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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">New Name - Same Great Poetry<br>
The After Nine Poetry Series - Every Thursday Night</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The <u>The After Nine Poetry Series</u>, former The Spot, is
a weekly poetry reading in the Ship Room at the Hotel Vernon (1 Kelly Square,
Worcester). The reading gathers starting at 8:00 p.m. but honestly things don't
usually get started until 9ish. They hold an open mic followed by a feature
and this week the feature will be <b>Dave Macpherson</b>. Macpherson is the host of the once a month Worcester Storytellers, a member of the WCPA board and a member of several Worcester Slam teams. He plans to have
a new chapbook available. 21+ and proper id is required.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, May 31st</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/stopwatch.gif" alt="A Stopwatch" title="Time is Fleeting - the One Minute Slam - May 31st" align="right" border="0">
Please join the <u>Poets' Asylum</u> on Sunday, May 31st for our regular poetry
open mic and the <b>One Minute Slam</b>. This just-for-fun slam will consist
of 3 1-minute rounds. You must use your own work and the other regular rules
(no props, time penalties) are in effect. From haiku to short nuggets of
poetic gold this should be a fast paced good time. We hope you'll join in the
fun.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Come 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 reading and the
2009 Worcester Slam team.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fundraising Update</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to all those who threw money into the bucket when it
went around at the Team Finals on May 24th. We raised $200 that night. We
can't do this without you!</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We still need to raise an additional $1113 to send the team to
West Palm Beach (and bring them back), cover the hotel room, pay for PSI
memberships for the team members and maybe give the team a bit toward food.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">May 24th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/2009team-sm.jpg" alt="2009 Team" title="The 2009 Worcester Slam Team" align="right" width="200" height="159" hspace="5">
Congratulations to the 2009 Worcester Slam Team... Danielle
Carriveau, Trevor Byrne-Smith, Dave Keali'i, Danny Balel and alternate McKendy
Fils-Aime. They will represent Worcester at the <a href="http://nps2009.com/" target="_blank">2009 National Poetry Slam</a> in West Palm Beach, Florida.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was quite a night with a small open, a packed house and the
four round <b>2009 Worcester Slam Team Finals</b>. All eight competitors
brought their best work and there was nary a stumble along the way. We are
grateful to Liz Heath, Trevor Byrne-Smith, Cowboy Matt, Danny Balel, Dave
Keali'i, Danielle Carriveau, Aslan King and McKendy Fils-Aime for sharing their
talent with us. There was a tie for first place but that's not important.
With only four spots available on the team we found ourselves with a tie for
fourth place at the end of the night. Danny & McKendy went head-to-head in a
fifth round and Danny snagged the four slot on the team rooster. McKendy earned
the alternate spot; we hope to raise enough money to send him to Nationals along
with the team. The scores can be viewed on the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/scorelink.html">Slam page</a>.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our thanks to slammaster Bill MacMillan for running a great
show, Cydni Keeley for collecting the scores and to the amazing supporters of
slam poetry in Worcester who showed up in force, kept the energy high and
cheered all the competitors. We couldn't do this without any of you. Heck,
we wouldn't want to do this without all of you.</font></p>
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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>
<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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