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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Here's your weekly update on Central Mass. poetry events.</font></p><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Speakout! Youth Poetry Slam<br>Every Saturday Night</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <b>SpeakOut! Youth Poetry Slam</b> meets every
Saturday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The format is an open mic, youth slam (open to
poets age 13-19) and a feature. Share a poem at the open mic, take part in
the youth slam or come see the feature. This week their feature will be
<u>Bobby Gibbs</u>, a member of the several Worcester Slam teams and host of
The Ship reading at the Hotel Vernon. Join them in The Bisto in Higgins
Student Center (950 Main Street, Worcester).</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, December 7th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/mbrown.jpg" alt="Michael Brown" title="Michael R. Brown will perform on December 7th!" align="right" hspace="5">
This week the Poets' Asylum welcomes <b>Michael Brown</b> to our stage.
Brown has published poetry, fiction, travel articles and columns in wide-ranging
periodicals all over the world. His fourth book of poetry, The Confidence Man,
was published in 2006 by Ragged Sky. In May, 2007, Brown and his partner
Valerie Lawson moved to Robbinston in Down East Maine, the easternmost point in
the USA, where they have been granted the editorial & publishing privileges for
Off the Coast.</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.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">November 30th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is always nice to see folks who haven't made it to the
reading in a while drop in and share their words. Following a cozy open mic
we held an <b>open slam</b> with a twist. Two rookies signed up, honest to
goodness never slammed before poets, and we gave them a 10 point bonus for
taking the plunge. Scores were all over the spectrum, nice to see the range
used as intended. Thanks to Phil, Zeb, Lisa, Danny & Jeff for taking part.
At the end of the night Zeb, one of the rookies, won the slam and took a $25
prize back to college with him.</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"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/album.gif" alt="Photo Album" title="Lots of new photos to see." align="right" border="0" vspace="5" hspace="7">
On November 28th we uploaded eight photo sets of features from
the past several months. Check out the photos of Lisa Beatman (09-21), Beth
Sweeney (09-28), Jon Sands (10-05), Ryk McIntyre (10-19), Andrea Gibson (10-26),
Samantha Barrow (11-02), Joaquín Zihuatanejo (11-16) and Heather Macpherson
(11-23). All these photos, and many more, can be found by visiting <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">poetsasylum.org</a> and clicking
the Photo Gallery button on the left.</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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