Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

2010

At the Camp

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of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku At the Camp live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

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Bar Poem 20100423

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

Became a Jungle

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the middle third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside that contains this writing

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read live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

be free of you

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(:20) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

bitter suburbs

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See YouTube video 9/12/1 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (from a Canon Power Shot, w/ a heat wave filter).

See YouTube video 9/12/15 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Build Your Own Cross

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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 07/27/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poem “You Will”, “Marine Rifle Poem” “Build Your Own Cross”, and “Waiting for a Sign”

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(:36) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 12/07/10 with this poem and other poems read live

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build Your Own Cross 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

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Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build your Own Cross (from the book She’s an Open Book) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build your Own Cross (from the book She’s an Open Book) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

Counting Bodies

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live at the Café in Chicago 04/20/10

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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2:44, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Counting Bodies” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

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the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

Don’t Forget to Write

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live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago

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live at New Year’s Unplugged

Drinking Their Life Away

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the first third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 with this writing

egg for a week

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of this in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

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of the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

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video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

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video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

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Evicted Today

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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

Finding Faith in a Grocery Store

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

Fingers Black

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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

for better or for worse

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part two of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

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See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem for Better or for Worse (in her books Partial Nudity and Twitterati) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

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Got on the Road Again

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 6/4/12

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Got on the Road Again” in Nashville TNin the Tag Team feature reading

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

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the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

How He Failed

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the first third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 with this writing

Read the Janet Kuypers twitter-length poem How He Failed in the Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking.

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hurt less then

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live at the Café in Chicago 05/11/10

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of the Janet Kuypers poem Hurt Less Then & the Charlie Newman poem If You Could See, at the intro for the Chicago open mic @ the Café 05/11/10

Just Can’t Breathe

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read from the book Living in a Big World, live 12/14/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro and the poems “Packing”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Tribal Scream” read live 12/14/10 from the open mic at the Café in Chicago

(1:19, 07/03/11)
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Live in Chicago at the Café

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video 07/05/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry @ Chicago’s the Café

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of the intro to the 07/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with poems and her Close Cover Before Striking poems

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

Just Let It Glide Over Me

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of this poem read live in her Pilsen feature “Games We Play” 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo (music from Francois Le Roux, the HA!man of South Africa)

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video of many poems read 3/17/12
at Café Mestizo from the live feature
“Games We Play”, w/ this poem

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Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean)

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live 10/08/10 at the Chicago Public Library (Avalon Branch), with cello from the HAman of South Africa

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from the v217, 02/11 cc&d (& the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Life... from Nothing, live 02/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

Keep Driving

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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

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Keep me Sane

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live at the Café in Chicago 08/10/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 08/10/10, w/ Kuypers reading this poem - and more

Keeps Pounding Against Walls

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from the v217, 02/11 cc&d (& the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Life... from Nothing, live 02/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

Keep Them Apart

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the first third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 with this writing

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

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Watch this Youtube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Keep Them Apart” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

Watch this Youtube video
of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook
the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Keep Them Apart from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Keep Them Apart from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

labeled me again

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the middle third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside that contains this writing

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of JUST Labeled Me Again 07/03/11 in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature at “Beach Poets” in Chicago

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of JUST Labeled Me Again from the lip cam in the live feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

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of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again in the 07/03/11 Beach Poets “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

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of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again from the lip cam live 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

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video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

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video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook

Left with a Hole
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

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of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show at Beach Poets, from archive.org

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with all of the writing in the live show

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds 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 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot video camera).

Live in my Imagination

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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

Loss

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the finale of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 with this writing

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part three of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

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of part 3 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

Loving Four

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 01/19/10

Marine Rifle Poem

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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

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of Wayne Allen Jones reading this 11/02/10, live at the Café in Chicago

no Heat in my Heart

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live at the Café in Chicago 05/11/10

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of the Janet Kuypers poem Hurt Less Then & the Charlie Newman poem If You Could See, at the intro for the Chicago open mic @ the Café 05/11/10

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no one will

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with an pastel sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

no thank you

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

observer’s love poem

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07/19/10, Café Ballou (at Waiting4the Bus), Chicago

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her observer’s improv (S, based on the poems seven and seven, plus eighteen, observations: nine and six, ten and ten, plus two, eleven and two, plus eight, and observer’s love poem) live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her observer’s improv (C, based on the poems seven and seven, plus eighteen, observations: nine and six, ten and ten, plus two, eleven and two, plus eight, and observer’s love poem) live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin (Cps), first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin (Sony), first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity.

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Love in the Universe
5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin

On Ashes (haiku, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

Watch this YouTube video (:15) from the v217, 02/11 cc&d (& the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Life... from Nothing, live 02/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, and live piano from Gary)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On Ashes from the Water of Life press chapbook “Unzip the Body Bag” live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon Power Shot)

Only For One Night

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the first third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 with this writing

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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lfrom the 6" x 9" ISBN# book “40”s, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 02/22/11 open mic at the Café Chicago, & her poetry in 2011 books, including this poem

Opinions

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Opinions (C, read from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Opinions (S, read from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

Our Music

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live at the Café in Chicago 04/27/10

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of this poem, her reading a Charlie Newman poem & the intro to the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 04/27/10

Out of my Element

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the first third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 with this writing

out of the space program

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of Wayne Allen Jones reading this 11/02/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Painted Buddhas

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of the middle third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside that contains this writing

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read live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Painted Buddhas in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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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

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w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

Passed Away

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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Pinchy

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.

prefer things soft

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of the middle third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside that contains this writing

Raped With Words

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live 11/16/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro from the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 11/02/10 and this poem

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Read by John Yotko, 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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(read by John Yotko) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

Rushed

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live at the Café in Chicago 10/05/10

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“So”

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live 09/18/10 at Vittorio Carli’s Pilsen open mic at Cafe Mestizo

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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2:22, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

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read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

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.

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Somewhere Else

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live 10/26/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Spit Me Out

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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Swallowing Sand & Pebbles

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Teaching Our Children

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read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 12/07/10 with this poem and other poems read live

Ten and Ten, Plus Two

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live 07/11/10 at Beach Poets in the show Death ‘'n’ Rebirth

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of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show with this poem, at Beach Poets, from archive.org

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

the greatest spectacle in racing

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/01/10

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Thinking. I hate that.

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read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That.

three minutes for three dollars

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live at the Café in Chicago 04/20/10

You Cannot Burn Me

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live at the Café in Chicago 10/05/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 10/05/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poems “You Cannot Burn Me” & “Rushed”

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from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach

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video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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