Prominent Pen

by Janet Kuypers, Linda Webb Aceto, Tom Ball

"Prominent Pen" is a poetry and prose collection book of materials from the May through the August 2011 issues of "Down in the Dirt" magazine ( published through Scars Publications. Writers included in this collection are from around the United States, with Linda Webb Aceto, Karen Alea, Jason Austin, Tom Ball, Marie Barry, Kyrsten Bean, Christina Bejjani, Aaron Bragg, Danielle Bredy, Holly Day, Jack Bristow, Mark Chrisinger, Allie Claus, Karen Delasala, Nicholas Conley, Roger Cowin, Rebecca L. Dupree, Harold W Eppley, Kim Farleigh, Terry Ferrell, Tom Fillion, Carys Goodwin, Fritz Hamilton, Christopher Hanson, Laine Hissett-Bonard, J.D. Isip, Malachi King, Ash Krafton, Janet Kuypers, Peter LaBerge, Robert Levin, Ben Macnair, Ally Malinenko, Sarah Mallery, Denny E. Marshall, Justis Mills, Sheryl L. Nelms, Elizabeth Mitchell, Alicia Parks, Lam Pham, Victor Phan, Megan Price, John Rachel, John Ragusa, Emma Eden Ramos, Matthew Roberts, Edward Rodosek, Iftekhar Sayeed, Sarah Scharnweber, Carl Scharwath, Richard Shelton, John Silvio, Jasmyne Suggs, Micah Thorstenson, Toni M. Todd, Clinton Van Inman, Mel Waldman, Mitchell Waldman , Kelley Jean White MD, Lucie M. Winborne, and Caleb Yarborough.

324 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2011

About the author

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.