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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Welcome to the weekly newsletter from the Poets' Asylum. There's a lot of exciting stuff happening with the Poets' Asylum. Read on for some of the info and visit us Sunday night!<br>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, June 1st</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This week at the <u>Poets' Asylum</u> we welcome Cantab
Slammaster and member of the 2008 Cantab Slam team, <b>Simone Beaubien</b>.
Beaubien, an eight-year-veteran of the New England poetry scene, makes her home
in suburban Massachusetts, working as an EMT and hosting the Boston Poetry Slam
at the Cantab Lounge. She has competed at five National Poetry Slams since
2001 and has performed her work in colleges, bookstores, theaters and bars up
and down the east coast. A lifetime nerd and part-time athlete, Simone is a
natural product of the sound of Boston performance poetry, bringing slam,
sonnets and storytelling to the poetry stage.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please join us at <a href="http://theqma.com/" target="_blank">The Q Cafe</a> (362 Chandler Street, Worcester). The
open mic sign-up list goes out around 7:00 p.m. and the reading starts
closer to 7:30 p.m. No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to
support the feature.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Poets' Asylum MySpace</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One could say that we are a little late in getting this into
the game. As someone said, "So what". For those of you who craze further
connectedness the Poets' Asylum has created a MySpace page. The lovely Cyndi
Keeley is the lady running the show over there, putting up video, pulling down
photos and so on.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Visit <a href="http://www.myspace.com/poetsasylum" target="_blank">myspace.com/poetsasylum</a> and check it out. And friend us,
we crave friends!!!</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Asylum t-shirts</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum is contemplating a new t-shirt design for
2008 to help raise money to send the team to Nationals. To help us decided
whether to go through the effort of creating a new t-shirt we have a poll
running on our <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/poetsasylum/64923.html" target="_blank">LiveJournal community</a>. If you have a LiveJournal please
let us know your thought by answering the one question poll. If you don't have
a LiveJournal feel free to drop an e-mail to <a href="mailto:webmaster@poetasylum.org">webmaster @ poetsasylum.org</a> with your size info.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">T-shirts will sell for $10 each. No color has been selected
yet. If we go ahead with new-shirts we'll do so in late June/early July.
Thanks for your input... and support!</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">May 25th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well that was fun!!! The 2008 <b>Worcester Slam Team Finals
</b> were held tonight. A packed house witnessed a kickin' open mic followed
by 8 of the area's best performance poets. If you were there you know who won.
If you weren't you missed laughter, open emotion, blazing acts of poetry and
the best the performers had to give. Thanks to Adam Stone, Bobby Gibbs, Dave
Keali'i, Erin Jackson, Gary Hoare, Nick Davis, Ryk McIntyre and Trevor
Byrne-Smith for their amazing efforts tonight. Thanks also to the judges,
Alex (our sacrifice poet), hosts Bill MacMillan and Liz O, and the audience, we
couldn't do this thing without you.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So who won... congratulations to Bobby Gibbs, Adam Stone, Ryk
McIntyre, Trevor Byrne-Smith and alternate Erin Jackson. They will represent
Worcester at the <a href="http://www.nps2008.com/" target="_blank">2008 National
Poetry Slam</a> in Madison, WI. The scores from finals can be viewed on the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/scorelink.html">Slam page</a>. Please join us next
week for Simone Beaubien.</font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum is in its fifteenth year of bringing the
best in Performance and Slam Poetry to Central Massachusetts and beyond.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Find us online at <a href="http://www.poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">http://www.poetsasylum.org/</a>.</font></p>
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