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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. Lots of great stuff happening
over the next week so read on and join us!!!</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Remembering Brenda Moosey</font></h3></center>
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Brenda J. Moosey, a founding member of Ozark Poetry Collective, passed
away on January 29th. Moosey gave numerous public readings including
appearances at the Poets' Asylum @ Eleni's Midnight Cafe in Worcester,
the Cantab Lounge in Boston, the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe and The Knitting
Factory in New York City, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, and
Cody's Books Poetry Flash Reading Series in Berkeley. A member of the
Ozarks Team to the 1995 National Poetry Slam, she also conducted
classes and workshops on the craft of poetry to young writers in the
Arkansas and New Jersey schools. She was a member of the 2000 Slam
America Tour and was published in numerous journals.</font>
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</font><p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hear Brenda perform<br>
her poem <u>Anaconda</u><br> at <a href="http://www.destructibleheart.com/freelance/Brenda-Moosey-Anaconda.mp3" target="_blank">destructibleheart.com</a>.<br>
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<a href="http://www.destructibleheart.com/freelance/Brenda-Moosey-Anaconda.mp3" target="_blank"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/listen.jpg" alt="listen" title="Listen to Brenda's poem 'Andaconda'. " align="center" width="50" height="50"></a>
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<p align="center"><font size="2"><i>Brenda Moosey from the 2000 Slam<br>
America Tour visit to the Poets' Asylum</i></font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thursday, February 5th @ The Spot</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,
with a twist. In honor of the feature's 37th birthday there will be a
<u>Roast</u> of and <u>poetry reading</u> by <b>Victor Infante</b>. Come
celebrate or skewer the feature, listen to some good words and have a grand
old time.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. with a brief open mic.
21+ and proper id is required.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Youth Slam Saturday Night (Feb. 7th)<br></font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <u>Speakout! Youth Poetry Slam</u> meets every Saturday
from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The format is an open mic, youth slam (ages 13-19
welcome) and a feature. This week their features will be <b>Meg Fogerty</b>
and <b>Richard Edouard-Denor</b> from 2008 Brave New Voices Semi-Finalist
Providence Youth Poetry Slam Team. Join them in The Bisto in Higgins Student
Center (950 Main Street, Worcester). Come share a poem at the open mic, catch
the feature or cheer on the slammers.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, February 8th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Join us this Sunday night for a feature by <b>Sam Teitel</b>
and <b>Steve Subrizi</b> for a rescheduled feature. Their originally scheduled
feature was snowed out back in December. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sam Teitel and Steve Subrizi are both poets from the Boston area.
Steve is a member of Emerson College's legendary and award winning
CUPSI team, The Gringo Choir. Sam is a student at Hampshire College and
a member of Manchester New Hampshire's slightly less legendary or award
winning but still perfectly respectable National Poetry Slam team, Slam
Free Or Die. They are delighted to be embarking on their first big
national poetry tour, and are willing to accept the idea that they will
be touring with each other. They will be driving across the country in
Sam's 2005 Scion XB because any good buddy story involves a comical
automobile. Their collaborative chapbook, "Beet-itude: The Super Deluxe
Collector's Edition" will be available soon. No, that's not a typo;
it's a book about beets. Like, the vegetable. Beets with attitude.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Head on down to 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">Mike McGee @ The Dirty Gerund<br>
on Monday, February 9th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <u>Dirty Gerund Poetry Show</u> meets every Monday night
starting at 8:30 p.m. The reading is being held at Ralph's Chadwick Square
Diner (148 Grove Street, Worcester) and is hosted by Rushelle Frazier.
This week they'll have an open mic followed by their first feature, the <b>
Mighty Mike McGee</b>. It's always a fun night of words when Mike is involved
so come down and support Worcester's newest reading.</font></p>
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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">No cover; donations accepted. 21+</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">February 1st Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to everyone who came out for the feature by <b>Kryia
Abrahams</b>. It was a fun filled night of laughter and good words. Kryia
started things out with a primer to Jehovah's Witnesses and then moved on to
read excerpts from her upcoming book <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). With highly personal anecdotes she shared her introduction to slam
poetry, attempts to get out of her marriage and the departure from JW-land. We
look forward to getting our hands on the book when it is released in March.
Thanks for the words and funny bits.</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 February 1st we uploaded six new photo sets of features from the past
couple of months to the 2008 & 2009 Albums. Check out the photos of Michael
Brown (12/07), Karen Finneyfrock (12/14), Mike McGee (12/28), LV (01/04),
Christian Drake (01/11) and Alex Charalambides (01/18).</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All these photos, and many more, can be found by clicking the Photo
Gallery button on the left side navigation menu at <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/">poetsasylum.org</a>.</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>
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