Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

Sadness

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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

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of this poem, read from the folder camera, 1st in her book Close Cover Before Striking, live at Triple Threat at Trunk Fest, in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11

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Salamander

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to the CD recording
of this piece, on the Entropy Project

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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.

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (S) reading this Periodic Table poem Samarium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “jumping all up and down”), live in Chicago 10/4/13

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

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Opening Act chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Saving Myself
Saving Myself - in Catalan

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

Saving Yourself
Saving Yourself - in Arabic

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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.

Say It In The First Place
Say It In The First Place - in Swedish

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

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of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak)

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of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung)

See the Samsung video upside-down,
all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb

Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook
the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Scandium live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Scandium live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (film age older filter)

Scars 1997
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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to this recording from Fusion

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live, 18 Years of Beach Poets
08/31/08, Chicago

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

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem Scars 1997 live 5/22/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem Scars 1997 live 5/22/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/22/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

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of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

Scars 2000
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

watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

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Live at the Cafe,
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/5/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this writing

Scenarios 2000

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to this recording from Fusion

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/08/09

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Knotted Hate, Floating Away with the Tide and Scenarios 2000 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cfs)

scorches ((haiku, on twitter)

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

Read the Janet Kuypers twitter-length poem scorches in the Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku scorches from Scars Publications’ Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/27/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Droid Maxx)

Scratch the Surface

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

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

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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2:35, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

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(2:48) from the 2011 6" x 9" ISBN# book Sexism and Other Stories, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

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

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).

Experimental Poetry: screaming

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Seaborgium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Seaborgium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Seaborgium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (C)

Seasons 1998

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Read by John Yotko live
at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02

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

See you Crawl
See you Crawl - in Japanese

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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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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

Selenium (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)

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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
“Life, Death & the Universe” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Self-Confidence

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poetic pieces: poetry & editorials CD by Janet Kuypers

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(:43, 06/15/07)

Self-Destructive
Self-Destructive - in Indonesian

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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

Senses (1986)
Senses (1994)
Senses (1998)

September 11, 2001
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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to the DMJ Art Connection

Listen: (5:20)

to this recording from Fusion

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of Kuypers reading this poem from her book Stabity Stabity Stab Stab Stab at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (accompanied by live piano music from Gary)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the entire open mike, w/ this poem (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, & piano from Gary)

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“September 11, 2001” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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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”

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poems bored the night before 9/11, and September 11, 2001 at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 9/11/15 Cfs200).

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems bored the night before 9/11 and September 11, 2001 at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 9/11/15 Cps).

from poems on religion - Service of Others

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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)

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

This film is from the Internet Archive

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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

Seven and Seven, plus eighteen

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8:57, as a Christmas gift 12/18/07 at a Christmas tree for her husband

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7:52, read live at the Galapagos Islands
12/25/07 on a boat for her husband

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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

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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

Seven Ten, Seven Twenty

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to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Singular

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Seven Ten, Seven Twenty (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)

Shame on Me

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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

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

See YouTube video
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!

Shared Air

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

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Shared Air(Cfs) 9/30/15 at Chicago’s Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Shared Air (Cps) 9/30/15 at Chicago’s Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret

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).

She’s Going Home

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem
She’s Going Home 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem
She’s Going Home 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.

She’s Made Her Choice

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/24/09

She Told Me Her Dreams one

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(2:18) 03/16/08 live, WordSlingers radio feature, WLUW Chicago 88.9FM

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of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08

She Told Me Her Dreams two

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

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This video is w/ the Internet Archive

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the Internet Archive

She Told Me Her Dreams three

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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

She Told Me Her Dreams four
She Told Me Her Dreams five

She Told Me Her Dreams six

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

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She Was a Woman

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

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

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to the DMJ Art Connection

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(4:03) recorded of dancing Boobies
(birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez,
Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos Islands)

sheri

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order
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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem Sheri at the open mike 8/4/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem Sheri at the open mike 8/4/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

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(C) of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems (“Sheri”, “Where To Go” & “John (edited)”) 8/4/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

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(S) of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems (“Sheri”, “Where To Go” & “John (edited)”) 48/4/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

Shiny New Again

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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)

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

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shoe prints on the toilet seat (twitter-length poem)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem shoe prints on the toilet seat live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem shoe prints on the toilet seat live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Posterized)

from poems with David Jarvie — Shopping

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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

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

Short-Term Advice
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Signs of the Times

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

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off the CD Indian Flux

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not on CD:

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Live at the Cafe,
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1:19, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

You can also see the above YouTube video
at AOL Video

Experimental Poetry: silence

Silicon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

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of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

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

Silver (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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of Kuypers reading the 2nd half of this poem live 1/26/13 on WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Samsung), 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”

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

Simple Things

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Skittery (“two tweet” twitter-length poem)

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written & read 06/07/11, live at the Café

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video (21:47) of Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café

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of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

Slate and Marrow

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13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order
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to this collaboration
of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j

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(2:57) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

Listen

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

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of her reading this poem 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling

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of her poem readings 10/01/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling

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of Jeff Helgeson reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 4/2/12

Slow Painful Death

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(1:25) read 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

smart thing to do

Smelling Sulphur on Nine One One (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Smelling Sulfur on 9/11 live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Smelling Sulfur on 9/11 live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

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snow

“So”

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(2:46) live 09/18/10 at Vittorio Carli’s Pilsen open mic at Cafe Mestizo

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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2:22, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

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(2:18) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

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So Don’t Worry

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So I’m Left Confused

So Many Lies
So Many Lies - in Sanskrit

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So To Speak

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Soaring So High

Sobering

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Sodium (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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Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere

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Some People Want to Believe

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 02/24/09

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Some People Want to Believe 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon fs)

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Some People Want to Believe 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon PS)

Somewhere Else

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Someone Give Me the Answers

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recovery poems “Changing Garments”, “Supposed To Be Done”, “Making Sense Out Of The Insane”, “Someone Give Me the Answers”, & “Feel So Much” read live at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02

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

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

Listen: (4:39)

to this recording from Fusion

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Someone Like Me
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

sometimes

Sometimes It’s Not

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Sometimes the Light

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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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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

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Soothe Me Just This Once

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

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This film is from the Internet Archive

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This film is from the Internet Archive

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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

Sorry Flowers

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Listen live

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

Listen: (:57)

to this recording from Fusion

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

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(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

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(23:58) from the Internet Archive

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

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Never Did the Same, Before I Learned Better, Can’t Answer That One and Sorry Flowers) live in Chicago at Poetry “Love Letters” open mike 6/9/12 (Samsung)

sort ((haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku sortlive 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic a3/12/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — including reading this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem sort 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 sort 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 her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d magazine, titled Beyond the Gates live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d mag, titled Beyond the Gates live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon Power Shot)

space journey

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

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of Kuypers’ “Airport Phonecall” reading (which includes this poem) 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers’ “Airport Phonecall” reading (which includes this poem) 9/24/24 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)

from the plush horse stories - sparkle
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

Spent

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

Spit Me Out

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Live at Tiwtter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

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of the middle third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside that contains this writing

spring

written with Chad Maier - springtime

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

watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

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

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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

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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

St. Anthony’s Medallion

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read by John Yotko live at the Cafe 11/10/09

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

stagger ((haiku, on twitter)

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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)

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 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku stagger from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking live in New Orleans 5/29/16.

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku stagger from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

written with John Yotko - stairs

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

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(4:22) studio session “etc.” book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07

Start All Over
also see this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe at two different locations

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

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Listen

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from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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“Imzadi”,
w/ poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago

Statue
[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 at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08

The above studio video could also be seen at
aol video.

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in front of the Parthenon, Nashville 12/22/08

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

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

Step

Still No Answers

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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

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Stilts

sting ((haiku, on twitter)

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Download this poem in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
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See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku sting from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

stop drop and roll

Story Telling

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part 1:

- part 2:

- part 3:

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Singular

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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem Story Telling at Chicago’s 7/26/14 Sisters on a Journey

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Story Telling live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Story Telling live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (Canon Power Shot camera)

Story Telling (part one)

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

Story Telling (the end)

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

strike ((haiku, on twitter)

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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”,
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See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku strike, in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 Jul-Dec issue book the Intersection (filmed 12/4/15 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku strike, read from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v133 issue book Planets Apart. (filmed 12/4/15 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

Strontium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table of Poetry poem Strontium in her Mysticism vs. Science feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “Where My Home Is”), live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading 6 never-before read Periodic Table of Poetry poems in her show Mysticism vs. Science with Buddha309 live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery (Canon), which is also in a Mysticism vs. Science chapbook

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of Janet Kuypers reading 6 never-before read Periodic Table of Poetry poems in her show Mysticism vs. Science with Buddha309 live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery (Sony), which is also in a Mysticism vs. Science chapbook

study ((haiku, on twitter)

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See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku titled study from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./Feb. 2016 issue book the Breaking (filmed 2/24/16 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

Suicide (heat) Poem

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Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09

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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”,
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Suing NASA For Comet Play

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

Sulfur (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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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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the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

Summer

Sunrise

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06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)

See feature-length YouTube

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of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

superficial

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Superficial 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 Superficial 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera, Posterized and hue cycled).

Supposed To Be
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Supposed To Be Done

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Supposed to Make Sense

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read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released

Supposed To Make Us Laugh

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surprise

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of Kuypers reading her poem surprise at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 6/2/14 in Chicago (Posterized)

Surviving the Apocalypse (twitter-length poem)

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary)

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Suspend My Beliefs
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j

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Swallowing Sand & Pebbles

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Sweetened Sweet Potatoes (Dreams 07/27/06)