Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

Value from Nothingness (a two-tweet poem)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Value from Nothingness/U> live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Value from Nothingness live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Found Haiku from memory in conversation live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery including this poem

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Value from Nothingness from Down in the Dirt v129, “a Bad Influence” live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

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

Download this poem in the free PDF file
Science vs. Mysticism chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch YouTube video
of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)

Watch YouTube video
of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (C)

Watch YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series back and forth with poems by Buddha309 in Science vs. Mysticism, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vanadium 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 Vanadium 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

See YouTube video 6/26/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems, Vent, Each Half is the Enemy, and her Periodic Table poem Vanadium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken & Heard (w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

Vanishing Scars

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot).

Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

Watch the YouTube video

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

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ live piano from Gary)

Watch this Youtube video
of Janet Kuypers 5/18/13 reading this poem
“Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale” 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 Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale from the Jan./Feb. 2014 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine, titled I Pull the Strings, live 2/26/14 at the open mic she hosts the Café Gallery (every other Wednesday at Gallery Cabaret) in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale from the Jan./Feb. 2014 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine, titled I Pull the Strings, live 2/26/14 at the open mic she hosts the Café Gallery (every other Wednesday at Gallery Cabaret) in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs200, FlCrSat)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems one by one, the beech trees fell, Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale, and My Future Job Options 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).

Vengeful Phone (twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vengeful Phone live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vengeful Phone live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Posterized)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Michael Hoag feature 12/4/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago - INCLUDING THI POEM

Vent

See YouTube video
of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Vent 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video
of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Vent 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon Power Show camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems, Vent and extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems, Vent and extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon Power Show camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Rap Sheet” (Cfs) live at the Cafe Cabaret at Cafe Ballou in Chicago 6/19/15, with the poems each of you carry one body each, uncuffed and printed, Entering Courtroom 101, Vent, and only option is fighting.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Rap Sheet” (Cps) live at the Cafe Cabaret at Cafe Ballou in Chicago 6/19/15, with the poems each of you carry one body each, uncuffed and printed, Entering Courtroom 101, Vent, and only option is fighting.

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Rap Sheet”, w/ poems performed
live 6/19/15 at Cafe Ballou, in the Cafe Cabaret (Chicago)

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Rap Sheet” Expanded Report,

with long versions of poems (and a bonus poem) in her “Rap Sheet” show 6/19/15 at Cafe Ballou, in the Cafe Cabaret (Chicago)

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.

Venture to the Unknown

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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)

Watch this YouTube video
read 11/30/10, live at the Café in Chicago

victim - a song

Listen

to this original song
from Mom’s Favorite Vase.

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song Victim (John on guitar, 3:49) live 6/28/11 at the Café in Chicag.o

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song Victim (John on guitar, 3:49) with the Edge Detection filter, live 6/28/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song Victim (John on guitar, 3:49) with the Sepia Tone filter, live 6/28/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song Victim (John on guitar, 3:49) with the Film Age (older) filter live 6/28/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song Victim (John on guitar, 3:49) with the Threshold filter, live 6/28/11 at the Café in Chicago

Videotaping Accident Recollections

Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin (Sony), first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin (Cps), first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman).

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

Violence There

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

violent affair

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem violent affair 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’ poem Violent Affair (Cfs) from the cc&d magazine 2015 issue collection book Salvation (issues and chapbooks edition) live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poem Violent Affair (Cps) from the cc&d magazine 2015 issue collection book Salvation (issues and chapbooks edition) live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

Visakhapatnam (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Visakhapatnam in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Visakhapatnam in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

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

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), of 14 poems (INCLUDING THIS HAIKU POEM) with background music

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“India Stories”,
w/ poems read to music on 3/14/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago

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

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

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Visakhapatnam, from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 issues book the Intersection (11/27/15)

Visions were Justified

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Visions were Justified, Excuses for Skipping Work and Earth was Crying at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (from a Canon Power Shot).

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