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Upcoming shows...

April 26, 2025 (Saturday, 4/26/25 at a 12:00-6:00 P.M. CST event)
17th annual Poetry Festival/tabletock poetry festival 2025 (Greenfield Coffee Cocktails Barrels Brew, 555 Pace Park Rd, Salado, TX 76571-5729, United States)
20220323 Janet Kuypers

While the Tablerock theater of Salado (where past Animal Tales book releases flourished, including Animal Tales 2020, Animal Tales 2021, Animal Tales 2022, Animal Tales 2023, and Animal Tales 2024) is under repair, the 2025 annual event has Greenfield Coffee Cocktails Barrels Brewis available as an event space to welcome donations to the rebuilding of the Tablerock theater. Because the theme is Repair and Restoration, Janet Kuypers has a feature Saturday, 4/26/25 at the beginning hours of the noon-6:00 P.M. CST space (possibly with accompanying background guitar from John) and will perform works from her recent book releases about keeping the earth repaired and understanding the value of what we have around us (all while both welcoming and understanding the power of nature). (Because this is not only for donations to the theater but also for book sales, chapbooks will not be released form this event.)

May 4, 2025 (Sunday, from 3:30-5:30 P.M. CST)
the “Poetic License” 5/4/25 global open mic (Zoom meeting)

Poetic License, the open mic that started at Austin’s Recycles Reads bookstore (that closed for open mics post-/COVID19) not meets globally through Zoom meetings, and has a Facebook event page for notices about the monthly Zoom meetings, appearing the week beforehand to let people know about the Zoom meeting for this open mic. Anyone can also email open mic host Janet Kuypers to be added to the Poetic License notifications list, which sends out one email every month, the week before the open mic, with links to the Zoom meeting link.

Since July 2020, there has also been a Zoom meeting, and since September 2020 the Zoom meeting has been for the full time of the open mic (thanks to Zoom meeting host John F McMullen (or guest host David Leo Sirois)), and the Zoom link will also be on the Facebook event page). You can email open mic host Janet Kuypers to ask for an invitation, but check the Poetic License open mics web page, and check the Facebook event page for the upcoming month, which will be open to the public for a get-together from your home. Janet Kuypers will read poems from new books in live Facebook video streams, and her readings will also be video recorded for later posting on YouTube (we do not record other people’s readings to protect their privacy, but anyone reading can ask the Zoom host to record them, and anyone attending is welcome to record their own readings to share online).

Check out Janet Kuypers’ performances at the Café Gallery
for past recordings to see Kuypers reading poetry & prose
@ her open mics and poetry shows from 9/03 through 8/15.

Check out Janet Kuypers’ performances at “Poetic License”
for past recordings to see Kuypers reading poetry & prose
(and singing songs) at her monthly open mic (starting 6/19).

Also go to the Scars at Artvilla page for a massive (and always growing) video listing of Kuypers.

Janet Kuypers video, at Scars with Artvilla

Kuypers performing the work of others...
see Kuypers videos of her reading poems from the magazines
she edits, as well as additional additional readings
(from most recent events to oldest recordings) at the
Kuypers reading the works of others page.

Miscellaneous performances...

Enjoy Janet Kuypers with percussion and singing back-up to Ron Kewin playing his acoustic guitar song adaptation of the Janet Kuypers poem “Shared Air”.	See YouTube video 7/28/16 of Janet Kuypers singing back-up & playing percussion to Ron Kewin playing his acoustic guitar song adaptation of Janet Kuypers’ poem “Shared Air”, + his 1st song he ever wrote, “Hainesville, Illinois” during Poetry Aloud (video by Ron Kewin).
See YouTube video 7/28/16 of Janet Kuypers singing back-up & playing percussion to Ron Kewin playing his acoustic guitar song adaptation of the Janet Kuypers poem “Shared Air” for Georgetown’s Poetry Aloud open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).	See YouTube video 7/28/16 of Janet Kuypers singing back-up & playing percussion to Ron Kewin playing his acoustic guitar song adaptation of the Janet Kuypers poem “Shared Air” for Georgetown’s Poetry Aloud open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).
See YouTube video 7/28/16 of Janet Kuypers singing back-up & playing percussion to Ron Kewin playing his acoustic guitar song adaptation of the Janet Kuypers poem “Shared Air” for Georgetown’s Poetry Aloud open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).	See YouTube video 7/28/16 of Janet Kuypers singing back-up & playing percussion to Ron Kewin playing his acoustic guitar song adaptation of the Janet Kuypers poem “Shared Air” for Georgetown’s Poetry Aloud open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).

On Sunday, August 13^th 2017 (8/13/17), at the beginning of Kick Butt Poetry, Thom (with improvisational poetry) was accompanied by people joining him on stage. Kuypers joined them on stage for a humorous haiku challenge, where she said the lines from the theme song for the show “Different Strokes”.

On Sunday, August 14^th 2016 (8/14/16), at the beginning of Kick Butt Poetry, Thom, with improvisational poetry accompanied by people joining him on stage. Kuypers and others join him (Kuypers danced for a few minutes of this performance.

On Sunday, July 31^th 2016 (7/31/16), at the beginning of Kick Butt Poetry, Thom, with improvisational poetry accompanied by people joining him on stage. Kuypers was there to share that Tom had an Expressions Peace show that Saturday (and she has a feature in that show).

On Sunday, July 17^th 2016 (7/17/16), at the beginning of Kick Butt Poetry, Thom, with improvisational poetry accompanied on acoustic guitar from Magic Jack, asked people to join him on stage. Kuypers and others joined him - Kuypers danced and talked for a bit, and John filmed a few minutes of this performance.

On Sunday, July 10^th 2016 (7/10/16), at the beginning of Kick Butt Poetry, Thom, with improvisational poetry accompanied on acoustic guitar from Magic Jack, asked people to join him on stage. Kuypers) and others join him - Kuypers led a few group dance moves, and John filmed a few minutes of this performance.

Kuypers reading James https://youtu.be/sObbHDIisrs Ulysses restaurant scene

Kuypers reading James Joyce Ulysses flower scene

On Tuesday, June 16^th 2015 (6/16/16, or 20150616), Janet Kuypers read portions from “Ulysses” by James Joyce in Bloomsday in Chicago, including a flower shop scene (left) and a restaurant scene (right).

On Sunday, December 7^th 2014 (12/7/14), after 3:00 p.m., Janet Kuypers HAD to stop by the Journey Church in Kenosha WI to create a Vine video (a 6 second long video that repeats itself on line) of her singing a Journey tune in front of the church sign.

On September 10^th 2014, Janet Kuypers talked at her 9/10/14 Chicgo the Café Gallery open mic about the death of Joan Rivers in this YouTube video...

On Saturday, February 5^th 2011 (2/5/11), starting at 10:00pm), Kuypers attended the Cousin Bones show at Gallery Cabaret (2020 N. Oakley Chicago IL), who had a show with musician Mike Sviokla. Because Cousin Bones was performing live music for Kuypers’ March 5^th show in Lake Villa (in the “Visual Nonsense” show letting it all out), Cousin Bones asked Kuypers to start their show with her reading “Death Takes Many Forms”, while Mike Sviokla performed impromptu blues guitar music (and his music sounded great). It is a shame all recorders were in use at Gallery Cabaret that evening, or we would have video from this live impromptu performance to share with you. But the poem “Death Takes Many Forms” is be one of the pieces performed in the 3/5/11 show letting it all out show, so you can check it out there...

    On Sunday, January 30^th 2011 (01/30/11), from 1 to 3:00 p.m., Kuypers danced at the recording of a Tuesday February 22^nd and Wednesday February 23^rd episode pof CAN TV’s “Chic-a-Go-Go” for a number of music performers (including Sid Yiddish)...
    If you missed that that live taping of many musicians for the TV show, see Kuypers dancing in the backgrounds during Youtube video of Treehouse Flavors on Chic-A-Go-Go, Youtube video of Sid Yiddish on Chic-A-Go-Go, Youtube video of Percolator on Chic-A-Go-Go, or even Youtube video of Super 8-Bit Brothers on Chic-A-Go-Go...
    If you do not live in Chicago to see the show live (on cable channel 19), check out youtube for video links to all parts of this show. (In the Bay Area you can watch Chic-a-Go-Go on a different schedule than the Chicago schedule, thanks to 9th Floor Radio every Saturday from 11pm-1am on cable station 27 [Berkeley] and 28 [Oakland]. And you can even watch online through www.9thfloorradio.com)
    Kuypers upload a Sid Yiddish raw video shoot from the show to her facebook page, but most videos were dance footage and were used during the intro for backgrond video footage in her 3/5/11 Visual Nonsense show “letting it all out”.

Kuypers reading Andrew Hettinger at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Champaign

On Friday, May 27^th 2011 (5/27/11), although this is her original writing, it is not at a reading or show event... Kuypers wrote the poem Andrew Hettinger years ago, and wrote in the poem that should would like to find the gravesite... A friend of his brother found the poem a year ago and contacted Kuypers, and when Kuypers was able to get to the town (May 27^th 2011) they met up and went to Andrew Hettinger’s gravesite at St. Mary’s Cemetery. The friend even asked to listen to her reading the poem, so there is now YouTube video of her literally reading the poem Andrew Hettinger to him at his gravesite.

On Monday, January 10^th 2011 (01/10/11), Kuypers was in the video Don’t Cry No Tears from Universal Slim and the Blues Kangaroos (video produced by Fallen Son Entertainment, which was released on youtube Monday, January 10^th 2011, 01/10/11), with Janet Kuypers acting in the female role in this music video (filming for this video was finalized Sunday, October 24^th 2010 in Elgin, Illinois).

On Saturday, October 23^rd 2010 (10/23/10), afternoon, the day before filming for the video Don’t Cry No Tears was finished, Kuypers sat in for a live performance from the band “Universal Slim and the Blues Kangaroos” of the song “Let’s Have Some Fun” — for filming for their live video performance. Check out release number one from their latest album in this video on youtube!.

Join the revolution — Kuypers has had CD track sales in the USA, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

Looking for her past performance art and poetry shows? Find all of the most recent to oldest releases/shows here.

Check out Janet Kuypers’ performances at the Café Gallery for past recordings to see Kuypers reading poetry & prose @ her open mics and poetry shows from 9/03 through 8/15.