[pa-info] Asylum update (12/10/09)

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Greeting from the Poets' Asylum.
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Poetry Round-up

Here's a quick snapshot of the poetry events taking place in Central
Massachusetts during the next 8 days.
 Thursday, Dec. 10 7:00 p.m.
Jingle Mingle @ The Street Beat (1 Ekman Street, Worcester)
9:00 p.m.
The After Nine Poetry Series <http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/>  Friday,
Dec. 11 10:00 a.m.
Shrewsbury Senior Writers @ Shrewsbury Senior Center
(100 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury)
7:00 p.m.
Worcester Youth/Clark UNIFIED Poetry Slam @ Clark University, Higgins Center
(950 Main Street, Worcester)
8:00 p.m.
Worcester Storytellers (1 Ekman Street, Worcester)  Sunday, Dec. 13 6:00
p.m.
*8-Minute Speech Slam * @ the Poets' Asylum <http://poetsasylum.org/>  Monday,
Dec. 14 7:00 p.m.
*Nataly Garcia* @ The Little "a" Poetry Series<http://theqma.wordpress.com/>
9:00 p.m.
*Max Kessler* @ the Dirty Gerund Poetry Show <http://dirtygerund.com/>
 Thursday,
Dec. 17 9:00 p.m.
*Danielle Cariveau* @ The After Nine Poetry
Series<http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/>
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Coming up on Sunday, December 13th

This week we're trying something new at the Poets'
Asylum<http://poetsasylum.org/>with the
TED <http://www.ted.com/> conference inspired *8-Minute Speech Slam*. This
will be a one round slam with a invitational slate of 7 competitors plus one
wild card slot for someone present that night who is prepared to take part.
Each person will perform the "speech of their life" about some topic they
find deeply important, personal or just plain enriching. Performances will
be judges by audience members and the winner of the night will head home
with some bragging rights (and a prize of some sort if we can figure out
something appropriate).

Come on down to Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester). The
sign-up list goes out by 6:00 p.m. and the reading starts by 6:30 p.m. No
cover; please put some money in the bucket to support reading.
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December 6th Revisited

We had a good reading this week with the regular open mic and the *Head-to-Head
Haiku Deathmatch*. Only two people decided to take part in the slam, Nick
Davis and Gary Hoare. We went with a best of 11 rounds approach so the first
poet to receive 6 wins would take home the prize. The slam ended up running
all eleven rounds and darn near had a tie. Host Danny Balel called it with
Nick receiving the final win and the $10 prize. It was a fun, if shorter
than normal, night.
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Photo Gallery Update

[image: Photo Album] On December 5th and 6th we uploaded nine new photo sets
of features from the past four months to the 2009 Albums. Check out the
photos of Jeff Stumpo, Lara Bozabalian, David Perez, Scott Woods, Corrina
Bain, Mark Palos and Ryan McLellan, Rob Sturma, Rachel McKibbens and Tui
Scanlan.

All these photos, and many more, can be found by visiting
poetsasylum.organd clicking the Photo Gallery button on the left.
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