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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Hope to see a whole bunch of you at the team send-off tomorrow night.<br></font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Team Send-off August 31st<br>@ The Ship</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The 2008 Worcester Slam Team will be the feature next
Thursday, July 31st at the weekly reading at Hotel Vernon (1 Millbury Street,
Worcester). <b>Trevor Byrne-Smith</b>, <b>Bobby Gibbs</b>, <b>Erin Jackson</b>,
<b>Ryk McIntyre</b> and <b>Adam Stone</b> have spent the time since May finals
honing their words, practicing their work and developing group pieces. Please
join us for this a showcase of their efforts. Plus we'll have the 2008 Asylum
t-shirt available for sale so bring some extra cash - these are bound to go
fast.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. Since this is a bar it is a
21+ event so bring your ID. $5 cover with proceeds supporting the slammers in
their efforts to get to Madison, WI.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2008 Poets' Asylum T-shirt</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/2008_t-shirt_front-sm.jpg" alt="2008 shirt front" title="2008 t-shirt front" align="right" hspace="5">
We will have the 2008 Poets' Asylum T-shirt available at the Team Send-off
Feature on July 31st. The regular price for the 2008 t-shirts will be $15
however for one night only we will sell them for $12 each. Unisex sizes range
from small to 3XL and we have women's sizes in small to XL.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to Bill MacMillan for this years design. The image to
the right appears on the front of the t-shirt. The back lists Worcester, MA and
<a href="http://poetsasylum.org">poetsasylum.org</a>. A generous donor covered most of the cost of printing the
2008 t-shirts and we a grateful for their support.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proceeds from the sales support the 2008 Worcester Slam Team
and their trip to the <a href="http://nps2008.com/" target="_blank">National
Poetry Slam</a> next month in Madison, WI.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum has a New Home!!!</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/exmark1.gif" align="right">
The Poets' Asylum is super pleased to announce that we have
a new venue... Jumpin' Juice & Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester). The
owners and management loved what they heard on Sunday night at the NorthBeat
Regional Slam. The organizers are psyched to have such a great new space to
call home and we look forward to restarting the weekly reading the week after
Nationals.
</font></p><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The first night for the Poets' Asylum weekly reading at
Jumpin' Juice and Java will be Sunday, August 17th. In addition to a new
venue we will also have a new start time - 6:00 p.m. We have an awesome
feature already booked, Molly Meacham, to christen our new space.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So mark your calendars and plan on joining us on August 17th
for the return of the Poets' Asylum weekly reading. We're looking forward to
it and we hope you are too!</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">July 27th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to everyone who came out to Jumpin' Juice and Java
tonight for the <b>Worcester Regional Slam</b>. Team from the Hampshire and
Emerson Colleges competed against the hometeam (that'd be Worcester) in a
four round slam for glory, groupies and bragging rights. We heard some
interesting work including a couple of group pieces. At the end of the night
the scores were tabulated and Emerson took first, followed by Worcester and
Hampshire. Everyone seemed to have a great time in Worcester's newest
coffeehouse and the folks at Jumpin' Juice and Java enjoyed having us in the
house.</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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