Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Cps) reading her poem QLG 647 (where she used be “QLG 6479” because Texas license plates are often 2 letters followed by 4 numbers) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

See YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Nikon) reading her poem QLG 647 (where she used be “QLG 6479” because Texas license plates are often 2 letters followed by 4 numbers) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

Quenching Anybody’s Thirst

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

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)

Questioning Atoms through Inference (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Questioning Atoms through Inference live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon camera, with balance, crop, and saturate filters)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Questioning Atoms through Inference live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon, balance)

Questioning Religion, Father and Son

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of Janet Kuypers reading the new poem Questioning Religion, Father and Son 1/20/14 at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Questioning Religion, Father and Son from the cc&d book a new era live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Questioning Religion, Father and Son from the cc&d book a new era live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

Questions and Tension

See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Quibbling over Religion

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Violence There & Quibbling over Religion, and Being God at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Sony camera).

Quieted Soul

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem (that she wrote there, just before the reading) Quieted Soul at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (Canon PS camera, w/ a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video 3/25/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem (that she wrote there, just before the reading) Quieted Soul at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Nikon CooPix S7000, Edge Detection filter).

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

Quiet for a While (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 (w/ music & video from the HA!man of South Afric / Francois Le Roux)

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poem “Quiet for a While” (w/ music & video from the HA!man of South Africa), and Bob Rashkow

Quite Happy Looking

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live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach poets
Watch the entire performance video, which contains this poem

(25:19) This film is from the Internet Archive

Quitting is Always an Option

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Listening In” 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon), with this poem said on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Listening In” 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony), with this poem said on the phone

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

Quoting twitter with a found haiku (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Quoting twitter with a found haiku 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 Quoting twitter with a found haiku 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 the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200), of 14 poems INCLUDING THIS POEM with background music

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem quoting twitter with a found haiku in Austin TX 11/9/15 (Samsung)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem quoting twitter with a found haiku in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v133 issue book Planets Apart (12/5/15 from a Motorola in Austin Texas).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem quoting twitter with a found haiku in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 issues book the Intersection (12/7/15, Samsung, in Austin Texas)

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