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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. Visit <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/">poetsasylum.org</a> to see what other poetic
events are taking place this weekend in area. Here are a couple of highlights.
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jenith Charpentier Tonight @ 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. After the
open the <b>Jenith Charpentier</b> will be their feature. Charpentier writes
poetry and fiction. 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</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 feature will be New Hampshire
teacher, published poet and slammer <b>Matt Gallant</b>. Join them in
The Bistro 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, March 1st</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/100words.gif" alt="100 Word Slam" title="Win $50 in the 100 Word Slam this week!" align="right" border="0" hspace="5">
Join the <u>Poets' Asylum</u> this week for something a bit different with the
<b>100 Word Slam</b>. This will be a two round slam meant to stretch the use
of words. We'll run it the same of a regular slam (3 minute rounds, original
work, no props, etc.) with the catch that the two poems have to be 100 words
combined. No more, no less, no repeats. The winner goes home with $50. Come
see what the word wizards can do.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Head 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 reading.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">February 22nd Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Busy night at the Poets' Asylum this week with a packed open mic, a
spotlight feature by <b>Jadon Woodard</b> and a full <b>open qualifying slam
</b>. Thanks to the fine folks from New Hampshire for adding their words to
our open & slam. It was great to have you in the house. Thanks too go out to
Jadon for his high energy spotlight set. With powerful wordplay and a strong
ear for the flow of his work he captured the audience and left us wanting
more.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On to the main event: the open qualifying slam. Eight poets
took the stage this month with Mighty Mike McGee offering the sacrifice (and
the only time penalty of the night). Good gravy there were a lot of poems
flying. At the end of the night the final poet to perform, <u>Danny Balel</u>,
captured first place. Danny moves on to the team finals in May. Thanks to
the all the slammers, judges and the audience for their participation. Scores
from the slam can be found on the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/scorelink.html">Slam page</a> of <a href="http://poetsasylum.org">poetsasylum.org</a>.
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Poets' Asylum is in its eighteenth year of bringing the
best in Performance and Slam Poetry to Central Massachusetts and beyond.</font></p>
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