Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
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a letter
 Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes: 
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  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose a Letter 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 a Letter live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera) |
Age
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  Watch the YouTube video Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
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Listen  through the DMJ Art Connection,off the CD Indian Flux |
Watch this YouTube video (4:27) recorded of dancing Boobies (birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos Islands) |
Watch this YouTube video @ the Pacific Ocean 12/07 @ the Galapagos Islands |
Watch this YouTube videolive at the Café in Chicago 02/25/10 |
Watch the YouTube video of this reading with the intro & other writings, live 05/25/10 at the Café |
Chain Smoking
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Clay
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Listen Live at the Café, now available in a 3 CD set |
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See YouTube video (3:10) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
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See YouTube video (4:36) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Clay in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine live 9/18/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Clay in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine live 9/18/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (S) |
doctor
[ doctor - in German ]
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Doctor 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 Doctor from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
Done This Before
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Watch this YouTube video or listen from iTunes: live 10/21/03 in her show the Other Side at theCafé in Chicago
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Or watch the complete video of The Other Side live, including this poem in Chicago 10/21/03 (3:01) |
Click the cover to see this writing, or order this writing as it appears in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Done This Before in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine live 9/18/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (C) |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Done This Before in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine live 9/18/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (S) |
Driving By His House
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Order this writing in the book (woman.)
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 Watch the YouTube video (2:29) 02/26/08 Live at the Café in Chicago The above video is also on nool music |
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) |
Order this track off the CD The Stories of Women (which is now available for sale through amazon.com) |
Or watch the YouTube video Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11 |
See the YouTube full video of My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2) at Trunk Fest, live 05/28/11, w/ this writing |
 
Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Driving By His House from the collection book Exaro Versus live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Samsung) |
Dysfunctional
 Watch this YouTube video live at Regina’s Place 12/18/09 |
Fireflies
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1)  This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
having children one day
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 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her prose Having Children One Day live 7/30/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Having Children One Day live 7/30/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Edge Detection) |
How a woman falls in love
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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her prose How a woman falls in love live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her prose How a woman falls in love 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) |
nonfiction
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Seven Miles
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Listen: (3:02) to this recording from Fusion |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Seven Miles live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (from a Canon fs200 camera) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Seven Miles live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot) |
soybeans
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ prose Soybeans (Cfs) from the Down in the Dirt magazine 2015 issue collection book Adrift, the issues and chapbooks edition live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ prose Soybeans (Cps) from the Down in the Dirt magazine 2015 issue collection book Adrift, the issues and chapbooks edition live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago |
why i’d marry you
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Why I’d Marry You 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 Why I’d Marry You 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 Why I’d Marry You 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 |
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