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Naivety
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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)
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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago
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need (haiku, on twitter)
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the 9/27/12 6 Second Poems chapbook
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Needy Person
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live, the Cafe 09/09/08, Chicago
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Neon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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the 2012 poetry bomb chapbook
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the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook
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the Elements of Astronomy.
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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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Neptunium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Never Did The Same
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(1:07, at Cafe Netherworld in Denver, CO 06/15/07)
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(:47) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe
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(13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe
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Neodymium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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New

newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species
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New To Chicago
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[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

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1:22, at the First Chicago bldg. 07/14/07
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from the book Urbanation release show
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live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99
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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10
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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/14/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak
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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)
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new to chicago (2015 baseball edition)
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the Bases Loaded 4/26/15 chapbook
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New Vacuum Cleaner
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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08
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06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)
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Nickel (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading
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nightmares (haiku, on twitter)
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Niobium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Nitrium (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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the Resistance is Futile 3/20/15 chapbook
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“Imzadi”, w/ poems read on 3/21/15
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Nitrogen (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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the 11/21/12 Periodic Poetry chapbook
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the 11/21/12 “Life, Death & the Universe” chapbook
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“Life, Death & the Universe” chapbook
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Nitrogen in my veins (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)
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of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series back and forth with poems by Buddha309 in Science vs. Mysticism, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)
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the 5/10/13 Science vs. Mysticism Janet Kuypers chapbook
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Nights
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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago
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Ninety Percent Sure (Dreams 07/06/06 One)
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live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/29/09


Nobelium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook
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toward the end of the Periodic Table.
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No Compunction
This poem was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release sea drift for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
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No Consequences
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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08
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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, performed live at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11
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no Heat in my Heart
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live at the Café in Chicago 05/11/10
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No Longer Pity You
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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08


no one will
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(1:00) live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago
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No Place
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No Regrets Together
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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1)
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the Messenger
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the Messenger
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Not For Me Yet
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Not Getting Better
2012 translation of Not Getting Better - in Slovak: “Stále mi nie je lepšie”
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no thank you
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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago


no there isn’t
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Nothing Colorful In My Sight
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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe
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Nothing Really Matters

Now I’m Strong

Now I’m Strong - in Filipino
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Now That You Got Me (from the “this poem is about...” series)
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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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Now You’re Nothing To Me
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read live at the Cafe 07/08/08

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Now You’re Nothing to Me” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading
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Number 136
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art show Stop. Look. Listen.
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(4:21) studio session etc. book reading
for audio CD 08/14/07
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