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Watch this YouTube video live, 18 Years of Beach Poets 08/31/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems knowing and lurking for eons, Conversations: a Day of Grieving 1/22/94 eight and Writing Your Name 5/1/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems knowing and lurking for eons, Conversations: a Day of Grieving 1/22/94 eight and Writing Your Name 5/1/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 eight when their mother died they asked me to deliver the sermon i make it a policy to meet with the family try to understand the deceased before i give a sermon they met with me told me how she made ceramic nativity scenes for all of her grandchildren i asked if a grandson could bring me a set to see i kept them in my office for two days when i first picked them up and looked at them i noticed there were no brush strokes then i looked more closely and saw fingerprints at the service i placed the figurines on pillars each with one candle and said her prints are on these figures and her mark has been made on all of us two weeks later they gave me a madonna with her prints on it it is a work of art Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.