[pa-info] Asylum update (06/29/07)

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The weekend is almost here and with it comes some great Asylum poetry.
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Fundraising Update

[image: stacked coins] Last Sunday, June 24th, we held our first *Art
Supporting Art* event with an art sale and silent auction. The work of a
dozen artists were available for both immediate purchase and auction
bidding. At the end of the night we had raised over $750 toward the team
expenses. We greatly appreciate all those who helped make this quickly put
together event a success. We hope you will join us on July 15th for the
annual Asylum Auction.

Many thanks to the artists who donated their work: Liz Heath, Gary Hoare,
Cynthia Keeley, Mareh Labenski, Dave Macpherson, Heather Macpherson, Bill
MacMillan, Sou MacMillan, Kaley Parenteau, Brian Sampson, Andrew Watt and
Jon Wolf.

Thanks to Cowboy Matt for providing music during the afternoon.

We would also like to acknowledge the contributions and support of Ballard
Street Poetry Journal, Trevor Byrne-Smith, Erin Jackson, the Java Hut,
Victor Infante, Leighann Killea, Pharmaceutically Gifted, Eric Urban and the
Worcester Telegram &
Gazette<http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/NEWS/702010349/1111>(and
reporter Pam Sacks).
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Shakti Women's Writing Pact - Every Saturday Afternoon

If you are a woman who writes you should join the Shakti Women's Writing
Pact. Shakti was created with the intention of enhancing women's sense of
belonging within the poetry community through the an unmoderated writing
circle.

Shakti meets every Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.at the Java Hut (1073A Main
Street, Worcester). For more information please contact Sou MacMillan
at twobunny
at earthlink.net <twobunny at eathlink.net>.
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Coming up on Sunday, July 1st

Please join the Poets' Asylum this week for a feature by *Jacob
Rakovan*(aka Ohio Jake). Rakovan won Outstanding Screenplay in Texas's
2006 24PS
film festival for "My Electric Bill", Another short entitled "Take This
Ring" is currently in production. He served as editor to the arts magazine *
Bacchus* and the *Portsmouth Free Press* and was a founding member of the
now defunct Southern Ohio Underground Poetry and Spoken Word Collective.

Come on down to the Java Hut, 1073A Main Street in Worcester. The sign-up
list goes up around 7:00 p.m. and the open mic will start sometime after
that. The feature follows the open mic. No cover; please bring a few bucks
for the bucket to support the feature and to buy a tasty beverage in support
of the venue.
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June 24th Revisited

Excellent evening at the Asylum this week with a lively audience and poetry
galore. On tap this week was a book reading by some of the poets whose work
appears in Look! Up In the Sky! <http://www.lulu.com/content/562064> - an
anthology of comic book poetry. Worcester poets were well represented in the
collection and almost a dozen of them came out for this event. It was great
to hear the diverse voices and view points centered around a common theme.
All the money raised in the bucket pass this week will be donated to the
Fenway Community Health Center in memory of Lisa King.
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The Poets' Asylum is in its fifteenth year of bringing the best in
Performance and Slam Poetry to Central Massachusetts and beyond.

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