Since the evening was about hosting open mics by “Honoring Open Mic Hosts”, Janet Kuypers started with a poem about going to open mics, then a poem dedicated to the previous host of the poetry open mic Janet Kuypers ran for over half a decade in Chicago, then the first and last poems Janet Kuypers read at her Chicago open mic, and then poems about the troubles and the joys of hosting a poetry open mic. Her “Time to Start the Show” show was also accompanied by music played live in a past reading of hers at 2017 Austin Rhythm Fire from 3/20/17.
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 “Time to Start the Show” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time.
Read the poems from the feature “Time to Start the Show”:
“the Bathroom at the Green Mill”
“Frozen Together”
“the Battle at Hand”
“On Ashes”
“Kick Someone Out”
“Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls”
bonus “Haiku on the Fly” reading:
“keep”
“escape”
“force”
“drowning”
“oceans”
“destroy”
