Chicago Stories 2000 is book 5 of my 13-book series Complete Performance Work 1996-2004, collecting up all 400 slam poems, monologues and dialogues I wrote in those years for the very first time. In this particular case, 2000 covers the year I first started getting more into the administrative side of performance poetry rather than the artistic side, and also when my creative interests first started shifting away from poetry and into travel.