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St. Paul’s Cultural Center
the final 20 minutes poetry feature on November 5th, 2008
 Charlie Newman’s First Friday series of monthly poetry performances was moved to a Wednesday, and the St. Paul’s Cultural Center (2215 W. North Ave., Chicago, just over 2 blocks west of the Damon Blue Line stop, street parking is available, and beer, wine, & soft drinks are available at cool-low prices... and it even had Free Admission). The second time it ever ran at St. Paul’s, the show was performed at the upstairs desanctified church (with a large painting of Jesus Christ behind her, and a large pipe organ to the side while she read her poetry). Janet Kuypers was the final feature for this evening of poetry, performing in a desanctified church on November 5th of 2008. The evening’s performance was scheduled to start at 7:30 in the evening, but probablu began at arounf 7:50, leaving Kuypers’ finale performance to start towards 8:15 in the evening, with probably just over 20 minutes of reading poetry. Kuypers read (per her usual style) many pieces concrening death, but she intersperced her longer pieces with more entertaining shorter poems (to vary the mood of the show during the evening).
Not only was Kuypers highlighted in this poetry evening, but also Tom Curry (who also had free chapbooks and CDs), Elizabeth Harper and Larry O Dean were featured that evening.
Kuypers also released a chapbook of potential poems she would read for this feature, called St. Paul’s
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enjoy the full video
of the entire show |
Download any track from this show, or download bonus tracks with the same background music from the show, from theelectronic release of the 3 CD Set for St. Paul’s at places like iTunes.
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Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago
 
(23:58) from the Internet Archive |
listen 
to the entire live show, 23:41) |
Watch the complete feature video with 11 poems live, from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church (23:58)
this video is from the Internet Archive |
...on to the poems:
(in the order they were read during the show)
The 3 CD Set St. Paul’s contains not only both the studio and live versions of all of the pieces performed in this desanctified church in Chicago, but it also contains a large number of studio recordings of poems with the same background rainforest noise that was used during the live show. Any of the tracks above (as well as the long list of tracks below) can be obtained for a number of music electronic outlets, including iTunes.
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additional tracks in the 3 CD Set St. Paul’s include:
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