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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Another 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">Lea Deschenes @ d'Alzon Poetry Reading - Friday, October 17th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <u>d'Alzon Arts Series: Poetry Reading</u> meets Friday,
October 17th at Assumption College (500 Salisbury Street, Worcester) in the
Emmanuel d'Alzon Library. The format is an open mic for the first half-hour or
so, a short break with refreshments and then the featured poets. The reading
starts at 7:00 p.m. This month their features will be <b>Lea Deschenes</b>
and <b>David Surette</b>.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, October 19th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/ryk-mcintyre.jpg" alt="Ryk McIntyre" title="Ryk features on October 19th!" width="188" align="right" height="125" hspace="5">
This week the Poets' Asylum welcomes member of the 2008 Worcester Slam
team, <b>Ryk McIntyre</b>, as our feature. He is a co-host at The
Cantab Poetry Reading in Cambridge, MA and GotPoetry Live! in
Providence, RI. He has toured nationally and in Canada, opening for
acts as varied as Leon Redbone, Andrei Codrescu and Jim Carroll.
McIntyre read at venues such as Boston's ICA, New York's New School and
Lollapalooza 1994. He was featured at the very first "Legends Of Slam"
showcase reading at NPS 2006. He has been published in Short-Fuse-
An Anthology Of New Fusion Poets, 100 Poets Against The New World Order,
Nth Magazine and The Worcester Review.</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>.
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">October 12th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Congratulations to <b>Alex Charalambides</b> on winning the
iWPS Selection Slam tonight. Alex will represent Worcester and the Poets'
Asylum at the <a href="http://individualworldpoetryslam.com/" target="_blank">
2008 Individual World Poetry Slam</a> this December in Charlotte, NC.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Many thanks to all the poets who came out to perform: Danny,
Tony, Rushelle, Bobby, Alex, Jeff, Nick, Dave K., April and Big Poppa E. Thanks
too to the judges, host Bill MacMillan and most importantly the audience. We
couldn't do this stuff without you.</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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