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After the Wreckage
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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  Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show |
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Listen  to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09 |
Watch this full video from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive |
The Battle At Hand
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
Listen  to the CD recording for the 06/11/02 performance art show 6/11
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Watch the YouTube video Urbanation (2:48, 02/22/04) |
 Watch this YouTube video (3:33) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07 |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Battle At Hand, after she introduces the first day of the open mic she hosts in Chicago for over 5 years, live at the Cafe in Chicago 1/12/10. |
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Listen: (2:30) to this recording from Fusion |
(2:41)from the 6/11 show 06/11/02 from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02 |
Change My Perspective
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
in two separate locations
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Watch this YouTube video (1:32) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07 |
Changing City
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 04/13/10 |
Or see the full YouTube video to the intro live at the Cafe in Chicago 04/13/10, after this poem and the Robert Lawrence Haiku (wind) from v207 (April 2010) of cc&d magazine |
a crack in the glass
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Crush/But I Won’t
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Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09 |
My Dead Daughter
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One |
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Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show |
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Or watch the FULL video from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show |
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Listen to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.
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From The Dead
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Do I Still
Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
i have to explain
All Your Fault>
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen: (1:37) to this recording from Fusion |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
damned green
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Everything is New
Watch this YouTube video Kuypers and C Ra McGuirt, Memphis, at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09 |
For Now I’ll Think
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Gears get Caught in the Mud
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Listen to the live readingfrom the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03 |
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Genealogically
Gerbil
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Watch this YouTube video (1:16) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
Grab The Other’s Neck
also see this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set, as a bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2005 |
Watch this YouTube video (3:26) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07 |
Watch this YouTube video (3:09) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD |
 Watch the YouTube video or get the full audio track:  live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest |
Watch this complete video:12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video (This film’s at the Internet Archive) |
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Holding My Skin Together
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Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion |
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Listen: (1:06) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago |
See YouTube video of a compilation of Janet Kuypers’ poems Holding My Skin Together, Any Help At All, conversations three (a day of grieving), transcribing dreams one, the flashback, By Who I Don’t Know, and Did you know I was watching? in the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago
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Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08 |
How Much For Your Poem
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago 05/18/09 |
how women look in men’s clothing
i can hear
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
in two different locations
instead of feeling nervous
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video (5:57) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07 |
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Life
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Like the Whiteness
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Lost in the Breeze
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
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Military Police
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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) |
 Listen: (2:34) to this recording from Fusion, now for sale at iTunes. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Military Police (1:53) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control. |
Memorial Day
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09) |
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See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
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See the full Disenfranchised Doggerel show video w/ this poem (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
My Second Marriage
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen live from the 03/03/02 CD & the Chicago 09/10/02 performance art show Stop. Look. Listen. |
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Listen: (3:40) to this recording from Fusion |
  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C, edge d.) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery, (S, Threshold) |
Once Wanted You as my Friend
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Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life |
Watch this YouTube video (3:37) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07 |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Once Wanted You as my Friend 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Once Wanted You as my Friend 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago Cps |
See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
People’s Lives Were at Stake
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Listen: (4:49) to this recording from Fusion (or order the CD by clicking on the CD cover) |
(mixed 07/03/09) to this poetry, combined with Los - Break Free from the HA!Man of South Africa off the CD “Seeing a Psychiatrist”
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem People’s Lives were at Stake live 8/28/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
Praying to Idols
See this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
And is listed in ChicagoPoetry.com’s 2005 Chicago Poety Fest
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set, as a bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2005 |
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Listen: (1:58) to this recording from Fusion |
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Watch the YouTube video or get the full audio track: live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest
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Watch this complete video: 12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video (This film’s at the Internet Archive) |
the Real Bitch of It
Watch this YouTube video Live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09 |
Watch this YouTube video or all of the poems read live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09 |
Watch this YouTube video (studio session 03/16/09) |
I’m A Record Now
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2004 |
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Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show |
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Or watch the FULL video from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show |
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Listen to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.
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This is on the collection CD The Final. Get a copy for only $6.22. |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:31) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD |
Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09 |
Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09 |
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Scars 2000
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
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watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/5/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this writing |
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs) |
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cps) |
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See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
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See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
Scenarios 2000
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Listen: (2:22) to this recording from Fusion, or order this track, or any track, off the CD Fusion at iTunes
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Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/08/09 |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Knotted Hate, Floating Away with the Tide and Scenarios 2000 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cfs) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Knotted Hate, Floating Away with the Tide and Scenarios 2000 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cps) |
Start All Over
also see this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe at two different locations
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Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09 |
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stop drop and roll
tapes the key hole
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Two Minutes with a Decrepit Idol
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olive at Cafe Ballou in Chicago 01/18/10 |
What It Felt Like
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen to this live recording as an mp3 file, a (low quality)  wav file or even as a real audio (.ra) file, performed live at Cafe Aloha 05/22/01. |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09 |
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