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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">Here's a quick snapshot of the poetry events taking place in
Central Massachusetts during the next 8 days.</font></p>
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<td valign="top" width="140">Thursday, Sept. 3</td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>2nd Anniversary Celebration @ <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Sunday, Sept. 6</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">2:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Lea Deschenes workshop for <a href="http://www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com/" target="_blank">Ballard Street Poetry Journal</a> <font size="1">(more info below)
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<td valign="top" align="right">6:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Scott Woods @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">
Poets' Asylum</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Monday, Sept. 7</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">7:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Michael Fisher @ <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=103045868743&ref=ts" target="_blank">The Little "a" Poetry Series</a>
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<td valign="top" align="right">8:30 p.m.</td>
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<td>Jade Sylvan @ the <a href="http://dirtygerund.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Dirty Gerund Poetry Show</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Thursday, Sept. 10</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>the world famous <i>TBA</i> @ <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></td>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, September 6th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/scottwoods.png" alt="Scott Woods" title="Scott Woods will be our feature on September 6th!" width="108" align="right" height="135" hspace="5">
This week the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blak">Poets' Asylum</a>
welcomes <b>Scott Woods</b> as our feature. Woods has published work in a
variety of publications and has been featured multiple times in national press,
including multiple appearances on National Public Radio. He is the President
of Poetry Slam Inc. and MCs the Writers' Block Poetry Night, an open mic series
in Columbus , Ohio . In 2006 he became the first poet to ever complete a 24-hour
solo poetry reading, a feat he bested every year since by performing for 24
hours each time, but without repeating a single poem.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> You can check out his work at <a href="http://www.blackair.org/" target="_blank">www.blackair.org</a>. Then
join us at Jumpin' Juice & Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester) on Sunday
night. The sign-up list goes out around 6:00 p.m. and the reading usually
starts by 6:30. No cover; please put some money in the bucket to pay
the feature.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">BSPJ Workshop starts on Sunday</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/bspj.jpg" alt="BSPJ image" title="Please support your local poetry journal!" align="right" hspace="5">
<a href="http://www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com/" target="_blank">
Ballard Street Poetry Journal</a> kicks off their next workshop series this
week. The workshop meets from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the offices of the <a href="http://wcpa.homestead.com/" target="_blank">Worcester County Poetry
Association</a> (1 Ekman Street, first floor, Worcester). In this series
<b>Lea C. Deschenes</b> presents <i>Evolving Imagery: Emodiment and Comparison
Using Simile, Metaphor & Metonym</i>. Suggested donation of $3 to $5. The
series will be held on Sept. 6th, 13th and 20th.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To sign-up or find more info including a detailed workshop
description please the Worshops & Events page at <a href="http://www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com/" target="_blank">BSPJ
website</a>.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">August 30th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Congratulations to <u>Gary Hoare</u> on winning the <b>2009
iWPS Selection Slam</b> in a startling fifth round haiku showdown! This was
an amazing night of poetry before a packed house with many first timer visitors
to the Poets' Asylum weekly reading. This was intended to be four round
slam however at the end of round 4 we found three poets, Dani, Trevor and Gary,
tied at 29.8. Slammaster Bill MacMillan gave the poets one minute to craft a
haiku for a fifth round. Trevor scored a 26.2, Dani scored a 26.1 and, in the
final poem of the night Gary Hoare snagged the win with a 26.9.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks go out to all the amazing poets who competed. That
would be Danny Balel, Trevor Byrne-Smith, Dani Carriveau, Alex Charalambides,
Nick Davis, McKendy Fils-Aime, Bobby Gibbs, Gary Hoare and Dave Keali'i. Mad
props to Liz Heath and Bill MacMillan for running a great show, the judges
for keeping the scores tight and to the audience for keeping the judges honest.
We couldn't do it without any of you.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A big shout out to the 30 or so new to Worcester folks who
joined us. We hope you'll come back again.</font></p>
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