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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum and welcome back to all the college students returning to Worcester for the fall semester. We hope to see you soon at our <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/venuelink.html">new venue</a>. </font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum in the News</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">An article on the Poets' Asylum and our move to Jumpin' Juice
and Java has appeared online and was picked up by several MetroWest newspapers
such as the Concord Journal. The article includes a pair of videos, one with
snippets of poetry from new venue and another from The Q.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can read the article and view the videos by visiting
<a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/concord/fun/entertainment/books/x1311853864/Literary-event-lives-again-at-new-Worcester-venue" target="_blank">http://www.wickedlocal.com/concord/...</a> (it really is a long URL).</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jen Mahon @ The Ship Tonight</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.
The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. with an open mic. This week they celebrate
their <b>1st anniversary</b> with a feature from <b>Jen Mahon</b>. Host Bobby
Gibbs promises munchies before the open and lots of silliness. Come celebrate
with Worcester's newest weekly reading. 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, September 7th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/VictorLeaStation.jpg" alt="Lea & Victor title=" width="150" align="right" height="100">
This week <b>Lea Deschenes</b> and <b>Victor Infante</b> will be our
features at the Poets' Asylum. Both are longtime friends of the Asylum and
tonight they'll share work from their recently released books (yes, plural).
</font></p><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Victor D. Infante is the editor-in-chief of <i>The November
3rd Club</i>, an online literary journal of political writing, and the author
of the poetry collection <i>City of Insomnia</i>, from Write Bloody Publishing.
His poems and prose have appeared in dozens of periodicals internationally,
including <i>The Los Angeles Review</i>, <i>Pearl</i>, <i>Ballard Street Poetry
Journal</i> and <i>AntiMuse</i>, and the anthologies <i>Poetry Slam, Spoken
Word Revolution Redux</i> and <i>The Last American Valentine</i>. He's an
Aquarius.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lea C. Deschenes is the author of the poetry collection <i>The
Constant Velocity of Trains</i> from Write Bloody Publishing. She received her
MFA in Poetry from New England College, and has been a recipient of Worcester's
Jacob Knight Award and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She once found a five-leaf
clover during a solar eclipse. She's a Gemini.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please join us at our new home, Jumpin' Juice and Java (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 features.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">August 31st Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We had a smaller audience this week however those who did come
out were full of poetic appreciation and eager to hear good words. We welcome
the 2 new readers who took to the mic this week - please come again. Our
feature this week was local poet <b>Jen Mahon</b>. Jen shared an energetic set
of both on and off page pieces. She touched on family, issued a call to help
those in need, railed against "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and shared her heart
through her words. Thanks for an great feature Jen.</font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum is in its seventeenth 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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