The news from a fake poet
is that there is no news
there are no longer handholds called facts.
All is chaos
except for the refugees
who are real
except for the children
who are real.
A fake sun sets on a fake nation
and the fake temperature rises
the fake sea rises.
The fake reasons for war
become truths for awhile.
The refugees
who are real,
the children
who are real,
die for real.
Janet Kuypers’ Chicago WZRD Radio 8/23/17 2-part poetry feature & interview
On August 26th, 2017 (on her last full day visiting Chicago since her move to Austin, Texas in October 2015), Janet Kuypers was a selected feature on Chicago’s WZRD Radio (88.3 FM), and on this Sunday poetry radio show Janet Kuypers was interviewed not only at the beginning of the multi-hour radio show but also at the end of the showcase, which was not only broadcast live but was also made available as a set of SoundCloud audio releases and a set of YouTube video releases (a good portions of part 2 of the interview was also released as a live Facebook stream).
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= PLYa-AZK78_hrLk-JANQ5hGSeJA5YXvJig
During both parts of the interview, Janet Kuypers not only talked about life since leaving Chicago and moving to Austin (and her multiple features and poetry readings monthly in Austin). Specifically because she knew she was coming back to Chicago on the same week she was scheduled to photograph the total eclipse of the sun 8/21/17, she also had released through Scars Publications two Janet Kuypers poetry books of poetry she had written while living in Austin, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” and “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”. At the time of the radio show airing, these books were released from the first printer (which printed only in the U.S.), but by mid-September 2017 these books were also released through a second Amazon-affiliated printer, then printed for easier shipping not only in the U.S., but also in the U.K. and all of Europe.
Read the poems from the from the live Chicago “WZRD Radio show” (in two parts):
“Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”
“Original Snowbirds”
“Earth was Crying”
“Just Thinking About It”
“Political Merry-Go-Round”
“Ernesto”
“Endings Bring Light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together”
“Only Half the Story”
“Quieted Soul”
“Exempt from the Draft”
“Optimizing your Odds”
“Years, Centuries, Eons”
“Only an Observer”, and “Queen ISIS”
You can also come here to hear SoundCloud audio of Janet Kuypers sharing her poetry from her two books, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” and “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” (w/ her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”,“Original Snowbirds”, “Earth was Crying”, “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go-Round”, “Ernesto”, “Endings Bring Light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together”) in her Chicago 88.3 FM WZRD Radio interview 8/26/17, Part 1.
You can also come here to hear SoundCloud audio of Janet Kuypers sharing her poetry from her two books, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” and “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” (w/ her poems “Only Half the Story”, “Quieted Soul”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Optimizing your Odds”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Only an Observer”, and “Queen ISIS”) in her Chicago 88.3 FM WZRD Radio interview 8/26/17, Part 2.
You can also follow this link for a FaceBook photo album of 30 photographs taken during the first part of the radio show interview.
A soldier is one who
fights
in an army
Poetry is a form of literature
that uses aesthetic and
rhythmic
qualities of language
A soldier is a poem
and a poem,
a soldier
David Michael Jackson
…..the sky is falling…..
there are blue
chunks in my yard
pieces of clouds are
hanging
on the trees
like gossamer
like cotton sheets
blowing in the wind
and if I look really closely
I can see my mother
with clothes pins in her mouth
and she’s hanging these
clouds and she’s
smiling
david michael jackson Originally Published Apr 12, 2013 Motherbird.com
Photography from Photography by Fabrice Poussin