Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

J’reviens

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

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jabbed into an open nerve

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her improv of Jabbed into an Open Nerve live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem jabbed into an open nerve 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)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem jabbed into an open nerve from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cfs200)

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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.

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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.

from the new orleans poems -
Jackson Square/Bourbon Street
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
on a page of 3 poems about New Orleans

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to the CD recording of this piece
from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears

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(:25) Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

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of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

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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

Experimental Poetry: James

Janet Being Alone
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Japanese Television

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to this from the CD release
from the first performance art show
(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

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of the first 4 poems performed (3:58) at the Red Lion Pub 08/14/07 at the live show Seeing Things Differently

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Listen

to the CD recording from the
CD Rough Mixes, bscars.tvy Pointless Orchestra

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read live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, performing this poem and more with video & music from musicians around the world

Watch this Complete feature video of the FULL SHOW of most everyone live 10/04/11 at the Café for Chicago Calling, including Kuypers performing poetry with music & video

the poetry collection audio CD “Torture & Triumph”

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Japanese Television 2004

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poetic pieces: poetry & editorials CD by Janet Kuypers

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(1:08) in Denver, CO 06/17/07

...or watch this above video at mefeedia.

Watch this YouTube video
(1:34) from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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to the CD recording from the 09/20/05
performance art show SIN (Scars Internet News)

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of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive

a dedication piece to David Jarvie - jarv
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Jaw Gets Sore (twitter-length poem)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/31/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, inlcuding this poem

Jet Puffed

jihadists and astrophysics

See YouTube video of the poem jihadists and astrophysics, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jihadists and Astrophysics live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jihadists and Astrophysics live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot).

“Jimbo” (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “Jimbo” live in Nashville (to people who knew Jimbo) 10/18/14 (iPhone camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “Jimbo” live in Nashville (to people who knew Jimbo) 10/18/14 (Posterized)

job (haiku, on twitter)

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

See YouTube video (C) of Bob Rashkow reading the Janet Kuypers haiku job 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 job (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 job (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku job from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking (New Orleans 5/29/16, 1).

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku job from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking (New Orleans 5/29/16, 2).

jobless (haiku, on twitter)

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

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

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

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

from the poems about mom - joe putz-a-vucki

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from the 2011 6" x 9" ISBN# book Sexism and Other Stories, 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

jog hurt

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jog Hurt 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jog Hurt 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

John

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live at Regina’s Place 12/18/09

the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order
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John (edited)

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

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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem John (edited) at the open mike 8/4/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem John (edited) at the open mike 8/4/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

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(C) of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems (“Sheri”, “Where To Go” & “John (edited)”) 8/4/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

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(S) of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems (“Sheri”, “Where To Go” & “John (edited)”) 48/4/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

John’s Mind (haiku, on twitter)

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

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John Stories

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SIN (Scars Internet News)

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of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive

Experimental Poetry: Johnathan

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Joy

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Live at Creation Relation (reading poetry live outdoors in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana & Illinois 05/10/09

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

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judge (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku judge live 3/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem judge (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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jumped (haiku, on twitter)

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

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Jumping from the Mausoleum

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of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 new poems brewery, eating slices of white bread and Jumping from the Mausoleum 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize filter)

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

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

junk

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of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Junk at the beginning of the evening live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

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of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Junk at the beginning of the evening live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

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of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Junk in the middle of the evening live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

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of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Junk in the middle of the evening live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Junk from cc&d v256, “Testament” live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon Power Shot)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Junk from cc&d v256, “Testament” live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v256, “Testament” (Including Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Mental Nervous, Michael Lee Johnson’s poem Possum Slim (V2), G. A. Scheinoha’ poem Silver Anniversary, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal’s poem “Atonement”, Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem After Alberta’s Centennial, Eric Burbridge’s poem Minute, and Janet Kuypers’s poem Junk) live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Just Beyond Those Front Doors

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

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of Kuypers’ “Listening In” 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon), with this poem said on the phone

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of Kuypers’ “Listening In” 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony), with this poem said on the phone

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of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

Just Can’t Breathe

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lread 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 Cave In

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Just Cave In live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Just Cave Inlive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Patrick Hurley feature 1/29/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago WITH THIS PIECE

Just Desperation

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems True Happiness in the New Millennium, Just Desperation and Other Souls at the 5 year anniv. of the open mic Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing in Wicket Park, Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems True Happiness in the New Millennium, Just Desperation and Other Souls at the 5 year anni. of the open mic Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing in Wicket Park, Chicago (Cps)

just goes nuts

Just Let Her Rest

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off the CD Singular

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/3/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers’ open mic intro 10/3/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, + poetry (including this piece)

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

Just Making Face After Face

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).

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).

Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean)

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(1:47) live 10/08/10 at the Chicago Public Library (Avalon Branch), with cello from the HAman of South Africa

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lfrom 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

Just Saw a Circa (twitter-length poem)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Just Saw a Circa 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 Just Saw a Circa 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!

just to be on the safe side

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of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 never before read poems One and Six, just to be on the safe side and Trust 5/8/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 never before read poems One and Six, just to be on the safe side and Trust 45/8/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

just you

See YouTube video of the poem just you, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon fs200)

Juxtaposition, or Irony?

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku (w/ bonus words) Juxtaposition, or Irony? during Super Bowl 50 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See a Vine video 2/7/16
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku (with bonus words) Juxtaposition, or Irony? after Super Bowl 50 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems Arsenic and Syphilis & Juxtaposition, or Irony? from memory; then she read her 2 Periodic Table poems Potassium Chloride and Thallium at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 2/26/16 (w/ a Cps).

JY asks (a two haiku twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her 2 haiku poem JY asks in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem JY asks in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem JY asks from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video (Cfs200) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem JY asks from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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