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Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 7/5/09

See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 7/5/09

Watch the full show “One Acts” (from camera #1) live 7/6/09 This film is from the Internet Archive (this video appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Watch the full show of One Acts (7/5/09, camera @#035;2). (this video appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 3/27/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 3/27/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poem “Walking Home from School”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keeps Pounding Against Walls” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Walking Home from School” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Games we Play” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keeps Pounding Against Walls” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Walking Home from School” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Games we Play” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Walking Home from School” from her “One Acts show, her poem “An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage” from her “a Woman on the Beach show, then her poem“Ten and Ten, plus Two” from her “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/8/18 @ “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Walking Home from School” from her “One Acts show, her poem “An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage” from her “a Woman on the Beach show, then her poem“Ten and Ten, plus Two” from her “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/8/18 @ “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burn it In (reading the end edit)”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “The Truth is Out There”, “Walking Home from School”, “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield”, and “One Summer Traveled” from the from the cyberwit.net 2021 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” 3/3/21, during the usual 1:00-3:00 PM CST time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

walking home from school once when I was little I was walking home from school filled with fear, like I always was the other kids made fun of me they called me names sometimes they threw rocks at me once they pushed me to the ground went home, bleeding knees and tears but once, I’ll never forget, Patti from 121st street was walking behind me and threw her gym shoes at me they landed right next to me as I was walking down that first big hill I don’t know if I stopped but I remember for a brief moment looking up at the tall tree branches next to the road all the entangled dead branches and I thought that all I had to do was pick up her shoes and throw them as hard as I could and she would never get her shoes back I looked at the trees for only a moment and I continued walking as fast as I could as I always did and suddenly the shoes were long behind me and the others were laughing I look back now and wonder why I didn’t do it was I scared of them was I scared of myself I still keep asking myself that Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.