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Janet Kuypers’ Book Readings 12/6/17 in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books

July 21, 2020 by Janet Kuypers

December 6^th marked a December 2017 Book Release Reading of new books during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books from Scars Publications, which saw the release of the books “Flawed Cadaver” from cc&d magazine; and “the Lighthouse” from Down in the Dirt magazine. Because it was an end-of-the-year reading at this feature poetry reading event, Janet Kuypers also read material from the 2017 Scars Publications collection books that were recently released, and was able to share poems, haiku poems and one piece of flash fiction from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a rainy Day” and the poetry and flash fiction collection anthology “Negative Space”. Janet Kuypers also read material from from her 2017 book releases “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” and “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” as the finale readings to the Community Poetry @ Half Price Books reading in Austin.

There is also a YouTube playlist of the videos of this show, and a Scars Publications web page with links to many video performances from this book store reading.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 12/17 book “the Lighthouse” poetry (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 12/17 book “the Lighthouse” poetry (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 12/17 book “Flawed Cadaver” poetry (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 12/17 book “Flawed Cadaver” poetry (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars book “On a rainy Day” poetry at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Panasonic Lumix T56).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars book “On a rainy Day” poetry (Panasonic Lumix 2500).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Negative Space” book poetry and prose (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Negative Space” book poetry and prose (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” book poetry (Panasonic Lumix T56).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” book poetry (Panasonic Lumix 2500).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” book poems (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading from her bookher “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” book poems (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See 178 photos online in a Facebook photo album of Janet Kuypers when she was reading from the book “the Lighthouse”.	See 252 photos online in a Facebook photo album of Janet Kuypers when she was reading from the book “Flawed Cadaver”.	See 214 photos online in a Facebook photo album of Janet Kuypers when she was reading from the book “On a rainy Day”.
See 124 photos online in a Facebook photo album of Janet Kuypers when she was reading from the book “Negative Space”.	See a Facebook photo album of Janet Kuypers in 113 photos when she was reading from her book release “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”.	See a Facebook photo album of Janet Kuypers in 47 photos when she was reading from her book release “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”.

Poems in this show include (in multiple readings): “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, “Everyone Celebrates Together”, “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species”, “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph”, “census”, “gone”, “enjoy”, “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, “addiction”, “Driving By His House”, “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, “Only an Observer”, “our futures”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Kick Someone Out”, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls”, “Xerostomia”, “You Were Meant”, “Jumping from the Mausoleum”, “origin, from the macro to the micro”, and “Queen of Multimedia for a reason”.

The “December 2017 Book Release Reading” series of multiple book through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” in Austin, TX, also has a Scars Publications web page for this show, which contains video, poetry, and photography links.

Janet Kuypers’ poetry “Who What Where When Why” feature 12/2/17

May 12, 2020May 11, 2020 by Janet Kuypers

Below are video, poetry, and photography links (as well as a chapbook link) from the December 2^th 2017 (12/2/17, or 20171202, or 2 Nov 2017) poetry performance of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through the Expressions! show at Austin’s the Bahá’í Center, titled “Who What Where When Why”. In this show she read poetry bout peace and love and harmony with nature after her very recent return from Antarctica, all also accompanied by not only music but also a rotating art display of not only art from Antarctica but also images from most of her past live performances at the Bahá’í Center over the past two years.

Before the show started she also released copies to most everyone there of a chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show, and all of the pieces from this reading were also released electronically in a “Who What Where When Why” chapbook, which you can view or download as a PDF file for free any time.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 12/2/17 show “Who What Where When Why” @ “Expressions” in Austin, performing her poems “Who What Where When Why”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “on the Bridge”, “Jumping, Flying”, “Only Voice he could Hear”, “Passport to Outer Space”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” (from a Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video 4/6/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Death Takes Many Forms” after her 12/2/17 show “Who What Where When Why” @ “Expressions” in Austin (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Poems in this show include (in multiple readings):
“Who What Where When Why”
“Ocean’s Call to Dive”
“on the Bridge”
“Jumping, Flying”
“Only Voice he could Hear”
“Passport to Outer Space”
and
“Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”
plus the bonus poem
“Death Takes Many Forms”

You can also follow the text links below for video stills from the show…
and Thom Woodruff’s photography of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Death Takes Many Forms”.

The “Who What Where When Why” Scars Publications web page for this show also contains these video, poetry, photography, and chapbook links.

The Tilting. An Audio Textual Poem by Robin Ouzman Hislop

May 2, 2020April 29, 2020 by Robin Ouzman Hislop

Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; his publications include

All the Babble of the Souk , Cartoon Molecules and Next Arrivals, collected poems, and the recently published Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae , a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.

You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

Making the Best of It. A Video Text Poem by Sara L. Russell

July 8, 2020April 23, 2020 by Robin Ouzman Hislop

Make time for oatmeal
slap it on your face
A mask is always useful

Think about Mindfulness
enter the id
explore the more spiritual

Get into baking
throw nothing away
cut your own hair

A virtual pub quiz
almost the same
as being there

So here is Friday
a bit like Thursday
by another name

Here is a message
stay home save lives
be good, play the game

Here comes a baldy
With cold dead eyes
to tell you again

Here’s a comedian
saying the same thing
but makes it a joke

There’s good little children
there’s a good housewife
that’s a good bloke

Spring is forbidden
summer is cancelled
commerce has died

So dance in your bedroom
sing into your hairbrush
Pretend they all lied.

Sara L. Russell 17th April 2020

Sara Louise Russell, aka PinkyAndrexa, is a UK poet and poetry ezine editor, specialising particularly in sonnets, lyric-style poetry and occasionally writing in more modern styles. She founded Poetry Life & Times and edited it from 1998 to 2006, when she handed it over to Robin Ouzman Hislop, who now runs it as Editor at this site. Her poems and sonnets have been published in many paper and online publications including Sonnetto Poesia, Mindful of Poetry and Autumn Leaves a monthly Poetry ezine from the late Sondra Ball. Her sonnets also currently appear in the recently published anthology of sonnets Phoenix Rising from the Ashes. She is also one of the first poets ever to be published on multimedia CD ROMs, published by Kedco Studios Inc.; the first one being “Pinky’s Little Book of Shadows”, which was featured by the UK’s national newspaper The Mirror, in October 1999. (Picture link for Mirror article)Angel Fire

Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

Janet Kuypers’ poetry “November 2017 Book Release Reading” 11/1/17

January 24, 2020January 21, 2020 by Janet Kuypers

November 1^st marked a November 2017 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry of new books from Scars Publications, which saw the release of the books “Warrior’s Light” from cc&d magazine (with cover photography of the “diamond ruing” of the sun peeking behind the moon during the total eclipse of the sun 8/21/17); and “Mon sters” from Down in the Dirt magazine. In his reading, Janet Kuypers read performance art poetry material from cc&d magazine’s book, and haiku as well as poetry from “Mon sters”.

Because there was time during this feature poetry reading event, Janet Kuypers also read material from her 2014 mini-books (from her “Partial Nudity”/“Rev ealed” book releases) “Part of my Pain”, “Twitterati”, and “Let me See You Stripped” as the finale to the Community Poetry @ Half Price Books reading in Austin.

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Poems in this show include (in multiple readings):
“the Bathroom at the Green Mill”
“Frozen Together”
“the Battle at Hand”
“On Ashes”
“Kick Someone Out”
“Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls”

“knife”
“easy”
“ghosts”
“Ernesto”
“Just Thinking About It”
“Political Merry-Go-Round”
“Verge on Meditation”

“Good Escape”
“In These Times”
“Part of my Pain”
“Now That You Got Me”
“Ever Since you Got Me”
“Know You Only Got Me”
“Push Your Button”
“How People Interpret my Words”
“Observer’s Love Poem”

“Poverty in America”
“Oklahoma water-surfing”
“Zach makes me Think about these Things”
“Mechanical Soldiers”
“Fingers Black”
“You Cannot Burn Me”
“Opening Our Own Doors”
“Guantanamo Bay”
“Even if the Pope Claims It”
“Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”
“From Words to Wars”
“Money Became an Abstract”
“Where does the Love Go”
“Spent”
“Cast in Stone”

“Like I was Never There”
“Scratch the Surface”
“You are a Force”
“You Repel Me”
“Holding Hands”

Janet Kuypers’ “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” poetry show 10/7/17

December 3, 2019 by Janet Kuypers

Below are video links from a October 7^th 2017 (10/7/17, or 20171007) poetry performance (with accompanying music “the Ice is Melting” from the HA!Man of South Africa) of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through Expressions Welcomes Autumn! at Austin’s the Bahá’í Center where she read poetry about autumn, as well as poetry about relationships and love, all accompanied by music (as well as a rotating art display).

Before the show started she also released copies to most everyone there of a chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show, and all of the pieces from this reading were also released electronically in a “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time.

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Poems in this show include:
“Sepia Leaves”
“Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs/Bahá’í Center edit)”
“Who You Tell Your Dreams To”
“You and Me and Your Girlfriend”
“The Way You Tease Me”
“And I’m Wondering”
“Just by Holding his Hand”
“Marry You in Autumn”
“Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”

Janet Kuypers’ 9/21/17 “Seasons Change” Dripping Springs, TX “Thirsty Thursday” show

August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 by Janet Kuypers

Chicago poet and Austin resident Janet Kuypers was honored to join poets and musicians at the Dripping Springs City Hall, where she was asked to do a feature for Thirsty Thursday on September ^st 2017 (9/2/21, or 20170921).

Included in her poetry show, she started with guitar from John while singing and performing her poem “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”. In the remainder of her show, her poetry reading about all of the seasons as they change was accompanied by music recordings from the HA!Man of South Africa (including “big drops falling on my walk” and “the cold feeling of touch”, from his “Hotel Music”). The entire show was also accompanied by a random art generation on a computer screen of her images from around the world.

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

Read the poems and songs from the from the “Seasons Change” show:

“True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”
“Knew I Had to be Ready”
“Original Snowbirds” (in her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”), “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)”
“Marry you in Autumn”
“Sepia Leaves”
“Quell the Vibrancy”
“Seasons 1998”, and “Death Takes Many Forms”
“Quiver with no Home”
“Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph”

Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading at Austin’s Half Price Books 9/6/17

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 by Janet Kuypers

September 6^th marked a September 2017 Book Release Reading of new books from Scars Publications, which saw the release of the books “a Pick for the Future” from cc&d magazine and “Car pool” from Down in the Dirt magazine.

Beause May-August 2017 issue collection books were also released from Scars Publications, Janet Kuypers also had the opportunity to read selections from one of the performance art sections within the cc&d issue collection book “Nothing Lasts” as well as haiku and poetry from the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Random Thoughts”.

Because there was additional time at the end of the multi-feature poetry reading event, Janet Kuypers also read material from her 2017 book release “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” as the finale to the Community Poetry @ Half Price Books reading in Austin.

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Janet Kuypers writings read from “a Pick for the Future”:
“eminence”
“Mapping the Way to True Love”
“Years, Centuries, Eons”

Janet Kuypers writings read from “Car pool”:
“soul”
“earth”
“lost”,
“jumped”
“Exempt from the Draft”
“You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”
“Only an Observer”

Janet Kuypers writings read from “Nothing Lasts”:
“a New Life”
“My First Time”
“Falling from the Sky”
“Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos”

Janet Kuypers writings read from “Random Thoughts”:
“oceans”
“gone”
“bruised”
“out there”
“judge”
“escape”
“ever get it back”
“opposite”
“need”
“Oh, She Was a Woman”

Janet Kuypers writings read from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”:
“Verge on Meditation”
“Elusive Imaginary Creature”
“Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species”
“Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”
“The Truth is Out There”
“Visions Were Justified”

visit http://scars.tv/av/20170906September2017Book_Release_readings_at_Half_Price_Books_Release_readings_at_Half_Price_Books.htm for a full listing of not only these videosm but also a series of images from this live reading.