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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Please join us for one of the happenings this weekend.<br></font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">April Ranger @ 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 their feature will
be <b>April Ranger</b>. Rumor is Mighty Mike McGee might be around as well. 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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</font><center><h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">West Boylston Arts Festival<br>
Saturday, September 20th</font></h3></center>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/wbaf.jpg" alt="WBAF logo" title="Join us on Sept. 20th for the West Boylston Arts Festival" align="right" hspace="5">
The Poets' Asylum is pleased to participate in the <b>2008 <a href="http://wbaf.org/ArtsFestivalIntro/" target="_blank">West Boylston
Arts Festival</a></b> on September 20th. The festival will be held at
Goodale Park and the West Boylston Middle/High School play fields (125
Cresent Street, West Boylston) and will run from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
with night event continuing until 11:00 p.m. Admission will be $5.</font></p>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In addition to running a booth to share info about the Poets' Asylum
and sell merchandise we will offer a workshop from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
and host an open reading between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. The workshop will
feature a 5 or 10 minute writing prompt followed by critique of one
poem that a poet is working on. Participants are encouraged to bring
one poem they are working on that may need work. The maximum number
of participants is limited to 8 to 10 people so that individuals can
get the attention they need. The workshop will be conducted by Poets'
Asylum co-host Dave Keali'i.</font></p>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We will need poets to read in the open as well. Please come out and
visit us at the West Boylston Arts Festival.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, September 21st</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/l-beatman-sm.jpg" alt="Lisa Beatman" title="Lisa Beatman will be our feature on Sept. 21st!" align="right" hspace="5">
Come out to the Poets' Asylum this Sunday for our regular open mic and a feature
by Roslindale poet <b>Lisa Beatman</b>. Beatman manages adult literacy programs
at the Harriet Tubman House in the South End. She won Honorable Mention for the
2004 Miriam Lindberg International Poetry Peace Prize, and was awarded a
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, as well as a fellowship to Sacatar
Institute in Brazil and other far-flung artist residency programs.</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">September 14th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We had a well attended open mic that even included a segment
of a poetic feud between 2008 Slam Team member Trevor Byrne-Smith and 2008
Youth Slam Team member Jeff Seagrist. We look forward to what may occur next
in the open reading. Our feature, <b>Adam Rubenstein</b> presented a fine body
of work about childhood and houses. He made many in the audience laugh and
moved others with the quality of his work. Thank you, Adam. </font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Photo Gallery Update</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On September 12th we uploaded five photo sets of features
from the past couple of months. Check out the photos from the Team Send-off
(07/31), Molly Meacham (08/17), Eric Urban (08/24), Jen Mahon (08/31) and Lea
Deschenes & Victor Infante (09/07).</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Visit <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/">poetsasylum.org</a> and
click on the Photo Gallery button in the navigation column on the left reach
the updates. Visit the 2008 Album to view any of these photo sets.</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://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">http://poetsasylum.org/</a>.</font></p>
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