Janet Kuypers reads her poem "Death Takes Many Forms" @ Chicago's the Cafe Gallery 1/18/12

On Wednesday January 18th 2012, Janet Kuypers hosted the first open mike night for her regular poetry/performance art open mike should for "the Cafe Gallery" at Gallery Cabaret (2010 North Oakley Ave. in Chicago, one block east of Western Avenue and one block north of Armitage, also right by Milwaukee Ave. and near the Blue line el stop), from 7:00 to 9:00 PM (before the singer/songwriters night, which starts at 9:00 PM). In this 1st installment of the poetry open mike in 2012 at Gallery Cabaret, there was no scheduled feature, so (because there were monitor problems with the computers at Gallery Cabaret, which would normally do the video recording), the host of "the Cafe Gallery"(Janet Kuypers, with assistance from John) filmed the open mike poetry readers. This video is from close to half of the poetry open mike evening.

Kuypers started off the open mike by introducing the new location to the live audience, plus she read her brand new original poem "Games We Play". Then she read from the now sold out 2005 Scars Publications (http://scars.tv) collection book "Chaos Theory", her poem "10 Minutes" from the collection book Then Kuypers read one of her poems from the January 2012 issue (v228) of cc&d magazine (monthly literary/art magazine with the subtitle "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine", published through Scars Publications, http://scars.tv), which was a two-tweet teitter-legnth poem "film the cheerleaders". She then read (from memory) the first poem she ever wrote (and the only one that rhymes that she actually likes) called "Under the Sea". Because it was suggested to her, Kuypers ended the open mike evening by reading (from memory, so it is most definitely not perfect) her poem "Death Takes Many Forms".

There is also a video release of all of the Janet Kypers writing she performed at this poetry open mike i Chicago.

You can always go to http://www.janetkuypers.com for expanded information on her writing, music or performance art (or check her out on twitter, at http://twitter.com/janetkuypers, or on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/janetkuypers, or myspace on http://www.myspace.com/janetkuypers, or even on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/ccandd96).

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