Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
are sorted alphabetically.
a Life Goes By
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  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose a Life Goes By from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose a Life Goes By from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
A Microcosm of Society
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  Watch this YouTube video PART 1 of the story 10/19/10, live at the Café in Chicago |
 Watch this YouTube video PART 2 of the story 10/19/10, live at the Café in Chicago |
or see the FULL story video
live at the Café in Chicago through Poetry Visualized, performed 10/19/10
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Christmas at the Old House
 Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger) |
Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Kdak Camera |
Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Samsung Camera |
Watch this YouTube video of ther reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music by the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing |
Watch this YouTube video the majority (all but th last 2 poems) of her reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (from the Kodak camera) including this writing |
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daisy
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Daisy from the book Bare Minimum live 1/15/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Daisy from the book Bare Minimum live 1/15/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
See a facebook video of Janet Kuypers’ prose Daisy in the book Bare Minimum live at the Café Gallery poetry open mic 1/15/14 live in Chicago (Sony) at Gallery Cabaret |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Patrick Hurley feature 1/15/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, with this prose |
dandelions for a passing stranger
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 See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her prose dandelions for a passing stranger live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her prose dandelions for a passing stranger live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of 2 prose pieces by Janet Kuypers: dandelions for a passing stranger and How a woman falls in love live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of 2 prose pieces by Janet Kuypers: dandelions for a passing stranger and How a woman falls in love live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
having company over
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Having Company Over live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Having Company Over live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing |
how to cry
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose how to cry live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose how to cry live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon PowerShot camera) |
Knowledge
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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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 |
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 videowith 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) |
Park Bench
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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salesman
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
salesman [translated from Spanish, back to English]
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Salesman from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Salesman from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
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Scars
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch the YouTube video (2:58) live 4/14/09 at the Café |
Listen  to the DMJ Art Connection
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Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this prose “Scars” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after her Tag Team feature reading |
Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading “Scars” and “Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after the Tag Team feature reading |
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs) |
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cps) |
See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
the Apartment
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| Listen (2:44) (mixed 04/23/08) to this poetry, combined with music from the HA!Man of South Africa creating “from Chicago the South Africa” |
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Listen Live at the Café, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion |
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Listen: (2:54) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10 |
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Watch this YouTube video of part one of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of pt. 1 of the “40” show from 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. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Apartment from the collection book Exaro Versus live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Samsung) |
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