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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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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>Sean Conlon</b>. 21+ and proper id is
required.</font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/rushellefrazier-sm.jpg" alt="Rushelle Frazier" title="Photo by Jordan Scott" align="right" hspace="5">
Join the Poets' Asylum this week for our regular poetry open
mic and a feature by Asylum regular <b>Rushelle Frazier</b>. Frazier
is the host of Worcester's newest poetry reading, The Dirty Gerund
Poetry Show. She was a member of the 2002 Worcester Slam team and was
voted Best Female poet at the 2006 Savannah Spoken Word Festival. She
was recently elected to the board of the <a href="http://wcpa.homestead.com/" target="_blank">Worcester County
Poetry Association</a>. This July she will be one-third of the brick
house that is the <i>Best Tour Ever Tour 2009</i> along with tour mates Matt
Fox and Nick Davis.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Come out for a night of great words 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 feature.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">May 31st Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We love hearing new voices in the open mic and there were a
couple this week. Please join us again, it was great to hear you read. After
the open we held the <b>One Minute Slam</b>. Heather, Dave K, Meagan, Bill
and Gary each took part in the 3 round just-for-fun slam. The longest poem
clocked in just over the grace period at 1 minute 10.1 seconds. The shortest
poem was a whole 15.9 seconds (and it wasn't a hiaku). At the end of the
slam <u>Bill</u> beat out Meagan by 2/10ths of a point to win the slam. Thanks
to all who took part.</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"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/thermometer.png" alt="Fundraising Thermometer" title="$1113 still needs to be raised!" align="right" height="203" hspace="5" width="95">
This week another $106 was raised toward the expenses of sending a team to the
<a href="http://www.nps2009.com/" target="_blank">2009 National Poetry Slam</a>.
We've raised a total of $1493 so far. Thanks to all those who have given money
in support of the team.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We still need to raise a minimum of another $1007 to cover our
expenses. To date the Poets' Asylum has spent $2438.50 on NPS registration,
hotel rooms & airfare to West Palm Beach. We have at least another couple
hundred in necessary expenses before August. We can't do this without you and
we thank you for your generosity.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We are looking toward our always supportive community for
their assistance in raising that money. If you have an idea for a fundraiser
that you are willing to organize please drop an email to <a href="mailto:webmaster@poetsasylum.org"> webmaster @ poetsasylum . org</a>.</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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