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Listen to the 33:37 WZRD 88.3fm Radio show, or see a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day), “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11, the 1833 birthday of Robert G. Ingersoll), her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” and her poem “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, National Aviation Day), “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day), “Value of What Money Does” (written 8/24, the 1967 date when, led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party disrupted New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills on the trading floor), “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” (for 8/24, Pluto Demoted Day), “Ominous Day” (for the 8/24 79 A.D. date of the Mount Vesuvius eruption), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi), “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” (for the 9/1/79 date the Pioneer spacecraft visits Saturn), “No One Will Forget” (for the 9/3/44 date Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last 3-day train from the Westerbork transit camp to theAuschwitz concentration camp), “One With Wildlife” (written 9/4, on National Wildlife Day), “Visiting and Seeing the Signs” (for Grandparents Day, the 1st Sunday after Labor Day), and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, (for 9/17, Constitution Day), recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book”, “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Use Your Mind”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, “Ominous Day”, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Effigy”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “No One Will Forget”, “One With Wildlife”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi) and “Voyager” (written for the August 25, 2012 date NASA’s Voyager 1 started the Interstellar Mission into the unknown), and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” and “Voyager”, and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her event poems “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Judged on Looks”, “Know Peace and Rise to Power”, “Otherwise Reigned Supreme”, “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky”, & “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” of never before read poems from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” that also appear in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” at Prost Alehouse during the 2025 Poetry Bomb on 4/27/25 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Everyone is to Blame Janet Kuypers 8/31/19, day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; day in 1987 Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi we struggle for our lives at our own peril women, in history, have had a hard history those who have fought hard to make it on their own the only way they knew how — sometimes had it worse, until their safety was in peril, what, for walking down the street; what, for trying to trust a strange man but does it matter how any of these women are killed, by a murderer or by paparazzi for rich or poor, famous or hated, we all have to watch our backs for this violence, everyone is to blame

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