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Watch this YouTube video (1:17) live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video from the intro to the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, & her short story Stalker

See YouTube video of two mini-features at the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, 1st of her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, then of her short story Stalker

See the 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)

Watch this YouTube video read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

See this YouTube video of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released

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).

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 (Nikon).

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

one by one, the beech trees fell Janet Kuypers 03/11/11 i have lived at this grove all my life the beautiful trees have always lined the roads the beech trees even lined the drive to our home everything was blooming by the end of May when you came in from the coast to our home and the war didn’t touch here could hear noise in the distance one morning he told me some trees have been already been felled on the General Field Marshall’s urgent orders Rommel was sure an attack was immanent they couldn’t leave trees for enemy hideouts and so they fell our trees, one by one looked out the front door, saw our stripped land these trees had souls, and no one mourns the loss of a species with roots in this land longer than we they didn’t do this everywhere: i hear they left some trees up in fields so glider planes would be destroyed while landing what lives are worth saving, i thought as the soldiers continued doing their job after the beech trees fell Copyright © 2011 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.