The Curve of Arctic Air

by Janet Kuypers, David James, Louie Clay

"the Curve of Arctic Air" is a 2015 Scars Publications' cc&d magazine (v253) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religios, NON-family oriented literart and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1993, but since 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. With ISBN#s for issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Writers and artists in this book include writing by Janet Kuypers, Richard King Perkins II, David S. Pointer, Edee Lemonier, David James, Louie Clay, Tom Schaffer, Marianne Szlyk, CEE, R. N. Taber, Kenneth DiMaggio, Sheryl L. Nelms, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Erren Kelly, Ronald Charles Epstein, T. Allen Culpepper, Ralph Monday, I.B. Rad, Simon Perchik, Aditya Shankar, Oz Hardwick, Alan Catlin, Jane Stuart, David J. Thompson, Catherine B. Krause, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Daniel S. Weinberg, Eric Burbridge, Ean Bevel, Matt LeShay, Mark Herden, Marilyn June Janson, Daniel Stockwell, Robert Finch, John Amendall, Harry Noussias, Joshua Copeland, Bob Strother, and Betty J. Sayles, along with art from the HA!Man of South Africa, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI, David J. Thompson, David Michael Jackson, Peter LaBerge, Rex Bromfield, Cheryl Townsend, Aaron Wilder, Brian Forrest, Brian & Lauren Hosey, David J. Thompson, and Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz.

108 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2015

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.