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Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
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Chicago, West Side (poetry turned to prose)
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(7:17) 03/16/08 live at the WordSlingers radio feature on WLUW Chicago radio (88.9FM)
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Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)
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Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)
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06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)
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not yet rated 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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A (Fe)male Behind Bars
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brushes with greatness
brushes with greatness [in French] [in German]
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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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Ecstasy
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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago
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Gabriel
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read live 08/16/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago
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the same video as above, from 08/16/11, at the Café through archive.org
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video of the intro to the 08/16/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her short story “Gabriel”


Getaway (poetry turned to prose)
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(1:11) read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago
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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That.


Golfing With George Eastmen (poetry turned to prose)

How Are You
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Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09
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Poetry Visualized
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of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera
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of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera
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of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Mini camera
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video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera
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video 08/26/11 of her prose (and this writing) read at the WZRD radio show from the mini cam


I Remember
the poetry 5 CD THE CHAOTIC COLLECTION
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Listen: (26:52) mp3 file to this recording from Fusion
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She read portions of her prose “I Remember” (with a talk about AIDS) live 10/18/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago
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of the intro to the 10/18/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading part of her prose “I Remember


in the Projects
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Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09
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Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09
One Acts full show camera 1
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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” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago


Losing My Best Friend. (poetry turned to prose)
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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
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(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
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(recorded with a metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
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(with the Pastel Sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10
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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)
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Ranting
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of this piece, on the Entropy Project
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Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09
the 2009 Poetry Game Show
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Poetry Visualized
Kuypers videos in Poetry visualized
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of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera
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of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera
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video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Sony camera
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video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera


letter to a troubled friend
letters from war time
paint a suicide picture

Prom ‘97 — or Doing Things Right

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read live 08/23/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago
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seeing things differently
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11/09/10 live, the Café Chicago poetry open mic


stalker - the final pages of fear
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12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women
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(with the last line of the shory cut off on this video) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women
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with 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
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(7:20) read w/ John Yotko live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago
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video video See YouTube video of two mini-features at the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, 1st of her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, then of her short story Stalker


the twin within

Type “A” Person

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the poetry 5 CD THE CHAOTIC COLLECTION
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CD: Janet Kuypers - Chaotic Elements
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from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears
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Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03
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Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)
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(8:03) recorded of dancing Boobies
(birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez,
Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos Islands)
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from the book Urbanation release show
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(5:30) live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10
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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 10/12/10, w/ Kuypers reading her prose “Type ‘A’ Person”
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(4:43) live 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success JK poetry show
Chicago State University
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live JK poetry show w/ gutar 10/15/10 at
Power Networking for Success with
“Type A Person” & “Communication”
Chicago State University











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