Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem fader, his mädchen and the Führer from the cc&d book Idols live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem fader, his mädchen and the Führer from the cc&d book Idols live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

faith (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku faith in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku faith as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic Jaks Tap in Chicago (Canon, negative w and saturated filters)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku faith as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic Jaks Tap in Chicago (C)

Faith Comes Only

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 08/18/09

Fake Face

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of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

falling (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku falling in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS HAIKU

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d mag, titled Beyond the Gates live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d magazine, titled Beyond the Gates live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin (Sony), first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin (Cps), first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman).

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

Falling From the Sky

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(:56) in Longmont, Colorado 06/16/0 before jumpeding out of an airplane

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(2:31) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/16/08

Watch the YouTube video
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

false suicide

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live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach Poets
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(25:19) from the Internet Archive

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/08/10

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of the Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 09/08/07,after the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/08/10

Fantastic Car Crash

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

Listen

to The DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

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to the CD recording
of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange

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to a low-res clip from the CD

of the CD studio recording for the 6/11/02 performance art show 6/11

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from the Internet Archive

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live at 6/11 in Chicago 6/11/02

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Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set
bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2004

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4:09, performed live for a CD recording, parts of the song What We Need In Life before the poem Fantastic Car Crash 05/19/07

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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

download the free chapbook Death ‘n’ Rebirth
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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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)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem with Esteban Colon 8/1/12 at Chicago ’s the Café Gallery (Gary piano, on Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem with Esteban Colon 8/1/12 at Chicago ’s the Café Gallery (Gary piano, on Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 8/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her performing this poem

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performng poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Kuypers performng poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of 4 mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where Janet Kuypers reads this poem in a “last minute” mini-feature

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading a set of poems (“the Burning” and 3 near-death accident-related poems) live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fantastic Car Crash 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.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 8/2/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Canon, posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference (to John Y.’s music), then reading her poems Fantastic Car Crash and Too Far 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fantastic Car Crash 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing poetry and song (with John on guitar) 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with her song What We Need In Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside the song),
X-rays and broken hearts, & the Burning.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 4 songs (with John on guitar) 1/29/16 (C) at the Round Rock music open mic at the American Legion, covering Morrissey’s There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends, Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking, the Chruch’s Under the Milky Way, & singing her MFV song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 4 songs (with John on guitar) 1/29/16 (N) at the Round Rock music open mic at the American Legion, covering Morrissey’s There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends, Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking, the Chruch’s Under the Milky Way, & singing her MFV song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems from memory, Too Far, Fantastic Car Crash, and Under the Sea 6/26/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

Farmer
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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to the DMJ Art Connection,
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The DMJ Art Connection
Disc One

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to the CD recording
of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange

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off the 3 CD set
Live at the Café,
now available in a 3 CD set
bonus track from Molly Malone’s

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to this recording from Fusion

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live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church
(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago

(23:58) from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

fast food makes finger food

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read before the Kevin Michael Wehle poem Home live at the Cafe 11/10/09

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem fast food makes finger food 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem fast food makes finger food 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (edge detection)

Father’s Tears
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

feel (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku feel live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku feel live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku feel from cc&d’s Scars Publications book a Perfect Solitude live outdoors in New Orleans 5/29/16.

Order this book in the Janet Kuypers haiku collection book 100 Haikus, or in the 2014 collection book Partial Nudity.

Feel Comfortable (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music & video from the HA!man of South Afric / Francois Le Roux) from Samsung

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony cam)

Feel So Much
2012 translation of Feel So Much - in Slovak: Cítim to‎ko..
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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recovery poems “Changing Garments”, “Supposed To Be Done”, “Making Sense Out Of The Insane”, “Someone Give Me the Answers”, & “Feel So Much” read live at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02

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(:53, 06/15/07)

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Fermium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (Sony, Posterize filter) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S, Watercolor filter) at her interview & reading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Threshold filter)

Fifteen Gun-Toting Tweets

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/22/09

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Fifteen Minutes

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of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 8/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

Fighting I Can Do

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(1:54) 07/17/07, Living in a Big World

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(1:53) 07/17/07, Living in a Big World

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filed under fiction (twitter-length poem)

mädchend with Such Panic

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live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago

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live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago
with film from the Internet Archive

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05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)

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of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, mädchend with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)

film the cheerleaders

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading poetry (including this poem) at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Final Rally

final rally 2015 edit

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of final rally (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem Final Rally, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200), of 14 poem readings about her mother, WITH THIS PIECE

See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 14 poem reading about her mother, INCLUDING THIS PIECE

Download this poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

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

Find Myself

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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This film is from the Internet Archive

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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

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

Finest Feeling

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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

Fire Alarms
fire alarms - in Sign Language

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(a poem mentioning fire, read in front of a fire 07/12/09)

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Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09

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(camera #1, 07/06/09)
from the Internet Archive

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of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive

Listen

to this radio recording
from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/04/11

First

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

fit (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of poet Charlie Newman reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku fit live 6/2/14 in Chicago

See YouTube video (C) of Charlie Newman on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fit in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Charlie Newman on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fit in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (C, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem fit (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem fit (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

Fit the Bill

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/29/09

Fitting the Mold

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poetic pieces: poetry & editorials CD by Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fitting the Mold 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fitting the Mold 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon PS).

Fit Together Like That (twitter-length poem)

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Flerovium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Flerovium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Flerovium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Hue Cycle)

Flexible Ethics

Floating Away with the Tide

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 08/18/09

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)

Flooded War Memories

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(3:49) live, WordSlingers feature, WLUW Chicago radio 88.9FM

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

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(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

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(recorded with a metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

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(with the Pastel Sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

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(with the Posterize filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

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of the introduction at the Café in Chicago, & the poem Flooded War Memorieslive 03/16/10; at the Café; in Chicago

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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

floor (haiku, on twitter)

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku floor as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon camera)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku floor as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Sony camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book The Hive as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

Flowers on the Tables

Fluorine (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

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of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

Flying to China (twitter-length poem)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Flying to China live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Flying to China live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 9/4/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this poem

fog (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video (C) of Tom Roby reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fog in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Tom Roby reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fog in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fog in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

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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of part 2 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café w/ this piece 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.

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)

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

force (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku force live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku force live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem force (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

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for C Ra

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live at the Café in Chicago 05/25/10

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of this reading with the intro & other writings, live 05/25/10 at the Café

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 live at the Café

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video 06/28/11 of her performing her poetry & live Janet Kuypers & John Yotko songs @ Chicago’s the Café

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of the intro to the 06/28/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem

Foreign Farmer (twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Foreign Farmer 8/19/13 at Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago (Canon)

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of the Janet Kuypers reading Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting 4 the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon, Film Age - Older)

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of the Janet Kuypers reading poems Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting 4 the Bus 8/19/13 (Samsung)

forever (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C, hard light saturate)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku forever from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking live outdoors in New Orleans 5/29/16.

Order this book in the Janet Kuypers haiku collection book 100 Haikus, or in the 2014 collection book Partial Nudity.

form (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku form live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku form live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize)

for mom

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem for mom live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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For My Car Or My Life

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from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

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from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (5:11)

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from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

Listen

to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

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(5:11) performed live of the beginning of the 3/18/03 live show Death Comes in Threes.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem For My Car Or My Life live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem For My Car Or My Life live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

For Now I’ll Think
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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For The Moment

Experimental Poetry: Forward

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fought (haiku, on twitter)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fought live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku fought as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon camera)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku fought as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Sony camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku found from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

found (haiku, on twitter)

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9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku found as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon camera, video flipped and posterized)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku found as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon camera)

found haiku (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video (C) of Joffre Stewart reading the Janet Kuypers’l found haiku in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Joffre Stewart reading the Janet Kuypers’l found haiku in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Found Haiku from memory in conversation live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 8/27/14 (w/ 2 features!) at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago - where this poem was read

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length found haiku from the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 1/22/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See a Vine video from 2/1/16 of
Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length found haiku from Scars Publications’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

found poem (twitter-length poem about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevic)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem found poem live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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found poem from a New Jersey mom (twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video
of John reading this Janet Kuypers poem from v240 cc&d magazine live 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery poetry open mic Kuypers hosts
in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/16/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem found poem from a New Jersey mom live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem found poem from a New Jersey mom live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

from the plush horse stories - four syllables
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam

Francium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera), including this poem

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem

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of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera), including this poem

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of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodica table poem

free (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video (S) of Jerry Pendergast reading the Janet Kuypers haiku free in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (C) of Jerry Pendergast reading the Janet Kuypers haiku free in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem free (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem free (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

Freedom Just Past The Fence

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(2:21) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

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(2:18) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

Watch this YouTube video
(2:16) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus.

from the new orleans poems - French Quarter
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
on a page of 3 poems about New Orleans

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/22/08

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of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08

Frisbee By The Lake
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

from Hydrogen to Nothing (a bonus poem from the“Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this Youtube video
of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak)

Watch this Youtube video
of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung)

See the Samsung video upside-down,
all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb

Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook
the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 5/29/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) with 2011 Hotel music “playing with blocks and whotnot” by the HA!Man of South Africa

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 5/29/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) with 2011 Hotel music “playing with blocks and whotnot” by the HA!Man of South Africa

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/29/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago - and performing this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 6/26/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 6/26/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/26/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — and reading this poem

From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon

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of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

See feature-length YouTube
video 07/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her feature Astronomy 101 @ Chicago’s the Café

Download this writing in the free 07/19/11 PDF
feature chapbook Astronomy 101

From The Dead
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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This film is from the Internet Archive

From Words to Wars

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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

You can also see this in Part One of the 09/09/08 show Seeing a Psychiatrist at Poetry Visualized

Frozen Together

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/15/09

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live at the Café in Chicago 05/18/10

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read (with additional vocals from U.K. poet Oz Hardwich) 07/26/11, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 07/26/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poem “Frozen Together” (w/ U.K. poet Oz Hardwick vocals)

Watch this YouTube video
of John Yotko reading from the 08/11 issue (v223) of cc&d magazine, live 08/09/11, at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 08/09/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poems, including “Aim Carefully”, John Yotko reading her poem “Frozen Together” and them covering the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds”

from poems on religion - Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation

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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

Watch the YouTube video
of the open mic intro at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10 & the poems More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, and Hiding Vices

Watch the YouTube video
of all of the religion-inspired poems read live at the Café on 03/30/10: More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, Hiding Vices, Gift of Motherhood 1, and Gift of Motherhood 2 (with the “line drawing” filter)

Full Stop

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Imzadi”, w/ poems read on 3/21/15
at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, including this poem.

Fuming in the Morning

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago (Cfs), w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter.

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago (Cps), w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter.

Download these poems in the free chapbook
Poetic Shades of Chocolate

w/ poems read 6/20/15 at 10 Shades of Chocolate show in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fuming in the Morning live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fuming in the Morning live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the poetry open mic 5/13/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago WITH HER READING THIS POEM

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