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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 poetry 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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	Falling Into Place by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Publisher), Brian Hosey, Michael Ceraolo 4.89 avg rating — 18 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
	Prominent Pen by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Linda Webb Aceto, Tom Ball 4.83 avg rating — 6 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
	Bare Minimum by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Jim Long, Eric Burbridge 4.80 avg rating — 5 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
	Home at Last by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Publisher), Bokley Browne, Allan Onik 4.80 avg rating — 5 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
	Literary Town Hall by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Publisher), J. Kent Allred, David Thompson 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	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 it was amazing 5.00 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
	Wait Until Dark by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Publisher), Alan Catlin, Brian Grafton it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	cc&d Magazine, Volume 254: Idea (March/April 2015) by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Erren Kelly, I.B. Rad 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	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
	Close Cover Before Striking 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996	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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