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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Amazingly packed weekend
of poetic goodness coming up with a little something for everyone. Visit
<a href="http://poetsasylum.org/weeklink.html">The Week In Poetry</a> on
<a href="http://poetsasylum.org">poetsasylum.org</a> for all the events coming up and links to their websites.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dianne Lockward @ 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>Dianne Lockward</b>. A Rock-Paper-Scissors Slam follows the feature.
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">Worcester Storytellers - Friday, October 10th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Worcester Storytellers</u> meets on the second Friday of
each month at the Vasa Hall (1 Ekman Street, Worcester). The reading starts at
8:00 p.m. There will be an open mic followed by a feature from <b>Victor
Infante</b>, who will read selections from his recently released book, "City of
Insomnia".</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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 dave<a href="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=0142vZ8WHctS5HzS0kHjzbGQ==&c=tkV-A-OQyxR5XEE0wLbdiUKkWEHb0B3P8QLQPSkaQrM=" onclick="window.open('http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=0142vZ8WHctS5HzS0kHjzbGQ==&c=tkV-A-OQyxR5XEE0wLbdiUKkWEHb0B3P8QLQPSkaQrM=','', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=500,height=300'); return false;" title="Reveal this e-mail address">...</a>@<a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a>.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mass. Poetry Festival - Oct. 10-12</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The inaugural <b>Massachusetts Poetry Festival</b> will take
place October 10-12 in Lowell. Friday night there will be a featured reading
with Rhina Espailla, Nick Flynn & Regie Gibson. Saturday afternoon Marjorie
Agosin & Ed Sanders will perform. Saturday night Lucie Broke-broido, Martin
Espada & Robert Pinsky will feature. A variety of workshops, side readings,
performance poetry events and more will fill the schedule.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Visit <a href="http://masspoetry.org/" target="_blank">masspoetry.org</a>
for the full schedule, locations and more info.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kunitz Home Tour - Saturday & Sunday</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A <u>Footsteps in History Tour</u> of the childhood home of
Stanley Kunitz will take place on Saturday, October 11th and Sunday, October
12th. Tours, readings & discussion of the poet's work will take place between
10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on both days. The home is located at 4 Woodford
Street in Worcester. Hosted by members of the <a href="http://wcpa.homestead.com/" target="_blank">Worcester County Poetry
Association</a>.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, October 12th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://individualworldpoetryslam.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/iwps08.jpg" alt="iWPS '08 logo" title="Come help select the Asylum rep to iWPS '08!" hspace="5" align="right" border="0"></a>
This Sunday night (October 12th) the Poets' Asylum will hold a <b>Four Round
Slam</b> to select a representative to send to the 2008 Individual World Poetry
Slam. Up to 12 performers will compete in a 4 round poetry slam and be judged
by 5 randomly chosen audience members. Visit our <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/slam.html#iWPS">slam
page</a> for more info on the format for the slam.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please join us at Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street,
Worcester). The reading starts at <b><font color="red">6:00 p.m.</font></b><font color="red"> </font>.
No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to support the reading. This
is sure to be a night of top notch poetry so you don't want to miss it.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">October 5th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There was a packed house this week with another overflowing
open mic and a feature by <b>Jon Sands</b>. A broad mix of styles & topics
filled the open, from haiku to free verse, from the humorous to the ponderous.
Jon Sands took to the mic after the open for an animated set. Moving with
practiced ease from religion to accidents to a Midtown love note Jon captured
the imagination and attention of the audience. Thanks for the great work
Jon.</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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