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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, August 2nd</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" width="200" align="right" height="159" hspace="8">
Join the <u>Poets' Asylum</u> on Sunday, August 2nd, for the <b>Send-off Feature</b>
for the 2009 Worcester Slam Team. They've been refining, practicing
and tweaking their poetry and performance since they won the chance to
represent Worcester back in May. Come out tonight and hear their
voices once again as Danielle Carriveau, Trevor Byrne-Smith, Dave
Keali'i, Danny Balel and McKendy Fils-Aime take to the stage one more
Keali'i, Danny Balel and McKendy Fils-Aime take to the stage one more
time before heading to West Palm Beach, FL for the <a href="http://www.nps2009.com/" target="_blank">2009 National Poetry Slam</a>.
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We hope you will come down to Jumpin' Juice and Java (335
Chandler Street, Worcester). The reading starts around 6:00 p.m. No cover;
please throw some money in the bucket to support the team.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Final Fundraising Push</font></h3></center>
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On August 3rd the 2009 Worcester Slam team will head south to West Palm Beach,
Florida for the <a href="http://www.nps2009.com/" target="_blank">2009 National
Poetry Slam</a>. They will compete against 67 other teams in a battle of words
and have the opportunity to take part in side events ranging from the Nerd Slam
to a Death & Rememberance open mic. The members of the 2009 Worcester Slam
Team have worked hard after earning a spot on the team to hone their craft
and have already shown their skill at regional competitions.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sending a
team to Nationals is a partnership between the Poets' Asylum community
and the slammers. The community says gives us your best and we'll get
you to Nationals. By the time the team heads to Nationals the Asylum
will have spent close to $3100 on registration, airfare and lodging. To
date
we have raised an amazing $2104 since we started the fundraising
campaign in
March. We're in the home stretch and it would be awesome if we could
raise the
remaining $396 of our $2500 goal before the team heads out.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On Sunday, August 2nd we'll hold the annual Team Send-off feature. We'll
have the 2009 Poets' Asylum t-shirts for sale along with past t-shirts, CDs
and anthologies. The bucket will be passed. If you can help us close the gap
it will be greatly appreciated. Even if you are low on funds please come cheer
on the team one more time before they head south for the summer. </font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">July 26th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's been a while since we had a full open mic. We did
this week though and it was full of nuggets of goodness. Thanks to all those
who shared their words; we hope you'll join us again.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After the open <b>Eric Darby</b> featured for us. Bringing
mostly newer work to the mic he included a couple of old favorites and threw
in a cover for good measure. Eric has a verbal style that draws the listener
in, making you want to hear every word, every nuance of what he has to say.
With material like the tale of the two Bobs and Scratch and Dent Dreams it's
well worth the effort. Thanks for sharing your words with us Eric.</font></p>
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<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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