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Below are videos from a November 20, 2011 (11/20/11, or 20111120) evening of poetry
and prose readings, with the Janet Kuypers feature “hmm” at the Café...





before her feature during the open mike (hosted by John Yotko), Janet Kuypers reads her poem
Made Any Difference
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the entire Janet Kuypers feature performance
“hmmm”
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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago




Below are the pieces performed (in the order they were performed):

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Here Is Me
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Upstage Everyone Else
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Painted Buddhas
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Janet Kuypers reading her short prose
Letter 09/16/06
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Became a Jungle
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Refuse in a Single Church
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein
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Janet Kuypers reading her short prose
In The Projects
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Eternal Struggle
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
That’s from the Barbed Wire
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Carrying Me Through
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
You’ve Killed Me
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
On a High Horse Like This
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Janet Kuypers singing her poem
Made Any Difference
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Added Bonus...

Bob Rashkow reads his cc&d 3/12 poem
Twin Peaks
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There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Cafe, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live poerformances are included in Live at the Cafe includes not only recordings from 2003, 2004 and 2005, but it also contains recordings of two performance art shows — A Night of Firsts from 13/22/04, and Stripped from 11/20/05. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Coffee Chicago, Molly Malone s, and even recordings from the Chicago Poetry Fest on both years, 2004 and 2005! You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations.

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Live at the Cafe - 3 disc set




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