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Watch this YouTube video or listen from iTunes: live 10/21/03 in her show the Other Side at theCafé in Chicago

Or watch the complete video of The Other Side live, including this poem in Chicago 10/21/03 (37:01)

Watch this YouTube video read 11/30/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video from 4/29/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Type “A” Person”, then her poems “Venture to the Unknown” and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” toward the end of the Austin 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video from 4/29/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Type “A” Person”, then her poems “Venture to the Unknown” and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” toward the end of the Austin 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

venture to the unknown I’ve always loved the idea of being in outer space, so when my chance came to be a part of a crew to explore a foreign land to do what no man has done before I I jumped at the chance People ask me what it’s like to be in space, see a new planet. it’s hard to explain all of the details, there are so many you forget, like when you see the sun in the sky, you even see Earth in the distance, it is still dark where you are. the Earth’s atmosphere makes the sun’s light omnidirectional but here the sky is black too, even during daylight. Without the Earth’s atmosphere the stars are always out, there are so many stars in the sky, so many asteroids, you can even see the dust in the air. The Earth’s atmosphere is insulation that stops us from seeing all in the universe. They create gravity in parts of the space stations to help people acclimate themselves but in some stations you have to always hold your equipment because it can float away and when we go for mission walks every step disturbs the land dust and dirt explodes with every motion it’s a fragile, delicate balance we try to strike when we venture out into the unknown Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.