a Very Goth Beach Party Beach Poets Sunday, July 3rd 2011 (07/03/11)     Janet Kuypers featured at Beach Poets at Loyola Beach in Chicago (Greenleaf and the lake, just east of Sheridan Road and 4 blocks north of the Loyola el stop, near Heartland Cafe), hosted by Cathleen Schandelmeier and Peter Bartels, on Sunday, July 3rd 2011, along with blues musician and poet Cousin Bones (when she met him at Beach Poets the previous year, she immediately asked him to feature at the poetry/performance art open mic she hosts at the Café). Because when she met Cousin Bones the previous year at Beach Poets, he came with his guitar fressed in all black (black shirt and pants and shoes, on the beach in the middle of the day), so she knew she had to wear black to this feature while he played guitar behind some of her poetry and call this show “a Ver Goth Poetry Feature”.      Because of a “mini spy camera” she just got (and to test to see how the mini camera works), Kuypers taped the camera to the brim of her black cap (while the hat had a Morrissey image promoting Vegetarianism, along with the Smith album title “Meat is Murder” — to make her goth image look more complete, of course) and got an additional recording of actually just her mough as she performed the entire show. Because the camera (and the camera’s microphone) was so close to her, her vocals from this camera are slightly distorted, but it is a loud additional vocal rendition of this performance (with fewer noises from the beach or the audience in this audio recording).     Most of the poems chosen for this show were ready for background music from Cousin Bones, but a select few pieces — a poem that was meant to be sung (which John Yotko sang along with) and one3 song at the end of the show (that Janet Kuypers wrote the lyrics for and helped design the music for with John Yotko). The last poem in the show was also a suggestion for everyone to sing any song to while she read (and John Yotko sang, and Cousin Bones, played the harmonica to). So check out the chapbook and the video links below from this live beach performance!. download the free “a Ver Goth Poetry Party” chapbook today! before the show started... someone read a Kuypers twitter-length poem and Kuypers read another twitter-length poem (because Kuypers handed out free copies of a modified hard copy of the chapbook “Pocket Poetry”) Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dentist in Iraq Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch the YouTube video of this BEFORE the live Chicago show of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets” Rex reading the Janet Kuypers poem Our Lady of Humility’s Hypocrisy Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch the YouTube video of the lip xam of Kuypers hearing Rex read this in Chicago before her feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets” on to the poems... (listed in the order they were read) “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 06/29/11 of Kuypers’ poems: Look at the Downs, Made Any Difference, Egg for a Week, Escaping Every Cage (with twitter-length poem “Labeled Me Again” read inside poem), Eat Me Alive, Letting Ourselves Go, and singing her song Tight Rope Affair 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 Janet Kuypers reading her poem Look at the Downs Rather read it? Then read the original writing 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” Janet Kuypers SINGING her poem (John Yotko background) Made Any Difference Rather read it? Then read the original writing 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” Janet Kuypers reading her poem Egg for a Week Rather read it? Then read the original writing 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” Janet Kuypers reading her poem Escaping Every Cage with the twitter-length poem read inside the poem Labeled Me Again Rather read it? Then read the original writing of Escaping Every Cage... Or the original writing of Labeled Me Again. Watch the YouTube video of JUST Escaping Every Cage in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets” Watch the YouTube video of JUST Escaping Every Cage from the lip cam in the live feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets” Watch the YouTube video of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again in the 07/03/11 Beach Poets “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature Watch the YouTube video of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again from the lip cam live 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets” Watch the YouTube video of JUST Labeled Me Again 07/03/11 in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature at “Beach Poets” in Chicago Watch the YouTube video of JUST Labeled Me Again from the lip cam in the live feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets” Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eat Me Alive Rather read it? Then read the original writing 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” Janet Kuypers reading her poem Letting Ourselves Go Rather read it? Then read the original writing 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” Janet Kuypers singing her original song Tight Rope Affair (Janet Kuypers lyrics, John Yotko music) Rather read it? Then read the original writing 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” Cousoin Bones (holding his guitar), and Janet Kuypers (with her bunch of goth rose stems), grinning after the show