Mercury Cafe feature, 08/09/08

August 9^th, 2008 (08/09/08)

poetry readings from the Final Jump (with poetry about violence in America and suicide) in a collection of poems called the Final Jump.

Janet Kuypers was be one of the poets featured at Mercury Cafe (1505 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago; scheduled appearance at 4:30-4:40), at her second appearance at Mega poetry (similar in length to her 02/16/08 performance with 1989-2007 mega poetry). A lot of poems in this collection will be talking about violence in America; people’s opinions on gun control, people jumping to the deaths, or even people talking about depression in this disturbing set of poems (and you can also read the pieces read in this show with the release of the chapbook “the Final Jump”).

Janet Kuyper and Cathleen Schandelmeier of Beach Poets, after readings at Mercury Cafe

enjoy the full video
of the entire show

(13:33)

This film is from
the Internet Archive

...on to the poems:
(in the order they were read during the show)
...Because of the light from outside affecting the quality of the video, included on this page are a few photos of Kuypers as she was listening to other poets reading at Mercury Cafe during the day-long poetry festival.

Thirteen Seconds

(2:04, live)

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 08/09/08

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Filled With Such Panic

(2:04, live)

1:23, vocals track 04/21/08

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 08/09/08

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photo of Kuypers while listening to poetry at Mercury Cafe

Letter 04/14/96 three

(3:10, live)

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 08/09/08

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Kill Yourself

(1:55, live)

1:39, vocals track 05/18/07

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 08/09/08

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photo of Kuypers while listening to poetry at Mercury Cafe

Accounts for the Need
of Gun Control

(2:31 , live)

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 08/09/08

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Change My Perspective

(1:39, live)

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Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 08/09/08

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photo of Kuypers while listening to poetry at Mercury Cafe