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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting
from the Poets' Asylum. Come see Joe Fusco Jr. on Sunday - he's a hoot!<br></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, June 10</font></td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Cowboy Matt Hopewell</b> @ the Street Beat (WCPA Offices, 1
Ekman
Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Friday, June 11</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, June 12</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">10:30 a.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">pre-Bloomsday reading of <i>Ulysses</i> (Episode 12) @ the 12
Crane
Street complex in Southbridge
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, June 13</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">2:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Joe Fusco Jr.</b> @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></font>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Monday, June 14</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>Jamal "Versiz" May</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">Thursday, June 10</font></td>
<td valign="top" 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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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, June 13th @ the
Poets' Asylum</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/Joe_Fusco.jpg" alt="Joe Fusco Jr." title="Come see Joe Fusco Jr. on June 13th!" width="160" align="right" height="120" hspace="5">
The <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a>
continues its round up of area poets with supermarket guy and funny man <b>Joe
Fusco Jr.</b> Joe's been gracing area stages with his poetry for years,
offering up his common sense wisdom and humor. His poems usually
involve
ordinary events that concern his family and/or friends with a slight
twist. Joe
also writes songs and performs with the non-musical group the
<i>Inflatables</i>. His work has been published regularly in Worcester
Mag, as
well as Worcester Review, Sacred Fools, and the erotic e-zine Clean
Sheets.
Joe has a new CD called " Funny Stuff."</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Come down
to Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street,
Worcester). The sign-up list goes out at 6:00 p.m. and the reading
starts by
6:30. No cover; donations accepted to pay the feature.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">June 6th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets'
Asylum had a fun reading this week with a much
smaller open than last week :-) and a feature by the members of the 2010
Worcester Youth Poetry Slam Team. Alice Beecher, Eric Devenney, Kendel
Joseph,
Taylor Liljegren and Anna Meehan shared some really wonderful work with
Kendel
and Taylor kicking off the feature with a dual-voice piece. Each of the
team
members performed two individual poems as well. They each have some
solid work
in their repertoire and with lots of practice and memorization they'll
make a
strong showing at the <a href="http://www.bravenewvoices.org/" target="_blank">Brave New Voices International Youth Festival</a> in
July.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Youth
Poetry Slam Team is looking for funds to pay for
travel expenses. If you would like to make a donation please visit <a href="http://worcesteryouthslam.com/" target="_blank">worcesteryouthslam.com</a>
for info how to make a donation via PayPal or through the WCPA.</font></p>
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