<div dir="ltr">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. The 2008 Nationals may be
underway however there is still great poetry in central Massachusetts. Go
check it out for those who are in Madison this week.</font></p>
<center><hr width="50%">
<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chris Fortin Tonight<br>@ The Ship</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This week <u>The Spot</u>, the weekly poetry reading at the
Hotel Vernon (1 Kelly Square, Worcester), will hold an open mic and a feature
by <b>Chris Fortin</b>. The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. with an open
mic run by stunt host Tony Brown. No cover; bring a few bucks to throw in the
captain's hat and to buy a $1 draft. 21+</font></p>
<center><hr width="50%">
<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Worcester Storyteller's Friday Night</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">>Worcester Storytellers meets on the second Friday of each
month at the Village Arts Gallery (1 Ekman Street, Worcester). The reading
starts at 8:00 p.m. There will be an extended open mic with the theme of
<b>The Dog Days of Summer</b>. Worcester Storytellers never charges a cover.
They ask you throw some money into the basket to support the artists who
feature. For more info please contact <a href="mailto:davemacp@aol.com">Dave
Macpherson</a>.</font></p>
<center><hr width="50%">
<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NPS '08 Update</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from Madison. Updates from the 2008 National
Poetry Slam will be posted to the Poets' Asylum LiveJournal. You can check it
out at <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/poetsasylum/" target="_blank">
http://community.livejournal.com/poetsasylum/</a>.
</font></p><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can also check the
<a href="http://nps2008.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=70" target="_blank">results page</a> to see the current ranking of all your
favorite 2008 slam teams. Worcester competes in their second bout tonight.
Look for the results sometime in the wee hours of the morning.</font></p>
<center><hr width="50%">
<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum returns on August 17th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://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>
<center><hr width="75%"></center>
<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>
<p align="justify"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This message was sent to you from the pa-info
mailing list of the Poets' Asylum (<a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">poetsasylum.org</a>). If you would like to no longer receive
updates please <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/mailman/options/pa-info_poetsasylum.org" target="_blank">click here</a> to unsubscribe. If all else fails please send
an e-mail to <a href="mailto:webmaster@poetsasylum.org">
webmaster@poetsasylum.org</a> and we'll do our best to remove your e-mail
address from the list.</font></p>
</div>