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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. </font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lea Deschenes Book Release - Thursday, August 14th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <a href="http://wcpa.homestead.com/" target="_blank">Worcester County Poetry Association</a> will celebrate the
release of <a href="http://quantumredhead.com/" target="_blank">Lea
Deschenes</a>' new book <i>The Constant Velocity of Trains</i> with a
<b>release reading</b> tomorrow night, August 14th. Join the author for a
reading at the main branch of the Worcester Public Library (3 Salem Square,
Worcester). The reading starts at 7:00 p.m. and Dorinda Wegener will open.
Free and open to the public.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Harlym125 @ The Ship</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This week <u>The Spot</u>, the weekly Thursday night poetry
reading at the Hotel Vernon (1 Kelly Square, Worcester), will hold an open mic
and a feature by <b>Harlym125</b>. Harlym125 is a member of the 2008 Boston
Cantab slam team which finished fourth out of 76 teams at NPS '08. The reading
starts at 8:00 p.m. with an open mic run. No cover; bring a few bucks to throw
in the captain's hat and to buy a $1 draft. 21+</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, August 17th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/molly-meacham.jpg" alt="Molly Meacham" title="Molly Meacham features on August 17th" width="135" align="right" height="180" hspace="5">
The Poets' Asylum returns to our regular schedule starting August 17th at a
new venue and new start time. Please join us for an open mic followed by
a feature from <b>Molly Meacham</b>. The new venue is Jumpin' Juice & Java
(335 Chandler Street, Worcester), where the NorthBeast Regional Slam was
held in July. The new start time is <b><font color="red">6:00 p.m.</font></b>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Molly Meacham left her Tennessee home to avoid an MRS degree
and wound up in Chicago with a double degree of theatre and poetry. She
recently returned to school to get a master's degree in Education. Since
becoming part of the Spoken Word scene in 2005, Molly made the 2005 and 2006
Mental Graffiti Slam Teams, qualified as the Mental Graffiti IWPS 2006
representative, and is part of the Green Mill Slam Team this summer.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please join us 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">NPS '08 Wrap-up</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Congratulations to SlamCharlotte for winning the 2008 National
Poetry Slam. For the second year in a row the team from Charlotte, NC took the
top spot at NPS. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <a href="http://nps2008.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=70" target="_blank">final results</a> from the qualifying
rounds have been listed on the <a href="http://nps2008.com" target="_blank">nps2008.com</a> website. The hometown team,
Worcester, finished in 30th place. They performed excellent work on stage
and were featured in a showcase before one of the semi-final bouts.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Updates during the week in Madision can be found in the <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/poetsasylum/" target="_blank">Poets'
Asylum Blog</a>. Everyone is home now and resting up for the next great
poetic thing. Thanks to everyone for their well wishes and support. We
couldn't have done it without you!</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">
The 2008 Poets' Asylum T-shirt premiered at the Team Send-off Feature on July
31st. The shirts will next be available at the Poets' Asylum reading on
August 17th at Jumpin' Juice and Java . We'll work on getting them set-up
online after that.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The regular price for the 2008 t-shirts is $15. Unisex sizes
range from small to 2XL and we have just a couple women's sizes left (1 each of
medium and large). We've already sold out of unisex 3XL and women's small and
extra large.</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" target="_blank">poetsasylum.org</a>. A generous donor covered most of the cost of printing the
2008 t-shirts and we are grateful for their support.</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 size="2" 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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