Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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

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live 10/21/03 in her show the Other Side at theCafé in Chicago

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of The Other Side live, including this poem in Chicago 10/21/03 (37:01)

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from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently for $6.22

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at the open mic Sing Your Life

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(:59) read from the book Living in a Big World, live 12/14/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro and the poems “Packing”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Tribal Scream” read live 12/14/10 from the open mic at the Café in Chicago

Pain Is Weakness/Pain Is A Crutch

Painted Buddhas

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Live at Twtter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

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

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Painted Buddhas in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

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Palladium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

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pant (haiku, on twitter)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku pant 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)

Panther

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

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Experimental Poetry: Paper

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Paranoia

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(1:54) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World

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dipity’s “the Painted Tower”

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Astronaut Fancy Dress

Discover the world. Share your experience.

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

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

Part of my Pain (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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Passed Away

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llive at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

PDQ in Tin Foil

PDQ in Tin Foil 2015

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Poetic Shades of Chocolate

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People’s Lives Were at Stake
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

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(mixed 07/03/09) to this poetry, combined with Los - Break Free from the HA!Man of South Africa off the CD “Seeing a Psychiatrist”

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People’s Rights Misunderstood

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(1:21) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04

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

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

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

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem People’s Rights Misunderstood from the collection book Oeuvre live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem People’s Rights Misunderstood from the collection book Oeuvre live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S, with the Film Age - Older filter)

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from the poems about mom - perfect

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Perversion

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

pet (haiku, on twitter)

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“6 Second Poems”,
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Philosopher at the Blue Note
This poem was Published in png poetry on line
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(1:54) live 08/05/07 at Beach Poets

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Phosphorus (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Photograph, Nineteenth Century
2012 translation of Photograph, Nineteenth Century - in Slovak: fotografia, devätnáste storočie”
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
electronic translations [in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

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Photo Studio Packages

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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.

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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.

Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas 09/11/06

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas from her 2014 poetry book Revealed at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus poetry open mic 8/18/14 (S)

from the poems about mom - picking my friends
This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in the Starite Cafe

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Pinchy

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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.

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

Pioneer
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Pioneer live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

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of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Pioneer live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

Planting Palm Tree Seeds

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.

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Farewell Chicago

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

Platinum (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of this Kuypers reading the poem live 1/26/13 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon),
with music from the HA!Man of South Africa
(2011 Hotel music “the Ice is Melting”)

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1/26/13 of Kuypers reading 8 Periodic Table poems (including this poem) on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon), with the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting playing

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1/26/13 of Kuypers reading 8 Periodic Table poems (including this poem) on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Samsung), with the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting playing

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of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

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of Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems, including this one, live in her Chicago 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa’ “Wayward Waltz of the Fractured Wind”

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the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

Pleading (haiku, on twitter)

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

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

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

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

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

from the plush horse stories - please drive through

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

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

Pleasure and Pain
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Pleiades

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of Janet Kuypers reading the new poem Pleiades 1/20/14 at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Posterized video)

Pluto, Plutonium & Death (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)

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.

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Love in the Universe
5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin

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

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of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

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of Kuypers reading 5 poems (inlcuding this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading 5 poems (inlcuding this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF flie chapbook
the Elements of Astronomy.

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

poam - a conversation with jimbo breen <

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(1:11) live 04/12/11 at the Café in Chicago

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

Poam - a Militant Man with Schizophrenia

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

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

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

pock-marked molehills

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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).

pocket knife

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live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach poets
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(25:19) This film is from the Internet Archive

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

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

from the poems about mom - Poker Face

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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 main camera

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

Polonium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (Sony, Watercolor filter) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Polonium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (Sony, Posterize filter) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers’ interview and her reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 8/28/13 feature Interview to Poetry at Poetry Saloon at Noon (in the Lerner Auditorium at the Sulzer Public Library), containing this poem

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“Interview to Poetry”,
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of poems performed during this hour-long event.

Pool Together Our Money

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poor (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor 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 poor 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 YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs200, FlCrSat)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poor from her book Bon Voyage! live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

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7/25/15 of Janet Kuypers interviewed and reading poetry on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed from a Canon fs200 video camera), WHICH CONTAINS HER READING THIS POEM

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku poor, from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 Jul.-Dec. issues book the Intersection (filmed 11/30/15 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

Pork Skins (twitter-length poem)

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Pop a Pill

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of John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem (from the book Contents Under Pressure) live 09/13/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago

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as Bob Rashkow reads 2 of Janet Kuypers’ poems, “Ways to Spend Your Money” and “Pop a Pill” in Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret 9/2/15 in Chicago

Potassium (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

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
“Lights on our Insides” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her Periodic Table bonus poem Potassium Chloride live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her Periodic Table bonus poem Potassium Chloride live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, Edge Det. filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems Arsenic and Syphilis & Juxtaposition, or Irony? from memory; then she read her 2 Periodic Table poems Potassium Chloride and Thallium at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 2/26/16 (w/ a Cps).

Poverty in America (twitter-length poem)

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

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Poverty in America live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Poverty in America live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Praseodymium live in Chicago 10/20/13 at her Pilsen Periodically mini-feature (with a watercolor filter)

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of Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Pilsen, Periodically

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“the Pilsen, Periodically”,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems in this show.

Praying to Idols
See this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
And is listed in ChicagoPoetry.com’s 2005 Chicago Poety Fest >

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live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest

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12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video
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Precinct Fourteen
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(1:48) live 08/05/07 at Beach Poets

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/24/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/24/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/24/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

predator (haiku, on twitter)

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See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem predator (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 predator (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)

prefer things soft

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

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Prepared for the Worst

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Present and Past

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(1:09) studio session “etc.” book reading
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Pressure On Me Again

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

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(:53, 06/15/07)

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06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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(13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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Princess Diana, One Year Later

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Princess Diana, One Year Later 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 Princess Diana, One Year Later 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Private Lives One

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Private Lives Two

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read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

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read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

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06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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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

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Private Lives Four

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Private Lives 2005

poetic pieces: poetry & editorials CD by Janet Kuypers

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(1:54) 07/17/07 from
Living in a Big World

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(1:53) 07/17/07 from
Living in a Big World

Probably Not

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem probably not 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem probably not 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera with an Edge Detection filter).

progress (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem progress 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 progress 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 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).

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Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

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

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

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

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

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of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the 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

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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

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

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

Watch YouTube video of poems (INCLUDING PROTACTINIUM) read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry feature (w/ Bob Rashkow poems) in this Poetry is Money, in Chicago’ “Waiting 4 the Bus” 7/7/14 (C)

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

Protect Ourselves from Ourselves

psychic

Pushed Aside

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read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems

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of the her mini-feature INCLUDING THIS POEM (with background base by John Yotko) live 10/11/11 at the Café

Push Your Button (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony cam)

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put it to rest

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(:43) 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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of the intro and readings (including this piece), live 01/18/11 at the Chicago open mic at the Café

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of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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