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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting from the Poets' Asylum.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, February 1st</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/kyria-abrahams.jpg" alt="Kyria Abrahams" title="Photo by Todd Serencha, 2007" align="right" vspace="3" hspace="5">
This week the <u>Poets' Asylum</u> welcomes <b>Kyria Abramhams</b>, author of
<a href="http://www.kyriaabrahams.com/aboutthebook.html" target="_blank">I'M
PERFECT, YOU'RE DOOMED: Tales of a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing</a> (Touchstone,
2009). For two years, Kyria Abrahams was a regular columnist for Jest Magazine,
where she was featured alongside performers and writers from The Daily Show and
Chappelle's Show. She has been a past performer at alternative comedy shows
like Eating It and Invite them Up, as well as literary readings like How to
Kick People. She lives in Queens with an abused cat that she just knows will
start to love her some day.</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">January 25th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Congratulations to <u>Trevor Byrne-Smith</u> on his first
place win this week in the <b>open qualifying slam</b>. Four slammers put
their words on the line and accepted the verdict of the randomly choosen
judges. Big crowd this week and a new voice or two in the open mic. We hope
to see you all again.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">BSPJ Workshop Series</font></h3></center>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com/" target="_blank">Ballard
Street Poetry Journal</a> has announced their upcoming Workshop Series.
</font></p><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/bspj.jpg" alt="BSPJ image" title="Please support your local poetry journal!" align="right" hspace="5">
<b><i>Poetry Writing from Life with Heather J.
Macpherson</i></b>. This three-workshop series will focus on finding the
heightened and mundane moments from our lives to become poetry on the page.
This series meets on the following Sundays: March 1st, 8th, & 15th.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><i>How do you make the poem on page reflect the poem on
stage? with Tony Brown</i></b>. In this series of three workshops, participants
will take two poems from initial conception to public unveiling at a poetry
reading. The first session will involve a couple of intensive writing prompts
and exercises to create the first drafts of two very different poems. The
second will focus on refinement of the poem with an eye toward making line
breaks, punctuation, stanza breaks, etc., reflect the actual "voice " of the
poem and the poet, while the third will be devoted to refinement of the
delivery of the poem in public performance. In all three workshops, oral
recitation will be used as a key tool for editing and (more importantly) deep
exploration of how to make the poem say what the poet wants it to say. This
series meets on the following Sundays: April 12th, 19th and May 3rd.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Workshops are free and limited to 10 participants. Suggested
donation of $3-5 dollars. Refreshments provided. Workshops run from 2-4 p.m.
and meet at the Worcester County Poetry Association Office at 1 Ekman Street,
Quinsigamond Village, Worcester, MA. E-mail edi<a href="http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01OzAwrzftU90BvvHEL5_-rg==&c=gQe6n5UyP5ZY8AC4npSOA37jWwwpKhBEqXi7hArHGFnXAzQPUuTZL3wU1r_Rw-I8" onclick="window.open('http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01OzAwrzftU90BvvHEL5_-rg==&c=gQe6n5UyP5ZY8AC4npSOA37jWwwpKhBEqXi7hArHGFnXAzQPUuTZL3wU1r_Rw-I8', '', '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://ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com">ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com</a> to register.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please visit <a href="http://www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com%22/" target="_blank">http://www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com</a> for more upcoming
events and workshops. Check their new blog for updates at <a href="http://www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">new blog</a>.</font></p>
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best in Performance and Slam Poetry to Central Massachusetts and beyond.</font></p>
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