Come join the fun at the Poets' Asylum this week for our regular open mic and a feature by Logan Phillips. Phillips writes from the most intricate and deeply set valve of his heart. His words are bilingual, binational and accessible to all. He breaks borders with his breath and rips down walls with words. His poetry melts cultures into people, languages into pure communication and races into humanity. He is the young voice of the southwest. His work is like no other in the poetry scene from style to subject matter he is perfectly unique. His performance is passionate as his words simply take him over. You will not be the same person after hearing him speak. Visit dirtyverbs.com for a sample of his work.

Please join us at The Q Cafe (362 Chandler Street, Worcester). The open mic sign-up list goes out around 7:00 p.m. and the reading starts closer to 7:30 p.m. No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to support the feature.

Support Your Team!

The Poets' Asylum would like to produce a new t-shirt this year as part of our fundraising efforts. In order to do that we need to clear out some of our existing inventory. We have an assortment of the 2007 shirts with the graphic to the left on the front of the shirt in both light blue and bright orange. Available sizes on the light blue shirt are medium & large and on the bright orange shirt we have extra large and 3XL. We have reduced the price on these shirts to $8. We also have a number of the iWPS '05 logo t-shirts available. These are available in large, extra large and 2XL. These shirts are available for $5 each. In additional we still have an assortment of prior year Asylum Anthologies, all priced at $5 each. The shirts & anthologies are available at the Sunday night reading or for purchase online. If you would like to have a shirt set aside for you please drop an email to fundraising @ poetsasylum.org with the size you would like and when you will pick it up. Thank you in advance for your continued support!

It was a fairly quiet night at the Asylum this week - folks must have been off celebrating with their mothers. Those who attended witnessed the debut of our new co-host, Liz Heath, at the mic. She did a great job. Thanks to the four competitors who took part in the Cash Slam and congratulations to Joe for winning. He went home with 60% of the bucket based on his lucky card draw.

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