[pa-info] Asylum update (04/09/09)

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Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. Visit poetsasylum.org to see what other
poetic events are taking place this weekend in the area. Here are a couple
of highlights.
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Friday Night @ Worcester Storyteller

*Worcester Storytellers* meets on the second Friday of each month at the
Village Arts Gallery (1 Ekman Street, Worcester). The reading starts at 8:00
p.m. There will be an open mic followed by a feature from *Rushelle Frazier*,
host of Worcester's newest weekly poetry reading. Rushelle was also recently
elected to the board of the Worcester County Poetry Association.

Worcester Storytellers never charges a cover. They do ask you to throw some
money into the basket to support the artists who feature. For more info
please contact dave...<http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=0142vZ8WHctS5HzS0kHjzbGQ==&c=tkV-A-OQyxR5XEE0wLbdiUKkWEHb0B3P8QLQPSkaQrM=>
@aol.com.
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Coming up on Sunday, April 12th

[image: Michael Brown] This week the *Poets' Asylum* welcomes *Michael Brown
* back to our stage. Brown has published poetry, fiction, travel articles
and columns in wide-ranging periodicals all over the world. His fourth book
of poetry, *The Confidence Man*, was published in 2006 by Ragged Sky. In
May, 2007, Brown and his partner Valerie Lawson moved to Robbinston in Down
East Maine, the easternmost point in the USA, where they have been granted
the editorial and publishing privileges for *Off the Coast*, a poetry
journal founded by Arlene and George V. Van Deventer 14 years ago.

Join us at Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester). The
reading starts at *6:00 p.m.* No cover; please throw some money in the
bucket to support the feature.

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Fundraising News

Slammaster Bill MacMillan has posted a letter in his blog about the need for
fundraising in support of the 2009 Worcester Slam Team. You can read a copy
of it in our blog, http://community.livejournal.com/poetsa
sylum/<http://community.livejournal.com/poetsasylum/89408.html>
.

Our short term goal is $1000 by April 26th. As of April 5th $155 has been
raised.

[image: Get Acrobat
Reader]<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html>A PDF copy
of the pledge sheet is available
here <http://poetsasylum.org/2009_pledge_sheet.pdf> You will need Adobe
Acrobat Reader to open and print the file. There are 2 pledge sheets per
page. We really appreciate any and all support the community is able to
provide.
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Sunday, April 5th Revisited

Four competitors took part in the *Blue Collar Slam* this week sharing their
poems on work or working. At the end of the math exercise *Simone
Beaubien*took the prize due to a massive time penalty against Mike
McGee. Thanks to
everyone who came out and shared their words in the open and slam.
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The Poets' Asylum is in its eighteenth year of bringing the best in
Performance and Slam Poetry to Central Massachusetts and beyond.

Find us online at http://poetsasylum.org/.

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