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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting
from the Poets' Asylum.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Poetry Round-up</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Here's a
quick snapshot of the poetry events taking place in
Central Massachusetts during the next week.</font></p>
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<td valign="top" width="135"><font size="2">Thursday, May 6</font></td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">The Little "a" Poetry Series (Dr. Gonzo's
All-Natural Mega-Spicy Comestible Emporium, 122 Main Street,
Worcester)</font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Friday, May 7</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">10:00 a.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Shrewsbury Senior Writers @ the Shrewsbury Senior Center (100
Maple
Avenue, Shrewsbury)</font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Saturday, May 8</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>The Encyclopedia Show</b> @ Brown University, Salomon 101,
Brown &
Waterman Streets, Providence, RI
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, May 9</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">6:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Bob Gill</b> @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/http;//poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets'
Asylum</a></font>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Monday, May 10</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Matt Gano</b> @ the <a href="http://dirtygerund.com/" target="_blank">Dirty Gerund Poetry Show</a></font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Wednesday, May 12</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">6:30 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Worcester Youth Poetry Slam meets Dickinson's Ribbons</b> @
Beaman
Memorial Public Library (8 Newton Street, West Boylston)
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Thursday, May 13</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
<td><font size="2"> </font></td>
<td><font size="2">The Little "a" Poetry Series (Dr. Gonzo's
All-Natural Mega-Spicy Comestible Emporium, 122 Main Street,
Worcester)</font></td>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, May 9th @ the
Poets' Asylum</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/bobgill-sm.png" alt="Bob Gill" title="Bob Gill will be our feature on May 9th" width="109" align="right" border="0" height="125">
This Sunday, May 9th, the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/http;//poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets'
Asylum</a> will hold our usual poetry open mic followed
by a feature from <b>Bob Gill</b>. Bob began attending the Sunday night
reading in '99 and soon discovered that performance poetry was a heck of
a lot
more interesting than channel surfing his way through the evening hours.
As
time went by Bob began to help organize the reading and currently serves
as
treasurer & webmaster for <a href="http://poetsasylum.org">poetsasylum.org</a>. He has featured in venues
in central
& western Massachusetts and Providence, RI. His work has been
published in
<a href="http://ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com/" target="_blank">Ballard
Street
Poetry Journal</a> and the anthologies of the Poets' Asylum.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We hope
you'll check out one of our regulars by coming down
to Jumpin' Juice & Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester) on Sunday
night. The
sign-up list goes out by 6:00 p.m. and the reading starts by 6:30 p.m.
No
cover however please put some money in the bucket; it is how we pay our
features.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20th Anniversary
Celebration - May 30th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/20thAnniversary-sm.png" title="Help
us celebrate 20 years of the Poets' Asylum on May 30th!" alt="20th
Anniversary logo" align="right" hspace="5">
Twenty years ago the first National Poetry Slam fielded just 2 teams and
the
world wide web was just a glimmer of an idea. Oh yeah, and some fans of
performance poetry started to meet in Worcester and founded the Poets'
Asylum.
While we've been packing 2010 with local features to celebrate the
diverse
voices that the Poets' Asylum has produced we decided to set aside one
day, May
30th, to give as many people as possible a chance to take to the mic.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Whether you
once considered yourself a regular at the Poets'
Asylum or if you read only once and remember the cheer when you were
asked if
it was your first time we invite you to come back. If, like your
webmaster,
listening is your thing we hope you'll join us as well. If you are
visiting
from out of state or coming a long distance to take part please let us
know in
advance so we can save a spot for you. Drop an e-mail to <a href="mailto:webmaster@poetsasylum.org">webmaster @ poetsasylum . org</a>
and
let us know your plans.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">May 2nd Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We had a
good reading this week at the Asylum where our
feature was one of our co-hosts, <b>Liz Heath</b>. Liz capped both ends
of her
set with solid, off-page work and filled the middle with tasty paper
& screen
readings other pieces. From "Size 26" through "Battlecry" she shared
her words
and emotions with us. Along the way she passed along a few anecdotes
about her
work, her family and her love of poetry. It was a fine night from not
only a
heck of an organizer but a strong poet. Thanks Liz.</font></p>
<center><hr width="50%"></center><center><h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">What
We've Been Up To</font></h3></center>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you haven't made it to the Poets'
Asylum in a while check out the
video we posted on our website and Facebook to get a quick look
at the features you've
missed.
Also we uploaded seven new photo sets of features from the past
several
months to the 2010 Albums. Check out the photos of Marc Marcel,
Khary
Jackson, Tony Brown, Gary Hoare, Alex Charalambides, Lea
Deschenes and
Jackie Morrill.</font></p>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All these photos, and many more, can
be found by visiting <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">poetsasylum.org</a>
and
clicking the Photo Gallery button on the left.</font></p><center><hr width="75%"></center>
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online at <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">http://poetsasylum.org/</a>.</font></p>
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