Chapter 38 is volume one of the collection book series of the writing (and occasional artwork) from Janet Kuypers which has been performed in poetry readings and performance art shows.
With a title based on the first chapbook Kuypers ever released, Chapter 18 (which was released when Kuypers was 18 years old), this book set will contain a history of her work performed in performance art shows and poetry readings. Because there was so much material over the years to cover in this collection, it was divided into two volumes (and both are released within the span of Kuypers being 38 years old).
Because of recent printer changes, this volume is now available as both a cc&d 6"x9" supplement book set (released earlier and less detailed as the digest-sized volume) and as a digest-sized 5.5"x8.5" book set. Because of design constraints, the cc&d 6"x9" book release of Chapter 38 v2 is not as complete as the digest-sized book release (at 270 pages, ending with the St. Paul’s Performance Art Show). In the 2009 digest-sized releases of Chapter 38 (v1 & 2), both books are also exactly 380 pages.
Below is a listing of all of the writings in this volume (plus links when possible to the poetry readings/performance art shows). In this listing of published writings, not all of the pieces in the show may be listed here, because some pieces were used in more than one show (and for clarity sake, the volume lists the writing in only one location, though some pieces are repeated for performance art sake in v1 of the digest-sized book release).
This volume is currently available for sale online in two different formats...

Below is a listing of all of the writings appearing in the book (the artwork is not listed on this page.) Also, we have listed the book contents for these two books side by side, so you can see the differences between them (also, sections missing from volume 1 may appear in volume 2 of Chapter 38 as well).

Contents of the 6"x9" book:

And I’m Wondering
Christmas Eve
Communication
Conversations, a Day of Grieving, 1/22/94 II
Coquinas
Everything Was Alive And Dying
Headache
Helping Men In Public Places
He Told Me His Dreams 1
He Told Me His Dreams 4
He Told Me His Dreams 9
I Want
Japanese Television
Last Before Extinction
Medication
New To Chicago
My MotherMy MotherMy Mother
More Than We Should Have
Packing
Philosopher at the Blue note
She Was A Woman
The Carpet Factory, The Shoes
The State of the Nation
Too Far
Transcribing Dreams 3
Warren Stories
Kurt Irons (It’ Just a Girl)
Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News
White Knuckled

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Supposed To Be Done
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the NASA Project
Moonlight
Looking For A Worthy Adversary
Work Journal one
Why I’ll Never Get Married
Work Journal two
The Battle At Hand
The Effects of 9/11
New To Chicago
Right There, By Your Heart
The Burning
Death Takes Many Forms
After 7/11 one
Death Is A Dog
After 7/11 two
Changing Garments
After 7/11 three
King of the Universe
After 7/11 four
Fantastic Car Crash

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Love Has Tendrils
Here It Goes Again
I Am the Woman who loves Pain
Run Faster
Sorry Flowers
Never Did the Same
The Deep End
All These Reminders
You and Me and Your Girlfriend
Who You Tell Your Dreams To
Loved You the Most
My Second Marriage
Number 136
Walking With You
Watching You
With You
Waiting For You
Without You
The Way You Tease Me
How Do I Explain It

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For My Car or My Life
Life in 1997
True Happiness in the New Millennium
New Orleans talk
the One at Mardi Gras
Deaths one and two
Princess Diana, One Year Later
Deaths Come in Waves of Threes
the Morning of July Eleventh
Twelve Thirty, July Eleventh
in Every Car Accident,
There Are Actually Three Crashes
Their Crutches
Elvira Doe
Fences and Straight Jackets
Wrapping up the Harness
Someone Give me the Answers
Sometimes it’s Not
Hallucinations
Imagining Friends and Loved Ones
Imagining Dave
Will Be Just Fine
They wouldn’t trust me with a razor
No One Gave Me Flowers
As I Recovered
Any Help At All
Get It Over With
Like My Motto
Isn’t That What It’s All About
A Beacon ALone
Making Sense out of the Insane
Feel So Much
Indoctrination With Religion
Being God
Seizures, Reactions & Drugs
Medication
What the Third Death is Like
Pressure on Me Again
I’m Not Sick, but I’m Not Well
A Gun to my Head
Don’t Need the Crutches
Better
what have I won
I Recover, & Everyone Moves On

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God Eyes
In the Air
A Match
On the California Streets
Ways to Spend your Money
“Type A” Person
the Bridge to New Orleans
Jackson Square/Bourbon Street
All The Details
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Two Not Mute Haikus
Gears Get Caught In The Mud
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After the Wreckage
Weren’t Even Married
My Dead Daughter
I’m a Record Now
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On an Airplane with a Frequent Flyer
Done This Before
Sometimes the Light
Too Much Light
Venture to the Unknown
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Andrew Hettinger
I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much
Burn It In
Odd How Things Turn Out That Way.
Timing Is Everything
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Realistic Dreams
the Dream
He Told Me His Dreams 5
Dreams 01/19/04 Three
a Dream About Murder.
People’s Rights Misunderstood
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Under the Sea
In Love I Abide
The Little Difference
Tight Rope Affair
What We Need in Life
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Questionsin a World
Without Answers
(10/05/04)

Squid
Russians At A Garage Sale
Content With Inferior Men
Private Lives One
Private Lives Four
Scars 2000
People’s Lives Were At Stake

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Tall Man
High Roller
There I Sit
Writing Your Name
The Fourteenth
At Least I have This
I Am The Woman Who Loves Pain
That’s Not What I’m Here For
They Never Ask Me
What Do We Say
Lambs To Heaven’s Gate
Orion

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bonus supplement:
original 1988 chapbook

Like Daggers
Sobering
Religion
Irony
Nights
the Nightmare
John
Touch
Love Poem
the Hand
Rendering Me
the Tears
oh Mother
This May Sound
How Could I Not Love You
Ice Cubes
When I Am Weak
I Cannot Love

Contents of the 5.5"x8.5" book:

And I’m Wondering
Christmas Eve
Communication
Conversations, a Day of Grieving, 1/22/94 II
Coquinas
Everything Was Alive And Dying
Headache
Helping Men In Public Places
He Told Me His Dreams 1
He Told Me His Dreams 4
He Told Me His Dreams 9
I Want
Japanese Television
Last Before Extinction
Medication
New To Chicago
My MotherMy MotherMy Mother
More Than We Should Have
Packing
Philosopher at the Blue note
She Was A Woman
The Carpet Factory, The Shoes
The State of the Nation
Too Far
Transcribing Dreams 3
Warren Stories
Kurt Irons (It’ Just a Girl)
Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News
White Knuckled

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Freedom Just Past the Fence
Supposed To Be Done
Feel So Much
Someone Give Me the Answers
Making Sense out of the Insane
Changing Garments
What We Need In Life

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the NASA Project
Moonlight
Looking For A Worthy Adversary
Work Journal one
Why I’ll Never Get Married
Work Journal two
The Battle At Hand
The Effects of 9/11
New To Chicago
Right There, By Your Heart
The Burning
Death Takes Many Forms
After 7/11 one
Death Is A Dog
After 7/11 two
Changing Garments
After 7/11 three
King of the Universe
After 7/11 four
Fantastic Car Crash

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Love Has Tendrils
Here It Goes Again
I Am the Woman who loves Pain
Run Faster
Sorry Flowers
Never Did the Same
The Deep End
All These Reminders
You and Me and Your Girlfriend
Who You Tell Your Dreams To
Loved You the Most
My Second Marriage
Number 136
Walking With You
Watching You
With You
Waiting For You
Without You
The Way You Tease Me
How Do I Explain It

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For My Car or My Life
Life in 1997
True Happiness in the New Millennium
New Orleans talk
the One at Mardi Gras
Deaths one and two
Princess Diana, One Year Later
Deaths Come in Waves of Threes
the Morning of July Eleventh
Twelve Thirty, July Eleventh
in Every Car Accident,
There Are Actually Three Crashes
Their Crutches
Elvira Doe
Fences and Straight Jackets
Wrapping up the Harness
Someone Give me the Answers
Sometimes it’s Not
Hallucinations
Imagining Friends and Loved Ones
Imagining Dave
Will Be Just Fine
They wouldn’t trust me with a razor
No One Gave Me Flowers
As I Recovered
Any Help At All
Get It Over With
Like My Motto
Isn’t That What It’s All About
A Beacon ALone
Making Sense out of the Insane
Feel So Much
Indoctrination With Religion
Being God
Seizures, Reactions & Drugs
Medication
What the Third Death is Like
Pressure on Me Again
I’m Not Sick, but I’m Not Well
A Gun to my Head
Don’t Need the Crutches
Better
what have I won
I Recover, & Everyone Moves On

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God Eyes
In the Air
A Match
On the California Streets
Ways to Spend your Money
“Type A” Person
the Bridge to New Orleans
Jackson Square/Bourbon Street
All The Details
My MotherMy MotherMy Mother
Everything Was Alive And Dying

---

Two Not Mute Haikus
Gears Get Caught In The Mud
Death Takes Many Forms
New To Chicago
Right There, By Your Heart
Headache

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After the Wreckage
Weren’t Even Married
My Dead Daughter
I’m a Record Now
My MotherMy MotherMy Mother
Everything Was Alive And Dying
Last Before Extinction

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On an Airplane with a Frequent Flyer
Done This Before
Sometimes the Light
Too Much Light
Venture to the Unknown
Packing

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Andrew Hettinger
I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much
Burn It In
Odd How Things Turn Out That Way.
Timing Is Everything
Gears Get Caught In The Mud

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Realistic Dreams
the Dream
He Told Me His Dreams 5
Dreams 01/19/04 Three
a Dream About Murder.
People’s Rights Misunderstood
He Told Me His Dreams 4
He Told Me His Dreams 9
Transcribing Dreams 3

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Under the Sea
Too Far
In Love I Abide
The Little Difference
Tight Rope Affair
What We Need in Life

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The Burning
Too Far
I’m a Record Now
New To Chicago Fantastic Car Crash

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Questionsin a World
Without Answers
(10/05/04)

Squid
Russians At A Garage Sale
Content With Inferior Men
Private Lives One
Private Lives Four
Scars 2000
People’s Lives Were At Stake
All Men Have Secrets
On the California Streets
Communication
Bun It In
True Happiness in the New Millennium
After the Wreckage
Right There, By Your Heart
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