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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">Christopher Johnson @ The Ship</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tonight <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>Christopher Johnson</b>. 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 24th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <u>Poets' Asylum</u> is pleased to welcome <b>Eric Urban</b> as
our feature. Eric Urban is Poet Laureate of his mind. Recently, he was
possessed by the soul of TchTchZiggleZiggle BammaBam Floglesworny
CreampieRagnarok, the Third, when he invented the first trans-universal
microwave oven. TV Dinners have never tasted the same. He enjoys long walks on
short piers and candlelight flag burnings. He recently invented a tasty new
confection called Poopsicles; they will be on sale after the show. And, o yeah,
he did some sort of slam thing too.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please join us at our new home, <a href="http://www.poetsasylum.org/venuelink.html">Jumpin' Juice and Java</a> (335
Chandler Street, Worcester). The reading starts at <b><font color="red">6:00
p.m.</font></b>. 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">August 17th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We enjoyed a marvelous night at Poets' Asylum Sunday night with
a packed open mic and excellent feature by <b>Molly Meacham</b>. The new venue,
Jumpin' Juice and Java, was ready for us and we pretty well took over the place.
There were a lot of new faces in the audience as well, we hope you'll join us
again. Molly Meacham's feature mixed her own work with a handful of covers.
She shared poetry about her family, her students and how women connect to
their bodies. It was a great first feature at our new home. Thanks for the
words Molly!</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 24th at Jumpin' Juice and Java . We'll work on getting them set-up
online as time permits.</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 one women's sizes left (it's a large).
We've already sold out of unisex 3XL and women's small, medium and extra large.
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<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 are grateful for their support.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proceeds from the sales support the Poets' Asylum.</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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