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Janet Kuypers’ “2017 Austin Rhythm Fire” 4 poem set 3/20/17 w/ improv jazz band

February 11, 2019July 25, 2017 by Janet Kuypers

On March 20th, 2017, people got together at Southern Hospitality in Austin TX for a show to celebrate the spirit of Lonzell Haggary with an evening of mini-features, all potentially accompanied by an improv jazz band. Janet Kuypers was the final feature performance for the evening, where she performed poems reflecting different themes, including “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”, “Yearning to Break Free”, “Entering the Lake of Fire” and “Only an Observer”.

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Before the show started she also released a chapbook of the poems included int his performance, and this chapbook “2017 Austin Rhythm Fire” is still available online even during her reading, so anyone could (and can) download as the chapbook as a PDF file for free any time.

Poems included in this performance:
“Keeping a Record of Going Too Far”
“Yearning to Break Free”
“Entering the Lake of Fire”
“Only an Observer”

Janet Kuypers “Crazy” 4/23/17 short story feature

February 11, 2019July 6, 2017 by Janet Kuypers

On April 23rd, 2017, people got together at the weekly Austin poetry/comedy/music open mic at Kick Butt: Spoken and Heard, and Janet Kuypers was the feature performance that night, where she chose to perform her short story “Crazy”. (The video playlist below shows not only the 4 videos of the performance in 2017 but also teaser video where Kuypers read portions of the story at open mics around Austin TX to advertise the show, as well as two video sections of the first time she ever performed that show, in Chicago.

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Before the show started she also released a chapbook of the short story, and this chapbook “Crazy” is still available online even during her reading, so anyone could (and can) download as the chapbook as a PDF file for free any time.

Janet Kuypers’ “Erasure Poems” 4/1/17 National Poetry Month feature

June 10, 2017 by Janet Kuypers

Janet in Erasure Poems show Below are writing links, video links and images from a April 1^st 2017 (4/1/17, or 20170401) poetry performance of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through “National Poetry Month” live at the Bahá’í Faith Center in Austin Texas, where she opted to write “Erasure Poems” to perform for the show (Erasure Poems are poems where portions of well-known documents or speeches are “erased” to create a new literary piece). Throughout the show she also payed sounds of a train moving along the tracks (which she recorded for this show performance).

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Before the show started she also released copies of a chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show (in the order they were performed), and all of the pieces from this reading were also released electronically in a “Erasure Poems” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time.

Read the poems from the show:

&“erasure poem: the Meaning of Art” (derived from an Adof Hitler speech)
“erasure poem: Corner Stone Against Slavery” (derived from a Confederate speech)
“erasure poem: a Declaration of Female Freedom” (derived from the U.S. Declaration of Independence)
“erasure poem: One of the Most Hated Women in America” (derived from statements made by Casey Anthony after she was charged with the murder of her infant daughter Caylee (for which she was later acquitted)
“erasure poem: a Poetic History” (derived from selected English words from India poet Sri Sri’s Telugu poem “Desa Charitralu”

Bonus videos in the above playlist include readings of these poems individually both before (to advertise) and after (to highlight) the feature presentation.

Janet Kuypers’ “Exploring Spring” 3/4/17 poetry feature/show with background music

May 27, 2017 by Janet Kuypers

Below are writing links, video links and images from a March 4^th 2017 (3/4/17, or 20170304) poetry performance of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through “Spring Awakenings” live at the Bahá’í Faith Center in Austin Texas.

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The theme of the night with other features was about spring (ergo the “Spring Awakenings” title), so Janet Kuypers’ show “Exploring Spring” was also accompanied by recently recorded sounds of birds chirping outside, accompanying music by “Hotel Music” from the HA!Man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux, with “entering the ruines” from his “Hotel Music”), where she also had video of him playing his cello on a small screen joining her on stage.

Before the show started she also released copies of a chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show (in the order they were performed), and all of the pieces from this reading were also released electronically in a “Exploring Spring” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time.

Read the poems from the show:

“Spring”
“Entering the War Room”
“Job that Only Paid the Bills”
“Killing the Survivor Bug”
“Springtime”
“Original Snowbirds”

Bonus videos in the above playlist include readings of these poems individually both before and after the feature presentation.

Janet Kuypers’ “Exalted Love” 2/4/17 poetry feature/show with background music

May 8, 2017 by Janet Kuypers

Below are writing links, video links and images from a February 4^th 2017 (2/4/17, or 20170204) poetry performance of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature “Exalted Love” through “Greatest Love” live in Austin Texas.

The theme of the night with other features was about poetry and was about not just love (because Valentine’s Day is this month), but the “Greatest Love” , which can be interpreted philosophically in so many ways. So Janet Kuypers covered this very explicitly in her show about the love of a person, the love of nature, the love of astronomy, or even discovering the right book to bring the love of the right philosophy, bringing meaning to your life. Her “Exalted Love” show was also accompanied by music from Mozart (“the Dissonant”) rainforest sounds, and “Hotel Music” from the HA!Man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux, with “the story i am trying to tell” and “easy afternoon” both from his “Hotel Music”).

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Before the show started she also released copies to most everyone there of a chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show (in the order they were performed), and all of the pieces from this reading were also released electronically in a &#8220Exalted Love” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time.

Read the poems from the show:

“Mapping the Way to True Love”
“Years, Centuries, Eons”
“Zenith of the Night Sky”
“just one book”

Bonus videos in the above playlist include “after the show” poems, like “Amber Beads”, “Praying to Idols”, “Unless it Happens to You”, and the haiku “oceans”.

Canon Power Shot video still from Exalted Love show