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Watch this YouTube video read live 11/27/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 11/27/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her poem “Us, Actually Touching”

Watch this YouTube video live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung)

Watch this YouTube video live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching 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 Us, Actually Touching 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 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with the Sony camera)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with Us, Actually Touching, Entering the Lake of Fire, & Unique Noise.

See YouTube video 4/27/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching) in her first appearance/interview on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (from a Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 4/27/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us, Actually Touching) in her first appearance/interview on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (from a Sony).

See YouTube video 4/27/16 of part 2 of the Janet Kuypers interview (with her reading her two poems Entering the Lake of Fire and Us, Actually Touching), in her first appearance on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 4/27/16 of part 2 of the Janet Kuypers interview (with her reading her two poems Entering the Lake of Fire and Us, Actually Touching), in her first appearance on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM radio (Sony).

See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (video filmed from a Sony camera).

Us, Actually Touching Janet Kuypers 11/21/11 I heard a physicist explain that when two solid objects are pressed together they never actually touch I can’t imagine it but maybe because electrons repel all objects remain one molecule apart I wonder if this is why when I see you and when we embrace I want to hold you tighter and tighter because I want to defy the laws of physics and feel that contact with you as long as I possibly can is this why whenever we embrace I want my face at your neck so that I inhale you deeply I breathe you in because I want to experience you with all my senses I want our molecules to intermingle I want us to actually touch Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.