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Janet Kuypers

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Chicago native Janet Kuypers is a professional performance artist and publisher, and is a writer, an art director, webmaster and photographer, running Scars Publications (http://scars.tv), where she edits two literary magazines ("cc&d" and "Down in the Dirt"), releasing books, chapbooks, lists performance art shows and releases videos. She was even the final featured poetry performer of 15 poets with a 10-minute feature at the 2006 Society of Professional Journalism Expo's Chicago Poetry Showcase. This certified minister is even the reverend.

She sang with the acoustic bands "Mom's Favorite Vase" and "Weeds and Flowers", and on occasion she still performs in "the Second Axing", and does music sampling. Kuypers has over 90 books of her po Chicago native Janet Kuypers is a professional performance artist and publisher, and is a writer, an art director, webmaster and photographer, running Scars Publications (http://scars.tv), where she edits two literary magazines ("cc&d" and "Down in the Dirt"), releasing books, chapbooks, lists performance art shows and releases videos. She was even the final featured poetry performer of 15 poets with a 10-minute feature at the 2006 Society of Professional Journalism Expo's Chicago Poetry Showcase. This certified minister is even the reverend.

She sang with the acoustic bands "Mom's Favorite Vase" and "Weeds and Flowers", and on occasion she still performs in "the Second Axing", and does music sampling. Kuypers has over 90 books of her poetry, prose, and art published and over 40 audio CD sets released and is published in books, magazines and on the internet thousands of times for her writing and artwork in her professional career. This multiple Pushcart Prize nominee has been profiled in such magazines as Nation and Discover U, - she also won the award for a Poetry Ambassador and was nominated as Poet of the Year. She has also been highlighted in newspapers and on radio stations and has also appeared on television for poetry repeatedly.

She turned her writing into performance art on her own and with musical groups, and ran a monthly Podcast of her work for years, as well mixed JK Radio -- an Internet radio station -- into Scars Internet Radio (radio stations ran 2005-2009, and there are plans to start the radio stations again in 2011). She ran the Chaotic Radio show through BZoO.org and chaoticarts.org (2006-2007). She has performed spoken word and music across the country - in the spring of 1998 she embarked on a national poetry tour, with featured performances, among other venues, at the Albuquerque Spoken Word Festival during the National Poetry Slam; her bands have had concerts in Chicago and in Alaska; in 2003 she hosted and performed at a weekly poetry and music open mike (called Sing Your Life), and from 2002 through 2005 performed quarterly performance art. From 2010-2015 Janet Kuypers hosted the weekly and bi-weekly Chicago poetry open mic "the Cafe Gallery" (http://scars.tv/thecafe), with YouTub videos and a weekly poetry podcast.

You can see video links and short poems as tweets at http://twitter.com/janetkuypers, and all of her book releases and video releases from the Cafe and her performance art shows can be seen at http://www.facebook.com/janetkuypers, but to ever learn more about her you can see her publishing organization, Scars Publications, online at http://scars.tv, or you can learn about her at http://www.janetkuypers.com. ...more

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	Prominent Pen by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Linda Webb Aceto , Tom Ball 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art is not Meant to be Touched by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Max Andrew , Eric Burbridge 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bare Minimum by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Jim Long , Eric Burbridge 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Live at Cafe Aloha 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down in the Dirt Magazine, Volume 123: Home at Last (May/June 2014) by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Bokley Browne , Allan Onik 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope Chest in the Attic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	the Periodic Table of Poetry: poetry for every element in the Periodic Table it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Post-Apocalyptic 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adolph Hitler O.J. Simpson and U.S. Politics 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Woman. 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing (pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It is hardly fair for the author to "review" a book they have written, but it has been a wonderful experience going to open mics and reading portions of this book to live audiences recently. The web page for this book lists not only links to all of t ...more
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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing (pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It is hardly fair for the author to "review" a book they have written, but it has been a wonderful experience going to open mics and reading portions of this book to live audiences recently. The web page for this book lists not only links to all of t ...more
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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing the Periodic Table of Poetry: poetry for every element in the Periodic Table by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a collection of poems written (from 2012-2015) for every element in the Periodic Table (plus bonus element poems, and bonus poems about some compouds) from Janet Kuypers. During the year she wrote thee poems, all of her Chicago poetry feature ...more
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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing (pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It is hardly fair for the author to "review" a book they have written, but it has been a wonderful experience going to open mics and reading portions of this book to live audiences recently. The web page for this book lists not only links to all of t ...more
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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing Revealed by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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It is hardly fair for the author to "review" a book they have written, but it has been a wonderful experience going to open mics and reading portions of this book to live audiences recently. The web page for this book lists not only links to all of t ...more
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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing Partial Nudity by Janet Kypers	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
All of the short poems also have YouTube video links after the poems, and since we did a book release feature in Chicago the day the book was released (with 40+ poems - mostly haiku poems - read by assorted people to music), I have updated the book c ...more
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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing Under the Sea (photo book) by Jant Kuypers	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a fun book of images of many animals around the globe. The poem in the book is about all sorts of aquatic animals, and it's an entertaining read... For the price (for a full color picture book, it's a great price!) it's a great little book to ...more
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Janet Kuypers rated a book it was amazing Burn Through Me by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is an interesting collection of Kuypers' writing that has been preformed (either on Cd or life) with music from Francois Le Roux - the HA!Man of South Africa. Some of the pieces in the book were actually written for their huge show i Chicago 10/ ...more
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