[pa-info] Asylum update (10/29/09)

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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, Oct. 29 7:00 p.m.
Fall Harvest Poetry Festival @ Quinsigamond Community College,
Harrington Learning Center (670 West Boylston Street Worcester)
9:00 p.m.
Little "a" Showcase & a Costume Slam @ The After Nine Poetry
Series<http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/>  Friday,
Oct. 30 10:00 a.m.
Shrewsbury Senior Writers @ Shrewsbury Senior Center
(100 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury)
6:00 p.m.
Worcester Youth Poetry Slam workshop @ WCPA office
(1 Ekman Street, Worcester)  Sunday, Nov. 1 6:00 p.m.
Jack McCarthy @ the Poets' Asylum <http://poetsasylum.org/>  Monday,
Nov. 2 7:00
p.m.
Tim Mason @ The Little "a" Poetry Series <http://theqma.wordpress.com/>
7:30 p.m.
Beth Sweeney @ the First Monday Poetry Series (First Unitarian Church, 90
Main Street, Worcester)
9:00 p.m.
Mark Palos and Ryan McLellan @ the Dirty Gerund Poetry
Show<http://dirtygerund.com/>  Thursday,
Nov. 5 9:00 p.m.
The After Nine Poetry Series <http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/>


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Coming up on Sunday, November 1st

One of our favorite poets is coming to the area on tour and he'll be the
feature at the Poets' Asylum tonight. *Jack McCarthy* is a working guy from
the Boston area who's been writing poetry since the mid-60s. He'd been
averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93, when two things happened.
First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him into attending a workshop with
Galway Kinnell; then he brought his daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the
open mike at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping she'd
get excited about poetry. Jack was the one who got hooked. He doesn't think
of himself as a "performance poet," but as a "standup poetry guy," a writer
of poems that perform themselves.

Please join us at Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester).
The sign-up list goes out by 6:00 p.m. and the reading starts around 6:30
p.m. No cover; please put some money in the bucket to support the feature.
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October 25th Revisited

Thanks to those you came out this past Sunday for the regular poetry open
mic and an *open slam*. Only three poets took part in the slam - Jackie,
Danny and Anna. The judges were tough but fair and at the end of two rounds
we had a winner... *Jackie*. She took home the $10 cash prize.
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