An open letter about Scars Publications / Janet Kuypers dot com podcasts     Over the years (2005 through 2009) over 50 podcasts have been created for free distribution of different forms of performance art. Most podcasts have been poetry book readings, though podcasts have included live performance art shows, compilations of performance art CD releases, and (occasionally) music from local acoustic bands.     A multi-CD disc set has been released of most of the past podcasts (the only podcasts that will not be included in the CD release are the podcasts of music performances). The extensice CD set is called “the Evolution of Performance Art.”     The podcasts (with this CD set release) in this series are ending. Two bonus releases will be made available on the CD set of book reading podcasts, and the music podcasts (like 01/06 Mom’s Favorite Vase, 03/06 Sing Your Life, 04/06 Change/Rearrange, 11/06 Mom’s Favorite Vase, 12/06 Change/Rearrange, 06/07 Mom’s Favorite Vase and 01/08 Mom’s Favorite Vase) will remain at this site, but the way these book reading podcasts will be available in the future is through online sales. Look below for full listings of the titles of pieces read in each of the podcasts.     It has been an honor and we have been thrilled to make these performance art podcasts available to the world for so long, and we thank everyone who has had interest in the performance art and podcast world. We believe that if people were unaware of this podcast over the years in the past, having these tracks available at larger web sites online would give these performance art and poetry readings tracks more exposure to the world, so more may be able to enjoy this audio poetry format.     This page will remain here, for anyone interested in knowing about the track availability, and... Thank you for being a part of the poetry and performance art podcast community. here are links to find this album set on line: amazon.com

12/09: poetry readings from the book Slate & Marrow:     a “Slate and Marrow” or “S&M” poetry book reading: the Apartment, In The Air, I Am The Woman Who Loves Pain, Women’s Very Existence, Who You Tell Your Dreams To, Helping Men In Public Places, Why Do You, Communication, Too Far, Right There By Your Heart 11/09: poetry readings from the book Slate & Marrow:     a “Slate and Marrow,” or “S&M,” poetry book reading, with: Age, Praying To Idols, Moonlight, Medication, The Burning, Tall Man, I Wanted Pain, Writing Your Name, Done This Before, High Roller, There I Sit, Children Churches and Daddies, David 10/09: poetry readings from the book Rinse & Repeat:     a “Rinse and Repeat” book reading, with: I Don’t Want To, Against My Will, Like My Motto, You Would Know If You Were Here 09/09: poetry readings from the book Oh.:     an “Oh.” poetry book reading, with: Fire Alarms, Never Did The Same, I Have My Dreams, Now I’m Strong, Here Is Me, More Whiskey Sours, See You Crawl, Who Is At My Side, I Must Believe, I’m Always The One, Saving Myself 08/09: poetry readings from the book Moving Performances:     a “Moving Performances” poetry book reading, with: You Would Know If You Were Here, My Father Shooting an Animal, and the short story “Crazy” 07/09: poetry readings from the book Duality:     a “Duality” book reading, with: Gary’s Blind Date, Afraid of Telling the Truth, I Don’t Care, at Least That’s What I Hear, I’ve Done That; So Have You 06/09: poetry readings from the book Chaos Theory:     a “Chaos Theory” poetry book reading, with the poems “the Fourteenth” and “Ten Minutes” 05/09: poetry readings from the book Close Cover Before Striking:     a “Close Cover Before Striking” poetry book reading, with: The State of the Nation, People’s Rights Misunderstood, Over My Skin With Such Ease, Where To Go, Hurt/Cold, Philosopher at the Blue Note, Hard of Hearing, Screaming, I Seem To Know Animals 04/09: part of the poetry readings from the books Blister & Burn and Sulphur & Sawdust:     a “Blister and Burn” book reading, with: See You Crawl, Saving Myself, Who Is At My Side, Never Did The Same, and the poem I Must Believ     a “Sulphur and Sawdust” poetry book reading, with: I Seem to Know Animals, Screaming, Hard of Hearing, Philosopher at the Blue Note, Over My Skin With Such Ease 03/09: part of the poetry from the books Blister& Burn and Sulphur & Sawdust:     a “Sulphur and Sawdust” poetry book reading, with: Hurt/Cold, People’s Rights Misunderstood, Where To Go, The State of the Nation     a “Blister and Burn” poetry book reading, with: I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much, Russians at a Garage Sale, I Have My Dreams, I’m Always The One, The One At Mardi Gras, This You Don’t Hate, More Than We Should Have, Chances Two: Here I Am, Masquerade 02/09: part 3 of the poetry from the book Seeing Things Differently:     a “Seeing Things Differently” book reading, with: Andrew Hettinger, Communication, Conversations a Day of Grieving 1/22/94 Two 01/09: part 2 of the poetry from the book Seeing Things Differently:     a “Seeing Things Differently” book reading, with: More than we Should Have, My MotherMy MotherMy Mother, Philosopher at the Blue Note, She Was a Woman 12/08: part 1 of the poetry from the book Seeing Things Differently:     a “Seeing Things Differently” book reading, with: Transcribing Dreams Three, He Told Me His Dreams 1, He Told Me His Dreams 4, He Told Me His Dreams 9, Conversations (a day of grieving, 01/22/94) Two 11/08: the last poetry set from the chapbooks/book set the Elements:     “the Elements” book reading, with: Untitled, Nights, Religion, Sometimes the Light, the Joshua Tree, A Smile On My Face, Supposed to Make us Laugh, Supposed to Be Done, Suspend my Beliefs, So to Speak, Needy Person, Well What About Me, Make Things Better, and more 10/08: more poetry from the chapbooks/book set the Elements:     a “the Elements” book reading (released 10/08) with: Here’s Your chance, As I Recovered, Telling What you Want And Hearing What You Want, This May Sound, Everyone Else Does It, Simple Things, Wrong Attention, An Innocent Glance, Good Bye, Do You Know, Trapped, Men Are Dogs Is True, Driving Car Into Ditch, Love Poem, Make Me, Changing Garments, Nothing Colorful in my Sight, Weeping Willow, The Place, You Will, a New Life, Kill Yourself, a Diamond, a New Idea Pretty Quick 09/08: more poetry from the chapbooks/book set the Elements: a “the Elements” book reading, with: What It All Means, Someone Give Me The Answers, Prepared for the Worst, Get It Over With, Each Morning, How I Imagine You, Death is a Dog 08/08: more poetry from the chapbooks/book set the Elements:     a “the Elements” book reading (released 08/08) with: Pressure On Me Again, Given A Warning Early On, How Many Times I’ve Done It, Touch, Seasons 1998, I See The Scene, Late For A Class, Princess Diana, One Year Later, Transcribing Dreams One, So Many Lies, Making Sense Out Of The Insane, Soybeans, When I Am Weak, After the Bomb, Have a Friend in Me 07/08: part of the poetry readings from the book the Elements:     A “the Elements” book reading: I Know It’s Not Going To Happen, I’d Laugh More, Sometimes It’s Not, Not For Me Yet, My Height Any Longer, For My Car Or My Life, Well Someone Is, The Effects of 9/11, Want That Too You Know, To Get To That Point, and more 06/08: part of the poetry readings from Singular Remembrances:     the “Singular Remembrances” poetry reading (released 05/08) with: My MotherMy MotherMy Mother, Death Sentence, If She’s There, Life Can Slip Away, I’m Tired, Listening to the Cancer Ads, Manic Depressive or Something, She’s Made Her Choice, So Don’t Worry, We’re Trying, This Isn’t Fair, I’ll Push The Cart, My Memorials To You part of the poetry readings from the book the Elements:     “the Elements” book reading, with: Untitled, Nights, Religion, Sometimes the Light, the Joshua Tree, A Smile On My Face, Supposed to Make us Laugh, Supposed to Be Done, Suspend my Beliefs, So to Speak, Needy Person, Well What About Me, Make Things Better, Transcribing Dreams 2 05/08: part 2 of poetry readings from Singular Remembrances:     “Singular Remembrances” poetry: Pain Is Weakness/Pain Is A Crutch, Really Physically Heal, Rings Like Gravestones, She’s Going Home, Wither Away, We’re Your Children, My Memorials 2 U, Your Soul is Shaking, Seven Ten...Seven Twenty, The Messenger, and more 04/08: part 1 of poetry readings from Singular Remembrances:     the “Singular Remembrances” poetry reading (released 04/08) with: Pain Is Weakness/Pain Is A Crutch, A Happy Ending To Everything, Really Physically Heal, Rings Like Gravestones, She’s Going Home, The Last Time He Sees Her Alive, This is What You Leave Me, This Is What It’s Reduced To Now, Wither Away, We’re Your Children, My Memorials To You, Your Soul is Shaking, Seven Ten...Seven Twenty, The Messenger, Final Rally, Death and a Diamond Ring 03/08: poetry book reading of the book 6/11:     a “Six Eleven” book reading, with: Looking for A Worthy Adversary, Work Journal One, Work Journal Two, The Effects of Nine One One 02/08: poetry book reading of the book Close Cover Before Striking:     a “Close Cover Before Striking” book reading, with the short story “I Remember” 01/08: the Music Band (live and from CD) Mom’s Favorite Vase 12/07: poems from the book the Elements.:     a “the Elements” book reading (released 12/07) with: I Know It’s Not Going To Happen, I’d Laugh More, Sometimes It’s Not, Not For Me Yet, My Height Any Longer, For My Car Or My Life, Well, Someone Is, The Effects of 9/11, Want That Too You Know, To Get To That Point, Not Getting Better, Slow Painful Death, Is To Blame For It 11/07: poems from the book etc.:     an “Etc.” book reading (released 11/07) with: Morning Will Be Kind, ‘Til the Fear in me Subsides, Scars 1997, the Battle at Hand, This You Don’t Hate, True Happiness in the New Millennium, Warm and Fuzzy, Whether or Not it is From Religion, Will Be Just Fine, You Would Know if You Were Here, Gerbil, Grab the Other’s Neck, I’m a Record Now, What We Are Supposed To Do     BONUS: An “Etc.” book reading: Morning Will Be Kind, ‘Til the Fear in me Subsides, Scars 1997, This You Don’t Hate, Warm and Fuzzy, Will Be Just Fine, You Would Know if You Were Here, Gerbil, the Battle at Hand, Grab the Other’s Neck, I’m a Record Now, and more 10/07: poems from the book Slate & Marrow:     a “Slate & Marrow” book reading, with: Coquinas, Scars, The Way You Tease Me, And What I Want To Know, And I’m Wondering, Wedding Lost 09/07: poems from the cc&d issue (v165.5) Singular Endings:     the “Singular Endings” poetry reading (released 09/07) with: Coping With Her Leaving, Letting Time Tick By, The Power To See Her, Everything Lives With Her, The Good Ones, Knelt and Cried, We’re Not Making Any More Appointments, Clouds Over Blue Sky’s, It Hurts in the Bones, More Painful to Experience 08/07: the Stripped (live) perofrmance art show:     the “Stripped” live show recording, with: Key To Survival, Get Me Out Of This Cage, What the Hell is She Complaining About, Your Minions Are Dying, We Listened, Marry Me...Whatever You Are, Outsourcing the American Dream 07/07: poems from the book Hope Chest in the Attic:     a “Hope Chest in the Attic” book reading, with: I Wanted Pain, Medication, Moonlight, David, age, Writing Your Name, Tall Man, Children, Churches and Daddies, There I Sit, the Burning 06/07: the Music Band (live and from CD) Mom’s Favorite Vase 05/07: poems from the book etc.:     an “Etc.” book reading with: I’m Not Sick (But I’m Not Well), Joy, Fighting I Can Do, Panther, Chances Two: Here I Am, The Hunter and the Fox, Holding My Hand, Against my Will, Anyone Good Enough, As I Recovered, Before I Learned Better, Because This Is What We Do, Being God, Can’t Answer That One, Chances Two: Here I Am, Holding my Skin Together, I Don’t Want To, I Dreamt About You Last Night, Looking for a Worthy Adversary 04/07: poems from S&M (from “Slate and Marrow”):     a “Slate & Marrow” book reading, with: One Summer, Type “A” Person, God Eyes, Kurt Irons (it’s Just a Girl) 03/07: poems from the cc&d issue (v165.5) Singular Endings:     the “Singular Endings” poetry reading, with: Harder To Burn, Wanting to Touch a Corpse, Story Telling, A Little Angel Inside, Just Let Her Rest 02/07: poems from the book Hope Chest in the Attic:     a “Hope Chest in the Attic” book reading, with: Right There By Your Heart, Photograph, Nineteenth Century, Clay, Done This Before, High Roller 01/07: the studio Beach Poets 2005 feature:     the studio “Beach Poets” 2005 feature, with: Burn It In, David, I Dreamt About You Last Night, Coquinas, A Child In The Park, Freedom Just Past The Fence, In The Air, Age, Clay 12/06: Change/Rearrangesampled music w/ poetry:     Change/Rearrange CD collection 2 with: Holding my Skin Together, I Don’t Want To, Lost in the Breeeze, Most Accurate Metaphors, My Dead Daughter, Praying to Idols, Two Minutes with Ayn Rand, Right There By Your Heart, What do we Say, Against My Will, Why I’ll Never Get Married, Why Do You, Will Be Just Fine, Gears get Caught in the Mud     Change/Rearrange (tracks 2 in CD set): Holding Skin together, I Don’t Want to, Lost in the Breeeze, Most Accurate Metaphors, My Dead Daughter, Praying to Idols, to Minutes with Ayn Rand, Right There By Your Heart, What do we Say, Against My Will, Why Do You, Will Be Just Fine, and more 11/06: music & covers from (acoustic & alternative) MFV 10/06: live book reading from the book Etc.:     an “Etc.” book reading, with: I’m Not Sick (But I’m Not Well), Joy, Fighting I Can Do, Panther, Chances Two: Here I Am, The Hunter and the Fox, Holding My Hand 09/06: the Stripped (studio) perofrmance art show:     the “Stripped” studio show recording, with: Key To Survival (the poem of “J”), Get Me Out Of This Cage, What the Hell is She Complaining About, Your Minions Are Dying, We Listened, Marry Me...Whatever You Are, Outsourcing the American Dream 08/06: the Dreams (studio) perofrmance art show:     the “Dreams” show studio recording, with: He Told Me His Dreams 4 , Realistic Dreams, the Dream, He Told Me His Dreams 5, Transcribing Dreams 3, Dreams 3 (Dreams 01/19/04 Three), He Told Me His Dreams 9, A Dream About Murder, People’s Rights Misunderstood 07/06: live 12/10/02 book readings from Blister & Burn, Hope Chest in the Attic, & Slate & Marrow:     “Hope Chest in the Attic” book reading, with the poems: Wedding Lost, Coquinas, All Men Have Secrets     “Blister & Burn” book reading with: Anyone Good Enough, Burn Through Me, Before I Learned Better, A Woman Talking About Her Rapist Friend, Content With Inferior Men, The Things Warren Says, Infallible, Who You Tell Your Dreams To, Can’t Answer That One, Why I’ll Never Get Married     “Slate & Marrow” book reading, with: On An Airplane With a Frequent Flyer, Headache, My MotherMy MotherMy Mother 06/06: live 12/10/02 novel release show for The Key To Believing. 05/06: from studio recordings from Conflict•Contact•Control:     Conflict • Contact • Control 04/01/05 studio recording (released 05/06) with: Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl), The Men At The Construction Site, Women’s Very Existence, White Knuckled, And What I Want To Know, And I’m Wondering, The Way You Tease Me, Athena, Military Police, Too Far, Communication ‘05 04/06: from the poetry sampled CD Change/Rearrange:     Change/Rearrange CD collection 1, with: Gears get Caught in the Mud (the whisper mix), After the Wreckage, All Your Fault, Communication, Andrew Hettinger, Farmer, High Roller, Once Wanted You as my Friend 03/06: tracks from the live 2003 open mike Sing Your Life 02/06: the live 06/22/04 performance art show A Night of Firsts:     A Night of Firsts 06/22/04 show, with: Under the Sea, In Love I Abide, The Little Differences, Tight Rope Affair, Too Far, What We Need in Life 01/06: the Music Band (live and from CD) Mom’s Favorite Vase 12/05: the live Chicago performance art show 6/11:     6/11 (06/11/02) performance art show CD with: the NASA Project, Moonlight, Looking for a Worthy Adversary, Work Journal one, Why I’ll Never Get Married, Work Journal two, The Battle At Hand, New To Chicago, The Effects of 9/11, (portions of) Right There By Your Heart, the Buring, Death Takes Many Forms, after 7/11 part 1, King of the Universeafter 7/11 part 2, Changing Garments, after 7/11 part 3, Death is a Dog, after 7/11 part 4, Fantastic Car Crash BONUS TRACK (form the CD recording):     6/11/02 CD: NASA Project, Moonlight, Looking 4 a Worthy Adversary, Why I’ll Never Get Married, The Battle at Hand, New 2 Chicago, Right There By Your Heart, the Buring, Death Takes Many Forms, Changing Garments, Death is a Dog, Fantastic Car Crash & prose 11/05: the Kuypers and Pettus show Live at Cafe Aloha: In the first track in the CD set:     Live at Cafe Aloha Janet Kuypers & Jason Pettus 08/05/97 show with: The State of the Nation (Janet Kuypers), In My World (Jason Pettus), Type A Person (Janet Kuypers), The Guy who says Fuck A Lot (Jason Pettus), The One At Mardi Gras (Janet Kuypers), Typing on Keyboards on Bars (Jason Pettus), Burn It In (Janet Kuypers), I Will Not Use Your Damn P.C. (Jason Pettus), Communication (Janet Kuypers), Describing Silence (Jason Pettus), And What I Want To Know (Janet Kuypers), She Writes About Me And I Write About Her (Jason Pettus), And I’m Wondering (Janet Kuypers) In the second track in the CD set:     Live at Cafe Aloha Janet Kuypers & Jason Pettus 08/05/97 with: The State of the Nation, Type A Person, The One At Mardi Gras, Burn It In, Communication, And What I Want To Know, And I’m Wondering, and 6 Jason Pettus poems 10/05: from the Chicago Poetry Fest 08/28/05:     Poetry Fest 08/28/05 show with: The Way You Tease Me, Grab the Other’s Neck, Praying To Idols, Desire, The Muse; The Messiah BONUS podcasts:     from “Blister & Burn” book: Anyone Good Enough, Burn Thru Me, Before I Learned Better, A Woman Talking About Her Rapist Friend, Content With Inferior Men, Things Warren Says, Infallible, Who You Tell Your Dreams To, Can’t Answer That One, Why I’ll Never Get Married     the Entropy Project (bonus book reading PodCast) with: Get Me Out of this Cage, A Great American, Marry Me... Whatever You Are, Tall Man, Fitting the Mold     the Entropy Project, with: a Retired Poloceman Talks About Suicides He’s Seen, Odd How Things Turn Out That Way, Salamander     the Entropy Project, with two poems: Salamander, September 11 2001     a “the Elements” book reading, with: Here’s Your chance, As I Recovered, This May Sound, Simple Things, Wrong Attention, Weeping Willow, The Place, You Will, a New Life, Kill Yourself, a Diamond, Good Bye, Do You Know, Trapped, Love Poem, Make Me, and more     a “the Elements” book reading (released 11/08) with: Grab The Other’s Neck, And Flowers And Funerals, Fantastic Car Crash, The Third or Fourth Fourth of September, What Do You Do, You Know It (fish), New To Chicago, Feel So Much, Which I Like, They Tried, Getting Used To Something New     a “the Elements” book reading, with: And Flowers And Funerals, The 3rd or 4th 4th of September, What Do You Do, You Know It (fish), New To Chicago, Feel So Much, Which I Like, They Tried, Getting Used To Something New, Grab The Other’s Neck, and one more poem     “the Elements” book reading, with: Soybeans, When I Am Weak, After the Bomb, Have a Friend in Me, Touch, Seasons 1998, I See The Scene, Late 4 A Class, Pressure On Me Again, So Many Lies, Given A Warning Early On, How Many Times I’ve Done It, and more     An “Etc.” book reading: I’m Not Sick (But I’m Not Well), Joy, Fighting I Can Do, Panther, Chances 2: Here I Am, The Hunter & the Fox, Holding My Hand, Against my Will, Anyone Good Enough, As I Recovered, Before I Learned Better, Being God, and more