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take it all away

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

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

Watch this YouTube video live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/11/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa)

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 12/11/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her new poem & poems from her book Contents Under Pressure (music from the HA!man of South Africa)

Taking Out The Brain

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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Order the STUDIO track on CD 13 from the CD set Live (an extensive 13 CD 2010 CD set)   with music from [elektroNarkoz] 3:42, November 2005

Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life

Listen: (1:16) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

Watch this YouTube video Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

Watch this full video from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive

Watch the YouTube video 05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)

Tall Man
[in Finnish] [in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

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

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

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

Listen to studio or live tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?

Watch this YouTube video (:52, 06/12/07, live at the Cafe)

Watch this YouTube video 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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poem Tantalum 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 Tantalum 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”)

tapes the key hole
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Teaching Our Children

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

Watch this YouTube video (:23) 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 It’s also on Yasak Tube

Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 12/07/10 with this poem and other poems read live

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Technetium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

Telling What you Want
And Hearing What You Want
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Tellurium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table of Poetry poem Tellurium 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 (S)

Watch YouTube video 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

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Tellurium 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with Einsteinium (#99, Ununseptium (#99), and Tellurium (#52).

Ten and Ten, Plus Two

Watch the YouTube video live 07/11/10 at Beach Poets in the show Death ‘'n’ Rebirth

Watch the full video of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show with this poem, at Beach Poets, from archive.org

Watch this YouTube video (1:29, of just the poem) 11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Ten Minutes
written in 2000, but was not published in English until recently.
These translations existed in 2003.
[ in Dutch ] [ in French ] [ Tin German ] [ in Italian ]
[ in Norwegian ] [ in Portuguese ] [ in Spanish ]

Listen to this w/ The DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion

Watch this YouTube video Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/28/09

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

Watch this YouTube video (1:30) read from the ISBN# book Living in Chaos, live 03/29/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 03/29/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago (where she is the host), with this poem reading

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading poetry (including this poem) at the open mic 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

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

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table of Poetry poem Terbium 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)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table of Poetry poem Terbium 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 (S)

Watch YouTube video 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

Watch YouTube video 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

Terrorism Intelligence

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Watch this YouTube video from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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

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

Get this on Poetic Pieces - a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!).

Watch the YouTube video (1:44) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/16/08

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

Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Terrorism Intelligence” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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

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

Tight Rope Affair
(a song, by the Second Axing)

Watch this video: from the Internet Archive

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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

Listen to this with the Second Axing

Watch the YouTube video (3:53, 06/22/04) from the show A Night of Firsts

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

th
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Thallium/U> 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 Thallium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Edge Detection)

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).

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 Nikon).

from poems on religion - thank you, women who work one
2012 translation of thank you, women who work I - in Slovak: Ďakujem vám, ženy, ktoré pracujete
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

Watch the YouTube video (1:21) 03/16/08 Live, WordSlingers feature, WLUW Chicago radio 88.9FM

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

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

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

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

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

Watch the YouTube video of all of the religion-inspired poems read live at the Café on 03/30/10: More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, Hiding Vices, Gift of Motherhood 1, and Gift of Motherhood 2

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Thank You, Women Who Work 1 live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Nikon Cool Pix S7000).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Thank You, Women Who Work 1 live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Canon Power Shot).

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).

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 in Texas (from a Sony camera).

from poems on religion -
thank you, women who work two

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

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

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

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

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

Watch the YouTube video of all of the religion-inspired poems read live at the Café on 03/30/10: More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, Hiding Vices, Gift of Motherhood 1, and Gift of Motherhood 2

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Thank You, Women Who Work 2 live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Nikon Cool Pix S7000).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Thank You, Women Who Work 2 live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Canon Power Shot).

That’s Not What I’m Here For

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

Watch this YouTube video 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

That Adorable Together
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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

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

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

That I Get

That Is You

Watch this YouTube video of this poem read in the 1st performer at the last show at Café Nestizo 4/21/12

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers’ full reading (including this poem) as the 1st performer at the last show at Café Nestizo 4/21/12

“that’s from the barbed wire”

Watch this YouTube video Live at Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago 05/18/09

Watch this YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mic in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mic in Chicago

that we wish

The Answers

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

The Bad Stuuf That Could Be

the Bathroom at the Green Mill

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection

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 09/13/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the introduction to the 09/13/11 weekly poetry open mic she hosts live at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poetry (including this poem) from her ISBN# poetry book Contents Under Pressure

The Battle At Hand

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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CDetc. ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

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

Watch the YouTube video Urbanation (2:48, 02/22/04)

Watch this YouTube video (3:33) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Battle At Hand, after she introduces the first day of the open mic she hosts in Chicago for over 5 years, live at the Cafe in Chicago 1/12/10.

Listen: (2:30) to this recording from Fusion

(2:41) from the 6/11 show 06/11/02 from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02

The Beach at Night

Watch the YouTube video (:53) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

Watch this YouTube video (:41) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

The Best Times In My Life

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Posterized)

from the new orleans poems -
The Bridge To New Orleans
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
on a page of 3 poems about New Orleans

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

Watch the YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/22/08

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

Watch the YouTube video (:54) Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

See the entire performance of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video (1:06) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

the Burning
2012 translation of the Burning - in Slovak: “Horenie”
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

See a flash film of this poem designed by Bill Dorris

see this poem at ChicagoPoetry.com see this poem at Spilled Ink (copyright 10/95) see this poem at GypsyMag.com #4 see the burning as an animated image

see additional translations of the Burning
[in Finnish] [in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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(6:46) the Poems The Burning and Death Takes Many Forms from the show 6/11 06/11/02 This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this video This film is from the Internet Archive

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD Live in Alaska ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

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

Watch this YouTube video (1:37) 10/03/06, of the TV show, airing 4 times, 12/06 ...or watch this above YouTube video at leech video.

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

Watch this YouTube video 1:42, live at the Cafe 03/13/07 recorded for Constantpoetry.com

This is on the collection CD The Final. Get a copy for only $6.22.

Watch this YouTube video 2:42, of the 2 poems Holding My Hand and the Burning (live at the Cafe)

Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set bonus track from Molly Malone’s

Watch the video 3 poems read live 05/19/07 at the Jared Smith book release: Too Far, Headache & the Burning (3:46, from the Internet Archive)

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux

Watch this YouTube video (1:44, 05/05/07) You can also see the above video on msn.com

Listen to the Second Axing off the CD Live in Alaska.

Watch this YouTube video (1:00) Also see the above video on leech video

Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2004

Go to the Raw readings page and search for multiple videos of this poem.

Listen: (1:26) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video live, 18 Years of Beach Poets 08/31/08, Chicago

Watch the YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/22/08

Watch this YouTube video Live at Waiting 4 the Bus 06/17/09 at the “Bizarro Feature” for Charlie Newman in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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

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

Watch this YouTube video 1:17, 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

See YouTube video Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

See the YouTube full video of My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2) at Trunk Fest, live 05/28/11, w/ this writing

Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)

See YouTube video 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)

See YouTube video 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 (Sony)

See YouTube video 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)

See YouTube video 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)

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

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track from the collection poetry music CD the Final ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD Live in Alaska ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading a set of poems (“the Burning” and 3 near-death accident-related poems) live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Burning 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 the Burning 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!

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Burning (from the book po•em) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Burning (from the book po•em) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Burning 12/13/15 at the Austin TX open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing poetry and song (with John on guitar) 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with her song What We Need In Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside the song), X-rays and broken hearts, & the Burning.

The Carpet Factory, The Shoes
The Carpet Factory, The Shoes - in Finnish

Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

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

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Watch this YouTube video (1:54) from Living in a Big World You can also see the above video on Bollywood

Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World You can also see the above video on Yahoo

Watch the YouTube video (3:29) 10/15/07 practice for the A Foot Fantasia show, Chicago

Watch the YouTube video (3:08) 10/15/07 practice for the A Foot Fantasia show, Chicago You can also see the above video on Hot Flicks

Watch the YouTube video 4:22, during the performance art show A Foot Fantasia on the 1st day, 10/16/07, with additional instrumentals, at the Peter Jones art gallery in Chicago You can also see the above video on Lyrics Mode or Sexy Sexy Boys videos

Watch the YouTube video 3:31, during the performance art show A Foot Fantasia 10/17/07, the Peter Jones art gallery, Chicago

Listen to this with the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion

Watch the YouTube video 05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her ISBN# book Close Cover Before Striking)

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Carpet Factory, the Shoes from the book Drowning live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Carpet Factory, the Shoes from the book Drowning live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

the Cycle

Watch the YouTube video (2:26) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/16/08

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Cycle) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Cycle) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Cycle from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Cycle from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Cycle, Wedding Lost and the Page (to inspiration) from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at Austin’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Cycle, Wedding Lost and the Page (to inspiration) from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at Austin’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Nikon)

the Cycle of Life

Watch this YouTube video Live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video or all of the poems read live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video (a poem mentioning fire, read in front of a fire 07/12/09)

Watch this YouTube video (studio session 03/16/09)

The Death of my Ivy (from 09/07/06)

The Deep End
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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

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

Listen: (:50) 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 live 09/06/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago

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

The Dream

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Listen to a live track off the CD and performance art show Dreams (02/03/04)

Watch this YouTube video (3:46) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04

Watch this YouTube video (3:40) the television screen broadcast from the Chicago Dreams show 02/03/04

the Emotion in DNA
the First Death of the New Millennium

the Flashback

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

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

Listen: (5:46) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of a compilation of Janet Kuypers’ poems Holding My Skin Together, Any Help At All, conversations three (a day of grieving), transcribing dreams one, the flashback, By Who I Don’t Know, and Did you know I was watching? in the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Flashback live 5/27/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Flashback live 5/27/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

The Fourteenth

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Watch this YouTube video 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

Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion

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

Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

Watch this YouTube video 12/4/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Samsung

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ intro to the open mic 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mic poets, and her poetry (from the Kodak)

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Fourteenth at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

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).

The Good “Doctor”

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

Watch this YouTube video (4:56) from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05 You can also see the above video at Video Google.

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

The Good Ones

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Singular

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Sony

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Canon

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ live piano from Gary), which includes this poem

the greatest spectacle in racing

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/01/10

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

The Hammer Falls

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

See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/04/11

the Hand

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

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

Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

The Hands of a Handyman

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

Watch this YouTube video from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05 The above video can also be seen on World News Network

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

The Hunter and The Fox
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Watch this YouTube video (:48) at a pool 06/16/07 in Denver, Colorado

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from Francois Le Roux, mixed with Esteban Colon Vocals)

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, and live piano from Gary)

Dreams 12/22/08:
the Indescribable Infant
is it a fish? is it an animal? is it human?

The Joshua Tree

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Watch the YouTube video Take 1, live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

Watch the YouTube video Take 2, live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

the Kitchen

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Watch this YouTube video (:59) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD

Watch the YouTube video (1:36) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

Or watch the complete video of the entire fortune featurette (13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

the Kuipers Name 09/02/06

the Last Time

See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/04/11

The Last Time He Sees Her Alive

The Little Differences

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

Watch this video: from the Internet Archive

Watch the YouTube video (2:40, 06/22/04) from the show A Night of Firsts

the Martyr and the Saint
the Martyr and the Saint - in Finnish

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

Watch this YouTube video (:57) studio session 11/13/07 You can also see the above video on msn.com or everyzing

Watch the YouTube video (1:39) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection

Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

Listen: (:49) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

Watch this YouTube video 12/4/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa)

Watch this YouTube video of ther reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music by the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung Camera

The Measuring Scale

Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life, which is also on the CD Sing Your Life through iTunes.

Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/17/09

Watch this YouTube video live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08

Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 08/15/10 in Chicago (with John Yotko on guitar)

Watch this YouTube video 1:59, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

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

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

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 YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Cps) reading her 2 poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

See YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Nikon) reading her 2 poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

The Men At The Construction Site

Listen (or listen live) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control Another version was also released off the CD Indian Flux, which is also on the CD Indian Flux, at iTunes.

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Watch this YouTube video (1:31) at a pool 06/16/07 in Denver, Colorado

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Men At The Construction Site (1:43) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control.

Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 08/15/10 in Chicago (with John Yotko on guitar)

Watch this YouTube video 1:06, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

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

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

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 YouTube video 05/03/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books Unknown and Sexism and Other Stories and in cc&d mag v220, the 05/11 issue)

Watch this YouTube video to the intro to the 05/03/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with this poem

The Messenger

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

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

the Messenger 2015 edit

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of the Messenger (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem The Messenger, 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 poem reading by Janet Kuypers of the Messenger (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem The Messenger, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

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, WITH THIS PIECE

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, INCLUDING THIS PIECE

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

The Mind of John

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Watch this YouTube video (:16, 06/15/07)

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Watch this YouTube video lread live 02/08/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book Dark Matter: the Mind of Janet Kuypers, at the Café on 02/08/11

Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/08/11 & a number of poems from books and magazines

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

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

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

the Mistakes he Made

See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/04/11

the moon

Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video (:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)

Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

See feature-length YouTube video 07/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her feature Astronomy 101 @ Chicago’s the Café

Download this writing in the free 07/19/11 PDF feature chapbook Astronomy 101

the muse, the messiah

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Listen to this track off the CD Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set through iTunes.

Watch this video: (2:41) This 1990s film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video (2:47)

Watch the YouTube video live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest

Watch this complete video: 12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video (This film’s at the Internet Archive)

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Muse, the Messiah) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Muse, the Messiah at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon fs200 camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Muse, the Messiah and the Cycle at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago 5/8/15 (filmed with a Canon Power Shot)

The Nightmare

Watch this YouTube video read live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago

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

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The One At Mardi Gras
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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

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

Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

Watch part of the poem video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (1:59)

Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)

Watch this YouTube video (1:59) performed live of the beginning of the 03/18/03 live performance art show Death Comes In Threes.

Watch this YouTube video live 03/08/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 03/08/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus the poems The One at Mardi Gras and Coslow’s, plus the Morrissey song Place in Hell covered

Watch this YouTube video live 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video llive 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live with a Blue Screen Key Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live with a Green Screen Key Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live with a Pastel Sketch Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live with an Old Film Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live with a Metallic Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live in Chicago 02/20/12 at Café Ballou (the day before Fat Tuesday, via Waiting 4 the Bus)

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems The One At Mardi Gras & kids wielding freedom and sin; then her flash fiction A Dream About Murder at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems The One At Mardi Gras & kids wielding freedom and sin; then her flash fiction A Dream About Murder at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Sony).

the One You Always Loved

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the One You Always Loved at the open mic 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (video filmed from the Canon camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the One You Always Loved at the open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from the Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poems, including this one (w/ live piano from Gary)

the page

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Watch the YouTube video (1:39) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Page (to inspiration) live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Page (to inspiration) {posterized} live 9/10/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Page from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (filmed from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Cycle, Wedding Lost and the Page (to inspiration) from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at Austin’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon)

See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Cycle, Wedding Lost and the Page (to inspiration) from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at Austin’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Nikon)

the perils of lovemaking

The Place

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The Power of the Devil

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Watch this YouTube video Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

Watch this full video from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem from her book Stabity Stabity Stab Stab Stab at the open mic 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems A Little Angel Inside, Whether Or Not It Is From Religion and The Power of the Devil at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (from a Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems A Little Angel Inside, Whether Or Not It Is From Religion and The Power of the Devil at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (from a Nikon CooPix S7000).

“The Power To Tell Her”/
“The Power To See Her”

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).

The Quiet One

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Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/01/09

the Randomness of Everything

Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

There I Sit
there i sit - in Finnish

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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something or Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection

Listen to studio or live tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?

Watch the YouTube video (6:15) 03/16/08, Live at the WordSlingers radio feature on WLUW Chicago radio (88.9FM)

Watch this YouTube video 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

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

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

See YouTube video 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)

See YouTube video 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 (Sony)

See YouTube video 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)

See YouTube video 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)

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

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her a mix of her poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name from memory at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (Canon Power Shot camera).

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).

the Real Bitch of It

Watch this YouTube video Live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video or all of the poems read live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video (studio session 03/16/09)

the road not taken

Listen to this recording from The DMJ Art Connection (1:12, recorded 06/06/08) ...or listen to this longer version also from The DMJ Art Connection (5:11 long version 06/06/08)

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

the Room of the Rape

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Watch this YouTube video (3:36) live 11/09/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro from the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 11/02/10 and this poem

The Same For You
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

the Second Death

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Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe 12/16/08, Chicago

the self-knifing?

The Sky Is Always Blue

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Sky Is Always Blue 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 The Sky Is Always Blue 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera, w/ a Cyan hue).

the solutions to the answer

The State of the Nation
[in French] [in German] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

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

Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)

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

Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life

Watch the YouTube video 10/03/06 the Lake County Poets Society on TV 4 times, 12/06

Watch this YouTube video (2:16) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06

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

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

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

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

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa)

Watch this YouTube video of her reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music bt the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung camera

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Kodak camera

Watch this YouTube video the majority (all but th last 2 poems) of her reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (from the Kodak camera) including this writing

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The State of the Nation at the open mic 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (video filmed from the Canon camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The State of the Nation at the open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from the Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poems, including this one (w/ live piano from Gary)

The State of the Nation (2016 edit)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (filmed from a Canon fs200 video camera for simultaneous television broadcast on stage).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (filmed from a Sony camera).

Download all of the show poems in the free PDF file download chapbook Voting for Change containing the poems poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit)

The Tears

Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive

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

Watch this YouTube video (:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)

See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/04/11

the things they did to you
2012 translation of the things they did to you - in Slovak: Veci ktoré Ti urobili
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

Listen: (3:45) to this recording from Fusion Or order any track from the CD Fusion off of iTunes...

Listen (3:08, recorded 04/13/08) to either mix (2:49 withy a cool alternate voice effect, recorded 04/13/08) sampled by the DMJ Art Connection

Watch this YouTube video (2:17) read 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video live at Waiting 4 the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

Watch this YouTube video of 3 death-related poems (including this one) live at Waiting 4 the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Sony camera).

The Things Warren Says

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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux

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

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

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Watch the YouTube video (:42, 05/05/07)

Watch this YouTube video of the first 4 poems performed (3:58) at the Red Lion Pub 08/14/07 at the live show Seeing Things Differently You can also see the above video on Bollywood or Google Video

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Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

Watch this YouTube video (:28) live 06/14/11 at

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

The Third or fourth Fourth of September
The Third or fourth Fourth of September - in Czech

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The Time To Myself

The Truth and Liars

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Truth and Liars (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Truth and Liars (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S)

The View of the Alley

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

Get this on Poetic Pieces - a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem The View of the Alley 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (hue cycling)

The Way You Tease Me
[in French] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One this was also released both in studio: and live: to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control

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

Watch this YouTube video (2:22) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

Watch this YouTube video (2:26) recorded of dancing Boobies (birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos os Islands)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Way You Tease Me (2:50) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control.

Listen: (3:38) to this recording from Fusion

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

Watch the YouTube video or get the full audio track: live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest

Watch this complete video: 12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chciago Poetry Fest show on video (This film’s at the Internet Archive)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

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

the world

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the world (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the world (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S)

The Worst Nightmare Ever

The Writing Of My Life

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

Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/01/09

Their Crutches

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux

Watch this YouTube video 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

Then That Too

there are too many poems about you, david

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem There Are Too Many Poems About You, David 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 There Are Too Many Poems About You, David 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

There I Sit
there i sit - in Finnish

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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

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

Listen to studio or live tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?

Watch the YouTube video (6:15) 03/16/08, Live at the WordSlingers radio feature on WLUW Chicago radio (88.9FM)

Watch this YouTube video 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

there is a fire in my heart

This is on the collection CD The Final. Get a copy for only $6.22.

These Theories With John

they called it trust
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

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Watch this YouTube video 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

They Know How You Feel

They Never Ask Me

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

Listen to studio or live tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?

Watch this YouTube video 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

Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life

from poems on religion - they see independently

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

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

They Tried

Watch this YouTube video 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

Watch this YouTube video read live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Watch this Complete feature video of the FULL SHOW of most everyone performing live 10/04/11 at the Café for Chicago Calling, including Kuypers performing poetry with accompanying music & video

Things I Find Charming
Things I’ve Needed

Think About It Much

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

Thinking. I hate that.

Watch this YouTube video read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago

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

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mic 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mic 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera)

Think of It

Listen: (3:33) to this recording from Fusion

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Thinks That Through
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Thirteen Seconds

Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/17/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago

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

Listen (1:57) to this studio recording from the DMJ Art Connection

This Halloween

Watch this YouTube video John Yotko reading live, the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

Watch this YouTube video (1:07) live 10/26/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro the the open mic and the poem, live 10/26/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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

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

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

This Halloween Again

Watch this YouTube video >(1:07) live 11/02/10 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro from the open mic at the Café in Chicago 11/02/10

This Is My Burden

Listen: (5:24) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe 12/16/08, Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08

This Is My Dilemma
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

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

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

This Is What It’s Reduced To Now
this is what it means

This is What You Leave Me

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem This is What you Leave Me 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 This is What you Leave Me 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

This Isn’t Fair

This May Sound

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Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD: CD:

Watch this YouTube video live @ Beach Poets 07/18/10 in Chicago

this may sound (edited)

this is only a test ((haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku this is only a test live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku this is only a test live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

This You Don’t Hate.
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CDetc. ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD: CD:

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem This you Don’s Hate live 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem This you Don’s Hate live 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

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

three minutes for three dollars

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/20/10

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Thulium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Thulium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Canon - end of poem cut off)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at MOST of her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

Tickle-Me Elmo

‘Til The Fear In Me Subsides
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Listen to music from the CD Tick Tock (with music by 5D/5D)

Watch this YouTube video read live on her wedding day (May 7, 2000)

Watch this YouTube video of John reading this Kuypers poemm live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mic 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

Watch this YouTube video of John reading this Kuypers poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mic 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera)

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Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poem Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me in honor of her new book release a year long Journey live on her birthday 6/22/15 at Laschet’s in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poem Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me in honor of her new book release a year long Journey live on her birthday 6/22/15 at Laschet’s in Chicago (Canon fs200 X-Ray)

timing ((haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku timing live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku timinglive 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and reading this poem 2/12/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — including reading this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku timing as a 6 second JK Poetry Vine live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

Timing Is Everything
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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

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

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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

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Listen: (1:37) to this recording from Fusion

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand

See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand

Tin (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in her feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Edge Detection filter)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Watercolor filter)

Download this poem in the free chapbook in Homage, w/ Periodic Table poems read live 4/18/13 at Fizz bar - to a beat - in Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 5/8/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 5/8/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/8/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the Charlie Newman feature

Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem “Tin” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 before her Tag Team feature reading

Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers performing Periodic Table poetry to a beat in Nashville TN 5/18/13 before the Tag Team feature reading

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Tin read live in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (Sony) reading the “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Tin, Einsteinium & Nobelium live in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Tin, Einsteinium & Nobelium in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night (Samsung)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Tin in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Tin (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Tin (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square), Threshold

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), w/ Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon P.S.), with Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

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.

Tired of Life

Watch the YouTube video (4:22) Used in this Jez Fry video in England called “Escapism”. Camerawork: Duane Espinal & Jez Fry, Actor: Stu Eve, Music: “Opalin” by Aes Dana, Ultimate Records.

Watch this YouTube video Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

Watch this full video from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive

Tired of Trying (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

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).

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).

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Titanium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “very short hymn”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Titanium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “very short hymn”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (S)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading eleven Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago (filmed with the Canon video camera), including this poem

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 9 Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago (filmed with the Sony video camera), including this poem

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

to be different

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

See feature-length YouTube 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

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

To Get To That Point

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Watch this YouTube video l(1:16) live 04/05/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 04/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago as well as original writing, including this piece

to lisa

To The River

Watch the YouTube video (1:56) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets You can also see the above video on Yahoo or Google Video

Watch this YouTube video (1:56) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

Too Far
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
You can also see this poem published through PNG
holding hands(expanded, extreme sestina variation)

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Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Watch this YouTube video live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99

Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

Order this iTunes track: from Chaos in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD: CD:

Listen Live at the Café 6/22/04, now available in a 3 CD set or Listen Live at the Cafe 8/28/04 (bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2004)

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Watch the Urbanation YouTube video (1:21, 02/22/04)

Watch the video (3:46) 3 poems read live (05/19/07) at the Jared Smith book release: Too Far, Headache & the Burning. This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video (1:43, 11/21/95)

Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Watch the YouTube video (1:41) live 08/05/07 at Beach Poets

Listen to this from the CD release from her first performance art show (8/14/97) Seeing Things Differently - or click on the CD cover to order tracks from this release.

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Listen to this live track from the Second Axing, or get it off the CD Live in Alaska.

Watch this YouTube video airing 4 times on TV 12/06

from the show A Night of Firsts: This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video (1:41, 06/22/04)

Listen (or listen live) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Too Far (2:24) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live as the final feature at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control.

Watch this YouTube video live in the Peter Jones Gallery 10/09/08 Chiago show HA!man Collaborations

Watch this YouTube video poem video broadcast on Nashville TV, show #1 of Speer Presents

Watch this YouTube video poem video broadcast on Nashville TV, show #2 of Speer Presents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watch this YouTube video 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

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.

Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

Watch this YouTube video l12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mic 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem (about Ani DiFranco, and not Kim Basinger) 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem (about Ani DiFranco, and not Kim Basinger) 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD Live in Alaska ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

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 Too Far 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 Too Far 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!

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Too Far live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Too Far live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S) at her interview & reading

See YouTube video 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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem holding hands in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference (to John Y.’s music), then reading her poems Fantastic Car Crash and Too Far 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference (to John Y.’s music), then reading her poems Fantastic Car Crash and Too Far 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Too Far live 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Too Far live 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video (Cfs) 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

See YouTube video (Cps) 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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems from memory, Too Far, Fantastic Car Crash, and Under the Sea 6/26/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems from memory, Too Far, Fantastic Car Crash, and Under the Sea 6/26/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Sony camera).

Too Many Guns

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

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

Watch this YouTube video from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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

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

Watch this YouTube video or listen from iTunes: live 10/21/03 in her show the Other Side at theCafé in Chicago

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

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

Listen to two different versions of this piece as a CD recording on the Entropy Project

Watch this YouTube video TAKE 1, read by C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) Nashville 12/20/08

Watch this YouTube video TAKE 2, read by C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) Nashville 12/20/08

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem Too Much Light live 5/8/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem Too Much Light live 5/8/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/8/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the Charlie Newman feature

Touch

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Watch this YouTube video read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago

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

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

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) that includes this poem

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) that includes this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, starting and ending w/ her poetry mini features, with this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poems “Touching Cobalt” and PART of the poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Sony) that includes this poem

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon) that includes this poem

Download this poem in the free chapbook Mega Reading, w/ Periodic Table poems read live 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago

Transcribing Dreams one
All of the Transcribing Dreams poems can also be seen in the Starite Cafe

Listen: (1:37) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago

Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD: CD:

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08

Watch this YouTube video lread live 1/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago

Transcribing Dreams two
All of the Transcribing Dreams poems can also be seen in the Starite Cafe

Listen: (1:49) to this recording from Fusion

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Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading Transcribing Dreams two at Waiting 4 the Bus 6/2/14 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading Transcribing Dreams two at Waiting 4 the Bus 6/2/14 in Chicago (Posterized)

Transcribing Dreams three
All of the Transcribing Dreams poems can also be seen in the Starite Cafe

Listen to a live track off the CD and performance art show Dreams (02/03/04)

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

Watch this YouTube video (2:46) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04

Watch this YouTube video (3:17) the TV screen broadcastfrom the Chicago show Dreams, live 02/03/04 You can also see the above video on msn or Video First Game or msn (even at the Chinese YouTube.ch

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

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Watch this YouTube video live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Transcribing Dreams 3 from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Transcribing Dreams 3 from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Translation

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Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/06/10

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mic 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mic 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera)

Translation (2014 haiku) ((haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Translation (2014 haiku) 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)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Translation (2014 haiku) 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 (SCG)

Trapped

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Travel Through Space

Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

See feature-length YouTube video 07/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her feature Astronomy 101 @ Chicago’s the Café

Download this writing in the free 07/19/11 PDF feature chapbook Astronomy 101

Tribal Scream

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

Order this iTunes track from the collection poetry music CD Side A ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:

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

Get this on Poetic Pieces - a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!).

Order the STUDIO track on CD 13 from the CD set Live (an extensive 13 CD 2010 CD set)    as performed by Mark Clayton Graham in New Mexico

Watch this YouTube video Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

Watch this full video from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video read from the full color book Living in a Big World, live 12/14/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video 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

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

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

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

True Happiness in the New Millennium
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CDetc. ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD: CD:

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

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

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

Watch this YouTube video 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)

Watch the YouTube TV film (10/03/06, the Lake County Poets Society, on TV 4 times 12/06)

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Watch the YouTube video (Urbanation, 3:39, 02/22/04) You can also see the above video on Google Video or Video First Game

Watch the YouTube video (4:48, live at Chicago’s “The Spot” 09/04/06) Or see the above YouTube video on Google Video or Political Video News

Watch the YouTube video (3:39) Live at the 11/09/07 show at Hokin Gallery The Turn of the Word, Chicago Or see the above YouTube video on Bollywood

Or watch the complete video of The Turn of the Word live 11/09/07 Chicago’s Hokin Gallery 7:54

Listen: (5:30) to this recording from Fusion

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

Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

Watch this YouTube video 3/5/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

Watch this YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece

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 of Kuypers reading part of this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

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

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery poetry open mic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square), Threshold

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium live 7/16/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium live 7/16/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems True Happiness in the New Millennium, Just Desperation and Other Souls at the 5 year anniv. of the open mic Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing in Wicket Park, Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems True Happiness in the New Millennium, Just Desperation and Other Souls at the 5 year anni. of the open mic Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing in Wicket Park, Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon Power Shot), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video (Nikon CoolPix S7000) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium 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).

True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (filmed from a Canon fs200 video camera for simultaneous television broadcast on stage).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (filmed from a Sony camera).

Download all of the show poems in the free PDF file download chapbook Voting for Change containing the poems poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit)

trust

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 never before read poems One and Six, just to be on the safe side and Trust 5/8/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 never before read poems One and Six, just to be on the safe side and Trust 45/8/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Trying
This poem was Published in png poetry on line
see this poem at the Open Scroll

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Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

Trying to Change Fate

Watch this YouTube video Live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video or all of the poems read live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video (studio session 03/16/09)

Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Trying to Change Fate” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Trying to Change Fate 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 Trying to Change Fate 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!

trying to make this work

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

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

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

twin

Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 07/13/08 You can also see the above video at Yidio

07/13/08, Beach poets Watch the entire performance video, which contains this poem (25:19) from the Internet Archive

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

Watch this YouTube video live 4/12/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 04/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago

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

Tumbling Diaper Seeks Fresh Baby

Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

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

Watch the YouTube video live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in Evanston IL feature 06/25/11

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

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

Download this poem in the free chapbook the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video 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)

Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live in Chicao at “Poetry Love Letters” 11/9/12 (Sony)

Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live in Chicao at “Poetry Love Letters” 11/9/12 (phone camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Tungsten live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Tungsten live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing

Two Minutes with a Decrepit Idol

Watch this YouTube video live at Cafe Ballou in Chicago 01/18/10

Two Minutes With Ayn Rand
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

Order this iTunes track from the collection poetry music CD Side A ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:

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

Listen: (2:00) Or order the collection poetry music CD Fusion from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Watch this YouTube video (2:09) live 04/19/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 04/19/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Two Minutes with Ayn Rand live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Two Minutes with Ayn Rand live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Two Minutes with Ayn Rand live 7/16/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Two Minutes with Ayn Rand live 7/16/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

Two Not Mute poems (in Haiku form)

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

Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

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

Watch this YouTube video (:28) read live 02/08/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book Dark Matter: the Mind of Janet Kuypers, at the Café on 02/08/11

Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/08/11 & a number of poems from books and magazines

Experimental Poetry: Two Years

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