Art is not Meant to be Touched

by Janet Kuypers, Max Andrew, Eric Burbridge

"Art is not meant to be touched" is a poetry and prose collection book from Scars Publications of materials released through cc&d magazine ("Children, Churches and Daddies" magazine, the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) from July through December of 2013 (containing material not only from issues but also from chapbook supplement releases) The release of this book culminates with materials from the 20 year anniversary issue of cc&d. See the books list info at to find the full list of writers and artists in this book.Contributors to this collection book include Janet Kuypers, Max Andrew, W. Scott R. Brownlee, Ronald Brunsky, Eric Burbridge, Emily Calvo, CEE, Michael Ceraolo, Joshua Copeland, Roger Cowin, Tom Curry, Holly Day, Tara Day, Kenneth DiMaggio, Doug Draime, Dan Fitzgerald, Josh Gaines, Pepper Giese, George Gott, Fritz Hamilton, Oz Hardwick, David (Buddha) Hargarten, Greg Harvey, Andy Heath, Wes Heine, Gary Hull, Guy J. Jackson, Dana Jerman, Robert Lawrence, Erren Kelly, Vol Lindsey, Sean J Mahoney, Emilio Maldonado, Bruce Matteson, MCD, Christopher Mulrooney, Erin Neckels, Jerry Pendergast, Andrew H. Oerke, Simon Perchik, Wes Perrin, Richard King Perkins II, Jessica Pilgreen, David S. Pointer, I.B. Rad (IB Rad), John Ragusa, enene Ravesloot, Joe Roarty, William Robinson, Carlos Rojas Jr. (Lcpl Rojas), Caroline N. Simpson, Carol Smallwood, Devon Sova, Dana Stamps, II, Jeff Stinson, Bob Strother, Will C. Superior, R. N. Taber, David J. Thompson, Mel Waldman, Darcy Wilmoth, Kelley Jean White MD, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Neal Wilgus, and Wendy C. Williford, with art by Aaron Wilder, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowiczs, David Michael Jackson, David J. Thompson, Cheryl Townsend, the HA!man of South Africa, Peter LaBerge, Eric Bonholtzer, Rex Bromfield, Rose E. Grier and Brian Forrest.

374 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 2013

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.