Had A Point
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Hafnium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
  Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Hafnium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (C) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Hafnium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (S) |
Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994
Published in Deep South (1996, New Zealand)
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This is on the collection CD The Final. Get a copy for only $6.22. |
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Listen: (3:26) to this recording from Fusion |
  Watch this YouTube video live, 18 Years of Beach Poets 08/31/08, Chicago |
 Watch this YouTube video (3:00) live 09/18/10 at Vittorio Carli’s Pilsen open mic at Cafe Mestizo |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon Power Shot)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon fs200)
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hand-grenades, chainsaws and fireworks (oh my)
Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
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Watch the YouTube video :38, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08 |
Hanging For Justice
Happy New Year, Janet
Watch this YouTube video live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago |
or watch this in part of the YouTube show live at New Year’s Unplugged |
Hard as a Rock
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/24/09 |
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Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
Watch this YouTube video (studio session 03/16/09) |
hard enough anymore
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Hard Enough Anymore live 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Hard Enough Anymore live 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic a3/12/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — including reading this poem |
Hard Of Hearing
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem hard of hearing 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem hard of hearing 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera; with a Threshold filter). |
Harder To Burn
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something |
Watch this YouTube video live at Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus, w/ Buddha 309) in Chicago 05/03/10 |
Hartman and Saper, Corp.
Hasn’t Happened Yet
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis w/ C Ra McGuirt |
Hassium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Hassium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (C) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Hassium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (S) |
have a friend in me
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from the poems about mom - have a party
This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in the Starite Cafe
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 Watch the YouTube video 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 ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam |
Have No Backbone
See this published poem at SplinterSwerve
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Watch this YouTube video (1:25) studio session 11/13/07
The above studio video could also be seen as a magazine-published video at You can also see the above video at noolmusic |
Watch the YouTube video (1:39) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07 |
Have To Ask
Have To Ask - in Bengali
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Have You Ever Had
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Watch this YouTube video live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago |
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or watch this in part of the YouTube show live at New Year’s Unplugged |
heaviness (haiku, on twitter)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem heaviness 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 heaviness from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery |
See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku heaviness from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16. |
Helium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12 |
Watch this Youtube video of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12 |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry |
Helium Addiction (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) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera) |
See YouTube video 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#&047; Threshold filter), 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 Sony 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 Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodica table poem |
See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (w/ a Canon Power Shot). |
See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (this video filmed w/ a Sony camera). |
he makes me think about these things
Watch this YouTube video 02/10/08, the day it was written |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poem he makes me think about these things (Canon fs200) live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the mid-August 2009 v199.9 issue of cc&d magazine |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poem he makes me think about these things (Canon Power Shot) live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the mid-August 2009 v199.9 issue of cc&d magazine |
He Told Me His Dreams one
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09 |
See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09 |
  Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive |
Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive |
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
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He Told Me His Dreams two
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
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He Told Me His Dreams three
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09 |
He Told Me His Dreams four
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
Watch this YouTube video (1:10) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04 |
Watch this YouTube video (1:11) the TV screen broadcast from the live Chicago show Dreams 02/03/04 |
He Told Me His Dreams five
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen to a live track off the CD and performance art show Dreams (02/03/04) |
Watch this YouTube video (:44) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04 |
Watch this YouTube video (1:11) the TV screen broadcast from the live Chicago show Dreams 02/03/04 |
See YouTube video
05/24/11 at the Café in Chicago (read from the ISBN# book the Window)
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See YouTube video of the intro to the 05/24/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2
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See YouTube video (9:35) of Kuypers 05/24/11 at the Café reading her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2
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He Told Me His Dreams six
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video live at Mercury Cafe in Chicago 08/28/09 |
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See YouTube video
05/24/11 at the Café in Chicago (read from the ISBN# book the Window)
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See YouTube video of the intro to the 05/24/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2
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See YouTube video (9:35) of Kuypers 05/24/11 at the Café reading her poems He Told Me His Dreams 5, He Told Me His Dreams 6, She Told Me Her Dreams 3, Ice Cream, Games, Vittorio Carli reading her poem Christmas Eve, and Kuypers reading her poem Private Lives 2
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He Told Me His Dreams seven
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/01/09 |
He Told Me His Dreams eight
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe |
He Told Me His Dreams nine
The full series of He Told Me His Dreams poems is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen to a live track off the CD and performance art show Dreams (02/03/04) |
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
Watch this YouTube video (1:52) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04 |
Watch this YouTube video (1:11) the TV screen broadcast from the live Chicago show Dreams 02/03/04 |
He’s An Escapist (in haiku form)
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Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09 |
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Watch this YouTube video (:23, at the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO 06/15/07) |
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He’s Gone
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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 |
Headache
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Listen to this with the Second Axing |
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Listen live to the 2nd Axing
at the open mic Sing Your Life |
Listen to this performed liveat the show Not Mute |
Watch the YouTube video (:49, 05/05/07) |
Watch the video (3:46) 3 poems read live (05/19/07) at the Jared Smith book release: Too Far, Headache & the Burning.from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08 |
| Listen to this performed live at The Cafe 11/04/03 (1:04, 1 meg) |
Helping Men in Public Places
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Listen to music from the CD Tick Tock (with music by 5D/5D) |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Watch this YouTube video live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago |
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or watch this in part of the YouTube show live at New Year’s Unplugged |
Her Blood Is Evaporating
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Watch this YouTube video live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08 |
Here is Me
here is me - in Korean
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See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/04/11 |
Watch this YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago |
Here It Goes Again
Watch the YouTube video from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago |
 Or see the full “Stop” show including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive |
Watch the YouTube video of a 10 minute portion of the 09/10/02 poetry show Stop, includeing this piece |
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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 or live tracks from the CD & show How Do I Get There? |
Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
see the entire performance of How Do I Get There? 02/15/05 in Chicago live, via the Internet Archive |
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Here’s Your Chance
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Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
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Listen: (3:21) to this recording from Fusion |
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Hiding Vices
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Watch the High Roller
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]
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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) |
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Listen to studio or live tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?
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Watch this YouTube video (:57, 06/12/07, live at the Cafe) |
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Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
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see the entire performance of How Do I Get There? 02/15/05 in Chicago live, via the Internet Archive |
from the plush horse stories - His Mom’s Car
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
 Watch this YouTube video (1:11) read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video 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. |
Watch the YouTube video 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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Watch the YouTube video 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 |
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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 |
L (2:25, 07/03/11)Or watch the YouTube video
(Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking) 07/05/11 at the Café
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See feature-length YouTube video 07/05/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry @ Chicago’s the Café |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 07/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with poems and her Close Cover Before Striking poems |
hit joey
hold (haiku, on twitter)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku hold live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku hold 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 |
See Vine video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers’ haiku hold live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon) |
See Vine video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers’ haiku hold live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Sony) |
See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku hold @ the Blue Sky’ls sign 6/8/15 (from looking for a worthy adversary — and looking for a worthy adversary (an extreme sestina variation)), for John (Motorola) |
See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku hold, from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt 2015 Jul.-Dec. issues book the Intersection (11/28/15, Samsung, from Austin, Texas) |
holding hands (expanded, extreme sestina variation)
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem holding hands in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Holding Hands live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Holding Hands live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
See YouTube video 1/22/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems One who Has Too Much & or my happiness, or my life, and Holding Hands (from her book Let me see you Stripped) at the Round Rock Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Nikon CoolPix S7000). |
See YouTube video 1/22/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems One who Has Too Much & or my happiness, or my life, and Holding Hands (from her book Let me see you Stripped) at the Round Rock Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Canon Power Shot camera). |
Holding My Hand
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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Watch this YouTube video 2:42, with 2 poems read: Holding My Hand & The Burning (live @ the Cafe) |
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Watch the YouTube video (1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07 |
| Listen from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack off the CD an american portrait |
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Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09 |
Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09 |
Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (available in a 2 CD set)> |
See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand |
See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 4 of her poems 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago, Knelt and Cried, Eleven and Two, plus Eight, Timing is Everything and Holding My Hand |
Holding My Skin Together
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
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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 |
Experimental Poetry: hole in the heart
Holmium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Holmium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Holmium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at MOST of her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony) |
Hollow for so Long Already (from the “this poem is about...” series)
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from Cousin BonesÙ “At the Plasma Clinic”) from the Samsung |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the Kodak) |
Hope And Taxes
How Could I Not Love You?
this poem is also availavle online at White Crow
Watch the YouTube video of this poem 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera |
 See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera |
How do I Explain It - dedicated to John Yotko
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
Watch this YouTube video live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99 |
Watch this YouTube video read live on her wedding day (May 7, 2000) |
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Watch the YouTube video from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago |
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Or see the full “Stop” show including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive |
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Listen live from the 03/03/02 CD & the Chicago 09/10/02 performance art show Stop. Look. Listen. |
Watch this YouTube video (6:31) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07 |
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Listen: (5:51) to this recording from Fusion |
| Listen from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack off the CD an american portrait |
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Watch the YouTube video live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets |
Watch the full video of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show at Beach Poets, from archive.org |
download the free chapbook Death ‘n’ Rebirthwith all of the writing in the live show |
How Do I Get There?
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Listen to any part of the CD and performance art show How Do I Get There? |
How He Failed
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Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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Watch the YouTube video o Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10 |
or See the YouTube video of the first third of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 05/21/10 with this writing |
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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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See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem How He Failed from Scars Publications’ Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/26/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Droid Maxx) |
How I Imagine You
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 |
| edit this poem in wandering words... rearrange the words... or make a new poem either in Flash or in Java (Windows only)! |
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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) |
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Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD:
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Watch this YouTube video live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10 |
How many times I’ve done it
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Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
Watch this YouTube video Read in studio live 03/23/09
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How Much For Your Poem
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
Get this on Poetic Pieces -a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!). |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago 05/18/09 |
How People Interpret My Words
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Watch this YouTube video (studio session 03/16/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09 |
Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago. This video is w/ the Internet Archive |
Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at the Internet Archive |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing Keeping a Record of Going Too Far, Made Any Difference (to John’s song), and How People Interpret My Words 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing Keeping a Record of Going Too Far, Made Any Difference (to John’s song), and How People Interpret My Words 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon). |
How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
How to do the Impossible
Watch this YouTube video live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09 |
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How to Please a Woman
Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2) |
See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women and as an added bonus... (you’ll get a kick out of this, this is not a joke) also see this video at HOW TO GET GIRLS 
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Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women |
See Kuypers’ full show video
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) |
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/21/11 live at the Café |
See feature-length YouTube video of Kuypers reading her prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” and her poem “How to Please a Woman” |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 06/21/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem |
how to scramble an egg
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem How to Scramble an Egg live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem How to Scramble an Egg live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
how to write a poem
how women look in men’s clothing
Human Construct of Time
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
Watch this YouTube video read live 11/01/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago |
See this YouTube video of Kuypers reading this and other new poems & poetry from 11/11 cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines, the day they were released |
Watch this YouTube video of take 1 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking |
Watch this YouTube video of take 2 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking |
Watch this YouTube video of take 3 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking |
Watch this YouTube video of take 4 (in studio) read 12/31/11, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking |
Watch this YouTube video live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung) |
Watch this YouTube video live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Sony) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Human Construct of Time in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing |
Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Human Construct of Time from v121 of Down in the Dirt magazine (titled “I Pull the Strings”) live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Human Construct of Time from v121 of Down in the Dirt magazine (titled “I Pull the Strings”) live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C, Threshold) |
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading the beginning of human construct of time from Scars Publications’ “need to know” 2015 literary date book 12/31/15 in Austin Texas. |
humans (haiku, on twitter)
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Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku humans live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon) |
See YouTube video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon) |
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Download this poem in the free chapbook “6 Second Poems”, w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio |
See Vine video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers’ haiku humans live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon, flipped) |
See Vine video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers’ haiku humans live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon) |
Hunt the Game (twitter-length poem)
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Hunt the Game 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 Hunt the Game 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! |
Experimental Poetry: hurt/cold
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hurt less then
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 05/11/10 |
Watch this YouTube video 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 |
Hydrogen (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
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Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems. |
Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12 |
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Watch this Youtube video of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12 |
Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live in Chicao at “Poetry Love Letters” 11/9/12 (Sony) |
Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live in Chicago at “Poetry Love Letters” 11/9/12 (phone camera) |
Hydrogen Cyanide (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
as well as Poetry Life & Times Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 (through paper.li)
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Hydrogen Cyanide live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table bonus poem Hydrogen Cyanide live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poem Hydrogen Cyanide live in Chicago 10/31/13 at her Poe-Pourri mini-feature (w/ an older film age filter) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Hydrogen Cyanide live in Chicago 10/31/13 at her Poe-Pourri mini-feature |
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See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (w/ a Canon Power Shot). |
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See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (this video filmed w/ a Sony camera). |
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