) 2000

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

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life (a 2014 Periodic Table haiku, on twitter)

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

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

Life Can Slip Away

Listen

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

Watch this YouTube video
live at Café Ballou (Waiting 4 the Bus, w/ Buddha 309) in Chicago 05/03/10

Life got in the Way

See YouTube video 2/26/16 (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Life got in the Way & newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species, and her Periodic Table poem Tin at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s.

See YouTube video 2/26/16 (N) of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Life got in the Way & newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species, and her Periodic Table poem Tin at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s.

like cheesecake

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

Like Daggers

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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

Like I Was Never There

Watch this YouTube video
live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago

or watch this in part 3 of the YouTube show
live at New Year’s Unplugged

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llive at the Café in Chicago 08/10/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 08/10/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poems “Kurons” with guitar

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read 11/30/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video
of the intro and the poem Like I was Never There live 11/30/10 from the open mic at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Like I Was Never There 5/22/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Like I Was Never There 5/22/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Sony camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter).

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

Like My Motto
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One

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

Watch half of the show video

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

Listen

to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

like the dreams in your heart

Listen

to this with
the Second Axing

Like the Whiteness
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Listen To What You’re Not Hearing

Watch this YouTube video
(1:10) studio session “etc.” book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07

Listen

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

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from the poetry audio CD

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

Listening to the Cancer Ads

Listen

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

Watch this YouTube video
Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

Watch this YouTube video
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

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Listening to the Cancer Ads (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

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

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

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

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this Youtube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this Youtube video
of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 11/7/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem

Live in my Imagination

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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

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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

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

See YouTube video

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

See YouTube video

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodica table poem

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Promethium, Livermorium, & Lead, recorded from a Android camera) read live in Chicago 1/9/13 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Loggers

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

Watch the YouTube video
of this poem 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera

Watch the YouTube video
of this poem 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Sony camera

Look at the Downs

Watch the YouTube video
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

Looking For A Worthy Adversary
[in French] [in Italian] [in Spanish]
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Watch this YouTube video

read live on her wedding day (May 7, 2000)

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from the poetry audio CD
“Oh.” audio CD
...Or order
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etc.
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Listen

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

Listen

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

Listen

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

Watch this YouTube video

6:11 at the live Jesse Oaks live
“UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

Listen: (4:54)

to this recording from Fusion

Watch this 3:34 video from the show 6/11 06/11/02

from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video

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

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

See the YouTube ½ Show

of the 1st 10 minutes of the show the Cutting Room Floor, at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago (from Canon camera)

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

See Complete feature video

of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show with this poem at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary (from Canon)

See Complete feature video

of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show with this poem at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary (from Sony)

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

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

See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a capella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped/saturated w/ sci-fi filter).

See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a cappella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped & saturated).

See YouTube video (Nikon CoolPix S7000) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Looking For A Worthy Adversary 12/20/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video 12/20/15 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Being God, Looking For A Worthy Adversary, and True Happiness in the New Millennium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Watercolor, Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Threshold, Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Film Age - older, Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Posterize, Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading this poem

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation) at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems The Fourteenth & Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation), and then her 2 poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name as one, at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (Cps).

Looking Out For Number One

edit this poem in wandering words...
rearrange the words... or make a new poem
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Lord Have Mercy

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Lord Have Mercy 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)

from poems with David Jarvie — losing my best friend

Watch this YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

Watch this YouTube video
(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

Watch this YouTube video
(recorded with a metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

Watch this YouTube video
(with the Pastel Sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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

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

Loss

Watch the YouTube video
Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

or See the YouTube video
of the finale of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 05/21/10 with this writing

Watch this YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

Watch this YouTube video
of part three of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

Watch this YouTube video
of part 3 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

Watch the Full Video

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

Watch the Full Video

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

lost (haiku, on twitter)

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (on a Sony camera, negative filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (on a Sony camera, cropped and color balanced)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (on a Sony camera, x-ray filter)

Lost in the Breeze
also see this poem at Ygdrasil
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

Listen

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

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“Oh.” audio CD
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Tick Tock ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:

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etc.
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Lost my Breath (twitter-length poem)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/11/13 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading the 3 poems Astatine in a Fantastioc Car Crash, Argon and the twitter-length poem Lost my Breath, 1/11/13 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/11/13 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (from the Canon cameram with the Film Old Age {older} filter)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/11/13 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (from the Canon cameram with the Hue Cycling filter)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/11/13 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (from the Canon cameram with the Posterize filter)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/11/13 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (from the Canon cameram with the Watercolor filter)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Lost my Breath from cc&d mag, v244 live 8/14/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Lost my Breath from cc&d mag, v244 live 8/14/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 8/14/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this poem

love (haiku, on twitter)

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

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

Love Affair With The Moon

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Love Affair With The Moon 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Love Affair With The Moon 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (posterized)

Love Affair With The Moon 2012

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

Loved You the Most
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

Listen live

from the 03/03/02 CD
& the Chicago 09/10/02 performance
art show Stop. Look. Listen.

Watch the YouTube video
from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago

Or see the full “Stop” show

including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive

Watch the YouTube video

of a 10 minute portion of the 09/10/02 poetry show Stop, includeing this piece

Listen: (2:05)

to this recording from Fusion

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

Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church
(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago

(23:58) from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video

read live10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Love Has Tendrils
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

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

Listen live

from the 03/03/02 CD
& the Chicago 09/10/02 performance
art show Stop. Look. Listen.

Watch the YouTube video
from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago

Or see the full “Stop” show

including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive

Watch the YouTube video

of a 10 minute portion of the 09/10/02 poetry show Stop, includeing this piece

Listen: (:54)

to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video

Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09

Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago.

This video is w/ the Internet Archive

Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at
the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video

read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

love poem

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

Watch this YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 07/06/10

Loving Four

Watch this YouTube video
live at the Cafe in Chicago 01/19/10

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Lucille Ann (haiku, on twitter)

See YouTube video of the haiku poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Lucille Ann to make a Vine video in the middle of her poem reading for old school and high-tech monuments (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video (w/ John playing guitar) during her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed on a Samsung smart phone)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video (w/ John playing guitar) as practice hours before her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed on a Samsung smart phone)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See a Vine video

of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See a Vine video

of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Lucille Ann 11/24/15, in
Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 issues book the Intersection (Samsung)

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

Download this free chapbook
On the Edge of the Table,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
toward the end of the Periodic Table.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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