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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">Poetry Round-up</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We're going to start listing the poetry events taking place in
Central Massachusetts at the top of the weekly newsletter. There's a lot more
poetry taking place than just the Poets' Asylum.</font></p>
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<td width="140"><font size="2">Thursday, Aug. 13</font></td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Evan Plante @ the Street Beat (1 Ekman Street, Worcester)</font></td>
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<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">David Perez @ <a href="http://myspace.com/theship0906" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Friday, Aug. 14</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">extended open reading @ Worcester Storytellers (1 Ekman
Street, Worcester)</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Saturday, Aug. 15</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">11:30 a.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Lea Deschenes, Victor Infante & Mike McGee @ <a href="http://www.marlborough-ma.gov/Gen/MarlboroughMA_PubLibrary/index" target="_blank">Marlboro Public Library</a></font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Sunday, Aug. 16</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">6:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Lara Bozabalian @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Monday, Aug. 17</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">The Little "a" Poetry Series (362 Chandler Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:30 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Lea Deschenes & Victor Infante @ the Dirty Gerund Poetry Show<br>
(148 Grove Street, Worcester)</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Thursday, Aug. 20</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Liz Heath @ <a href="http://myspace.com/theship0906" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></font></td>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, August 16th @ the Poets' Asylum</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/larab.jpg" alt="Lara B." title="NPS '09 slammer Lara Bozabalian will feature on August 16th!" align="right" hspace="5">
Come out to the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets'
Asylum</a> this week for Canadian slammer <b>Lara Bozabalian</b>. Lara's
poetry and prose have been published in journals, magazines and newspapers, as
well as in two literary anthologies. She is currently a member of <u>Four
Women</u>, Canada's first all-female slam team. She is the author of four
chapbooks, <i>Exhale to December</i>, <i>The Morning Glories </i>, <i>New
Dream and Free</i>, and her first full length collection will be published by
Piquant Press in Fall 2009. She founded and runs a spoken word festival for
high school students across York Region.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We kick the night of with our regular poetry open mic. Please
join us at Jumpin' Juice and Java ( 335 Chandler Street, Worcester). The
reading starts around 6:00 p.m. No cover; please put some money in the bucket
to support the feature.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">August 9th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We had light attendance this week, not surprising with many of
the regulars still making their way back from NPS '09. Congrats to Team
Soapboxing from St. Paul, MN on their win by the way. After a medium sized open
feature <b>Jeff Stumpo</b> took to the mic. This was the first time many of us
had the opportunity to hear Jeff's work and he wowed the room. With a well
crafted style and a quick turn of phrase he left the gathered eager for more.
Of note were a spectacular piece dedicated to his wife and the power of marriage
and a pair of poems with a unique take on Icarus. Brisk chapbook sales followed
the feature so you gotta figure people liked what they heard. Thanks for
sharing your words with us Jeff.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jeff will be featuring at the Cantab on the 19th if you missed
him or want to hear more.</font></p>
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