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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

Order either iTunes track: from Chaots in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD: CD:

Listen to the CD recording for the 06/11/02 performance art show 6/11

Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set

Watch this YouTube video 1:22, at the First Chicago bldg. 07/14/07

Listen to this with the Second Axing

Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life

(1:48) from the show 6/11 06/11/02 from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02

Listen to this live recording from the book Urbanation release show

Watch this YouTube video live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99

Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

Watch this YouTube video live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/14/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD Torture & Triumph ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 2/13/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of 4 mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where Janet Kuypers reads this poem in a “last minute” mini-feature

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem New to Chicago live 5/22/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem New to Chicago live 5/22/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/22/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem New To Chicago (from the book Chaotic Elements) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poetry from assorted books at the 2013 Chicago Book Expo (S) - WITH THIS POEM

See YouTube video live of Janet Kuypers reading her poem New To Chicago from memory 10/8/15 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa at Uncommon Ground in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Entering the Lake of Fire & New To Chicago from memory 10/8/15 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa at Uncommon Ground in Chicago (Cfs)

new to chicago I’m still new to this city I know, I know, I’ve been here for years but I haven’t gone to the Sears Tower Observatory since my Junior Prom but when I walk by the First Chicago building the beams along the north side sloping up, parabolic pillars curving up to the sky when I walk by the First Chicago building I walk up along the side and lean up against one of the sloping pillars press my body against the cold concrete feel the cold against my chin, my breasts, by thighs and look up along the curve, stretching up towards the sky you know, these pillars look like race tracks and I could see something come rushing down that curve a matchbox car, a race car a marble, a bowling ball a two-ton weight I see the speed, the power, and it almost makes me afraid to look up and every time I walk by the First Chicago building I do the same thing, I do this little ritual and it feels like the first time Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

Watch the YouTube video below (or click on the video image to view this video in another window) (1:42) read the the First Chicago building (Chicago, 07/14/07)