Janet Kuypers’ 1st interview on Austin Radio 4/27/16 on KOOP 91.7 fm

KOOP Radio (91.7 FM) invited Janet Kuypers as a special guest for an hour-long radio show in Austin Texas, where they talked not only about what they have been reading (for Janet it is usually submissions to the literary magazines she edits, cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine), but also Janet’s past work as the host of the Chicago open mic the Café Gallery and what compels her to write.

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The group finished their hour-long show with Janet reading two poems, “Entering the Lake of Fire” (the first poem she wrote IN Austin, about moving to Austin), and Us, Actually Touching (as a better end cap to the evening about literature).

Tony Martin Woods Reads with Transforming with Poetry at Inkwell Arts. Leeds.UK

Transforming Poetry is a society of poets who read monthly at the Inkwell Arts Center, it includes regular local poets & guest poets, this last performance took place on the 30th of April 2016. Tony Martin Woods is the organizer and presenter of Transforming with Poetry, he is seen hear reading his translation Ontology from his recently published volume of poems Journeys of the Goddesses.
 

 
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Mike Baynham Reads with Transforming with Poetry at Inkwell Arts. Leeds UK.

Transforming Poetry is a society of poets who read monthly at the Inkwell Arts Center, it includes regular local poets & guest poets, this last performance took place on the 30th of April 2016. Here Mike Baynham reads first from his original written in Spanish & then it’s original in English Cavafy when Old.
 

 
 
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Owen Turner Read with Transforming with Poetry at Inkwell Arts. Leeds UK

Transforming Poetry is a society of poets who read monthly at the Inkwell Arts Center, it includes regular local poets & guest poets, this last performance took place on the 30th of April 2016. Here Owen Turner reads 3 short witty poems.
 

 
 
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At the Fountain Park | Poem by Alvin Knox

Fountain Poem

At the Fountain Park

Today, children—younger, older,
black, white, and shades between—
run through the spray and spouting jets,
an impromptu game of tag with each other
and the randomly shifting streams.
They have tossed their shoes
around the fountain’s base to form
makeshift garlands of green, yellow,
red and blue. The fountain likes this.
Today, the central, vertical stream rises
one inch higher than its typical fourteen feet.
I have read the plaque on the fountain’s base.
The children, some in swimsuits, some
in clothes their parents forgot would get wet,
cavort in rings around the fountain, laughing,
except for one little girl who has stopped dead,
silent, gazing into the sky, into the invisible.
Today, she is the chosen one, the magic one
in the perfect place to see the fountain play with the sun.

 

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Addiction | Poem by Kudzai Mahwite

Addiction Poem

Addiction

Oh damn the urge,
That fucking deadly surge,
Body’s ineluctable self-purge.

Every cell within me craves,
I’m one of its petty slaves.

I want to doubt; I want to reject.
Yet my mind lacketh the clout,
I am but a subject.

Oh the fleeting ecstasy,
The indescribable bliss.

Does ever shorten life’s lease.

We all feign attempts to absolve,
In truth we really lack the resolve.
Just momentarily veiled: never solved.
The desire is just too strong

Kudzai Mahwite is a young Zimbabwean poet inspired greatly by the works and life of William Shakespeare. He is an Economics student and as part of his studies runs a small-time blog on the African Economy. Kudzai is also a Sportswriter with Football.co.uk.You can follow him on Twitter @sir_tos.