Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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

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performed live (John Yotko back-up vocals and rain stick) at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11

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of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

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of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera)

Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)

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

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read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” (including this piece) live 11/20/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko)

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of ther reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music bt the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko), from the Samsung Camera

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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with guitar and back-up vocals by John Yotko), from the Kodak Camera

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live at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago, with John Yotko on guitar 12/18/11

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live at Café Ballou 1/2/12, with John Yotko on guitar and sampled wind-up clock ticking (from the Samsung)

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of this poem sung (w/ John Y. on guitar) as the 1st performer at the last show at Café Mestizo 4/21/12

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of this poem sung live (John guitar) at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12

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of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12

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of Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music from Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement, off their Album “the Minstral Show” called “Dinner Date”, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with music she created for her 2004 “Dreams” show while she spoke with an alternate male voice, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers singing this poem 7/18/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, with music that the HA!man of South Africa created for her performance of this poem (which was filmed from the Canon)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 7/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus multiple versions of this poem & song

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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/1/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with live piano from Gary, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/1/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with live piano from Gary, from the Sony)

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

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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (to John’s song, with John on guitar and piano from Gary, from the Canon)

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of Kuypers singing this poem 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (to John’s song, with John on guitar and piano from Gary, from the Sony)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece

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of Kuypers performing this poem/song (w/ John’s original song on guitar) 8/29/12 at the singer/songwriter night at the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (from the Canon)

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of Kuypers performing this poem/song (w/ John’s original song on guitar) 8/29/12 at the singer/songwriter night at the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (from the Sony)

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of this poem sung live with a jazz band 5/12/13 at the uptown open mic at the Green Mill in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Made Any Difference” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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

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

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of Janet Kuypers singing her song/poem Made Any Difference in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

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

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of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference poem (w/ John on acoustic guitar) live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon, balance, crop, saturate)

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of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference poem (w/ John on acoustic guitar) live at Ruffled Feathers at Reno in Chicago 12/8/14 (Canon, balance)

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of Kuypers singing this poem Made Any Difference with other originals and covers in her last music show in Chicago 7/22/15 at the Café Gallery (which was filmed from the 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 (Cfs)

Listen as Janet Kuypers reads her poem Made Any Difference with music by Andy Derryberry and art by Davis Michael Jackson

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Nikon CoolPix S7000), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Canon Power Shot), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 1/15/16 at Round Rock’s music open mic at the American Legion (Nikon CoolPix S7000), with covers of George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and their original Made Any Difference.

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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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Leonard Cohen’s Coming Back to You, her poem Made Any Difference, the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her poem Under the Sea (set to Beatles music), & George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise) 2/16/16 at The Uptown Social open mic in Georgetown TX (Cps).

See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 (C) at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s The Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 5/15/16 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s covering Sinead O’Conor’s Black Boys on Mopeds, then with California musician Kevin Marin joining them on harmonica w/ the Smiths’ London, and their song Made Any Difference (Cps camera; cropped & saturated).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing (John on guitar) Sinead O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds and her poem Made Any Difference (cut off) 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park music and poetry event in Austin TX (Cps).

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

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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, w#&047; 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 periodical table poem

Magnum Opus

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

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Make People Think

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Make Things Better

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Make Us Laugh

Makes Me Love To Hate You More
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Making Sense Out Of The Insane
2012 translation of this poem in Slovak: “Dávať zmysel nezmyselnému”

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(1:34) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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(13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe

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

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of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

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Making the Bed

Manganese (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

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of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) that includes this poem

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of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) that includes this poem

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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, starting and ending w/ her poetry mini features, with this poem

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of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Sony)

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of the Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem in her mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon)

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of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Sony) that includes this poem

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of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature “Mega Reading” 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon) that includes this poem

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Mega Reading, w/ Periodic Table poems
read live 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Manganese in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/8/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)

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w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Manic Depressive or Something

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Marilyn Monroe’s sex life

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Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09

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This video is w/ the Internet Archive

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of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

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Marine Rifle Poem

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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

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

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

married

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of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem married at the open mike 7/21/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem married at the open mike 7/21/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers (S) reading 3 poems - INCLUDING THIS POEM - 7/21/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

marry me... whatever you are

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Experimental Poetry: Mask
Mask in Serbian

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Masquerade

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07/13/08, Beach poets
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maybe i love you

Maybe That Is Enough
Maybe That Is Enough - in Gurmukhi
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Maybe You Can
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Mean to Me
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(:43) studio session “etc.” book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07

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

Meant to Be

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06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)

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video (21:47) of Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café

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of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

mechanical soldiers (twitter-length poem)

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read live 12/04/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

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of the intro to the 12/04/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading the poems Broke the Reflection, Gonna Break, and Mechanical Soldiers

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Medication

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

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from the first performance art show
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the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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See YouTube video 1/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Medication from her book Hope Chest in the Attic live at the open mic Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s in Austin (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera)

Meitnerium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize

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of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Meitnerium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (C)

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melted marshmallow (twitter-length poem)

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melted marshmallow 2015

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.

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Poetic Shades of Chocolate

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

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Men Are Dogs Is True

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Mendelevium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Menu Poem

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

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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Me or Him TR>

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live at Mercury Cafe in Chicago 08/28/09

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

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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, Filled 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)

Mercury (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

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Mesmerizing

Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers

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(1:05) from the 2011 6" x 9" ISBN# book Sexism and Other Stories, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

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

middle eastern man in front of me

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem middle eastern man in front of me read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem middle eastern man in front of me read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

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.

Military Intelligence

Military Police

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Military Police (1:53) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control.

Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One

This was also as a studio track

and
as a live track

off the CD
Contact•Conflict•Control

Listen

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

Listen: (2:34)

to this recording from Fusion

mirror (haiku, on twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

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

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

See YouTube video
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 mirror as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mirror as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Sont)

misogyny (haiku, on twitter)

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

Missed the Clicks and Scratches

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Sony video camera

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Canon video camera

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago where she reads this poem, plus her poetry (w/ live piano from Gary) from the Sony video camera

mister (haiku, on twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mister live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mister live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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

Mixing Metaphors
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

Watch this YouTube video

(2:13) studio session “etc.” book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07

Watch the YouTube video

(1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

The above studio video could also be seen at
aol video

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to Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
off the CD an american portrait

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in her feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Edge Detection filter)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing poetry (including this poem) in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Watercolor filter)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
in Homage, w/ Periodic Table poems
read live 4/18/13 at Fizz bar - to a beat - in Chicago

Watch this Youtube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem “Molybdenum” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 before her Tag Team feature reading

Watch this Youtube video
of Janet Kuypers performing Periodic Table poetry to a beat in Nashville TN 5/18/13 before the Tag Team feature reading

Momento Mori

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Edge Detection filter)

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Film Age - Older filter)

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Posterize filter)

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Threshold filter)

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of Kuypers reading All I Can Capture and Momento Mori live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13

Mommy’s Not Leaving

Money Became an Abstract

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

Monotony

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

Moonlight

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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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to the CD recording for
the 06/11/02 performance art show 6/11

Watch the YouTube video
(:39) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

Listen: ( :29)

to this recording from Fusion

(3:43)

NASA Project & Moonlight
from the show 6/11 06/11/02

This film is
from the Internet Archive

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

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

Watch this YouTube video
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

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More Believable That Way

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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)

More Painful to Experience

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

Moros y Christianos

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 Moros y Christianos live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Moros y Christianos live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

from the poems about mom - more than stories
This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in the Starite Cafe

Watch this YouTube video
(1:06) read live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago

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

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

More than we Should Have
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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Listen

Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set

Listen live

to the 2^nd Axing
at the open mic Sing Your Life

Watch this YouTube video

(1:23, at the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO 06/15/07)

Listen

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

Watch the YouTube video
(1:39) Live, the 11/09/07 Hokin Gallery show The Turn of the Word, Chicago

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of The Turn of the Word live

11/09/07 Chicago’s Hokin Gallery 7:54

Listen

from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
off the CD an american portrait

Watch this YouTube video

of the Cutting Room Floor at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

or see the full 10/07/09 Video

at the Palos Park Public Library of the Cutting Room Floor
via the Internet Archive

See the YouTube ½ Show

of the 1st 10 minutes of the show the Cutting Room Floor from YouTube, at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

Watch this YouTube video
of the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John yotko music (on the Canon Camera)

Watch this YouTube video

of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera)

Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Canon Camera)

Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)

Watch the YouTube video
of this poem read 11/21/11 at Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus)

More Whiskey Sours
More Whiskey Sours - in Hungarian

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Watch the YouTube video
of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

See feature-length YouTube
video of many poems (including this one) read 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo from the live feature

morning

Morning Will Be Kind

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

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from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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now available in a 3 CD set

from poems on religion - Most Accurate Metaphors

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to C Ra McGuirt 05/25/10 reading this poem, take 1

Watch this YouTube video

to C Ra McGuirt 05/25/10 reading this poem, take 1

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to C Ra McGuirt 05/25/10 reading this poem, take 1

Listen

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

Listen: (1:35)

to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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

Watch this YouTube video
of part 2 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

Watch the Full Video

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

Watch the Full Video

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

Watch this YouTube video

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

Watch this YouTube video
1:37, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

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

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

Watch this YouTube video

to Michael Hoag read this poem 11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Mother’s Day Flowers Forever

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

Mother’s Day 2012

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem performed live at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12

Watch this YouTube video
of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12

motions on the planet

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’ Rebirth
with all of the writing in the live show

Motorcycle
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

Watch this YouTube video

(:52, on a motorcycle in Chicago 06/10/07)

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Motorcycle (1996 edit)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem Motorcycle (edited) at the open mike 7/21/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem Motorcycle (edited) at the open mike 7/21/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers (C) reading 3 poems - INCLUDING THIS POEM - 7/21/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers (S) reading 3 poems - INCLUDING THIS POEM - 7/21/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

Mulberry Zoo

edit this poem in wandering words...
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See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Airport Phonecall” reading (which includes this poem) 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Airport Phonecall” reading (which includes this poem) 9/24/24 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/24/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

much (haiku, on twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

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

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers’
haiku much from Scars’ Down in the Dirt issues book the Intersection (Samsung 11/20/15)

from the poems about mom - musical
This poem is published with a series of poem about Kuypers’ mother
in the Starite Cafe

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

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

edit this poem in wandering words...
rearrange the words... or make a new poem
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Watch this YouTube video
(:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)

Watch the YouTube video
of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

See feature-length YouTube
video of many poems (including this one) read 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo from the live feature

My Attempted Death

Watch this YouTube video
Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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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

Watch this YouTube video
live at the end of the Cousin Bones finalé song 11/06/10 at Lake Villa’s Swing State

My brain was

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

My Blood

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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)

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

edit this poem in wandering words...
rearrange the words... or make a new poem
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Watch this YouTube video
(:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)

My Dead Daughter
also see this poem at Ygdrasil
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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“Oh.” audio CD
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to the DMJ Art Connection,
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of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

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from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show

Listen

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My Father, Shooting an Animal
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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(1:57) 06/15/07, at Buffalo Bill’s Grave at Lookout Mountain in Golden, CO

(1:54)
06/15/07, at Buffalo Bill’s Grave at Lookout Mountain in Golden, CO

This film is from
the Internet Archive

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read from the book the Window live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

My First Time

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written & read 06/07/11, live at the Café

See feature-length YouTube

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of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

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

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

My Future Job Options

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live at the Café in Chicago 02/09/10

Watch this YouTube video
1:24, of just the poem)
live at the Café in Chicago 05/04/10

Watch this YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers poem My Future Job Options & the Irene Ferraro poem White Moth & the Dina Stuart poem the Mess, at the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 05/04/10

Watch this YouTube video
1:11, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

Watch this YouTube video

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

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

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

See YouTube video

05/03/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books Unknown and Sexism and Other Stories and in cc&d mag v220, the 05/11 issue)

Watch this YouTube video
to the intro to the 05/03/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems one by one, the beech trees fell, Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale, and My Future Job Options 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).

My Height Any Longer

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My Kind of Town

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video
of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Kind of Town 8/19/13 at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
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 Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon, Film Age - Older)

See YouTube video
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 Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Samsung)

My Life Changing
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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(:49) studio session “etc.” book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07

Watch the YouTube video

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

my love for you will stay the same - a song

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 05/21/10

or See the YouTube video
of the finale of the Chicago feature Twitter Inside 05/21/10 with this writing

Watch this YouTube video
(with the “extract” filter)
live at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (Chicago) 05/21/10 in the JK feature “Twitter Inside”

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(with the “find edges” filter)
live at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (Chicago) 05/21/10 in the JK feature “Twitter Inside”

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(with an metallic filter)
live at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (Chicago) 05/21/10 in the JK feature “Twitter Inside”

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live at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (Chicago) 05/21/10 in the JK feature “Twitter Inside”

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live at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (Chicago) 05/21/10 in the JK feature “Twitter Inside”

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live at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (Chicago) 05/21/10 in the JK feature “Twitter Inside”

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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

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

Watch the Full Video

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

Watch the Full Video

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

Watch the YouTube video
(4:06) live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10

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’ Rebirth
with all of the writing in the live show

See a Facebook video clip
of the song my love for you will stay the same, performed by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 (posted by the host of Beach Poets, Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels)

Listen

to this original song from Mom’s Favorite Vase off the CD The Demo Tapes, which is available for sale through iTunes.

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube

video w/ John on guitar singing Peter Gabriel’s song Washing of the Water, then her Mom’s Favorite Vase song my love for you will stay the same, then Ani DeFranco’s song I am Not a Pretty Girl at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s open mic 2/28/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube

See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar) performing 2 songs 6/10/16 at Georgetown’s PoetryPlus, covering Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Life by the Drop, The The’s Love is Stronger than Death, and her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same (Canon Power Shot).

My Lunchtime Dream

My Memorials To You

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

from the poems about mom -
My MotherMy MotherMy Mother
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Order this iTunes track:

in different styles:

from different readings:

from the Chaotic Collection
...Or get the full CD:

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from Chaots in Motion
(a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster

CD:

Listen

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

Listen

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

Watch the YouTube video

(2:22) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

...or watch this above YouTube video at
Air Travel Horror Stories.

Watch this YouTube video

of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

Or watch the FULL video
from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show

Listen

to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.

Listen

to this collaboration
of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j

the poetry 5 CD set the CHAOTIC COLLECTION

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from the Close Cover Before Striking book reading, or order this iTunes track:

from the Slate & Marrow book reading, on Chaotic Radio’s 5 CD set the Chaotic Collection

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

My New Grocery List (twitter-length poem)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My New Grocery List live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C)

See YouTube video
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 poem My New Grocery List as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200, video flipped and saturated)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem My New Grocery List as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)

my room

My Second Marriage
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Listen live

from the 03/03/02 CD
& the Chicago 09/10/02 performance
art show Stop. Look. Listen.

Listen: (3:40)

to this recording from the poetry (with eclectic jazz music from Madison WI) CD set Fusion

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C, edge d.)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Second Marriage from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery, (S, Threshold)

My Turn
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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live, the Cafe 09/09/08, Chicago

My Wishes Come True

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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