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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="130">Thursday, Oct. 1</td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>open cash slam @ <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Sunday, Oct. 4</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">6:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Bobby Gibbs @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Monday, Oct. 5</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">7:00 p.m.</td>
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<td><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">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Rushelle Frazier @ the <a href="http://dirtygerund.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Dirty Gerund Poetry Show</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Thursday, Oct. 8</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">7:30 p.m.</td>
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<td>Cleopatra Mathis @ the First Annual Gregory Stockmal Reading
<br>(Holy Cross College, Rehm Library, 1 College Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top">Thursday, Oct. 8</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Conner Dooley and Ian Khadan @ <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, October 4th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/bgibbs.png" alt="Bobby Gibbs" title="Bobby Gibbs will feature on October 4th!" align="right" hspace="5">
This Sunday, October 4th, the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">
Poets' Asylum</a> welcomes Worcester regular <b>Bobby Gibbs</b> as our feature. Gibbs is the host of the <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">After Nine Poetry Series</a> at the Hotel Vernon and a past
member of several slam teams, most recently the 2008 Worcester team. He was the
Poets' Asylum representative to the Individual World Poetry Slam championships
in 2006. He has been writing all his life and performing his work since 2003.
Gibbs has a unique voice and in his own words he "speaks for and from the
gutter people, the street people".</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This, his first feature at his home venue, is not to be missed.
Join us at Jumpin' Juice & Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester). 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">September 27th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to everyone who came to the weekly Poets' Asylum
reading this past Sunday. It was a busy night with a busy open mic, a feature
by <b>J.W. Baz</b> and a <b>One Minute Slam</b>. There were a lot of new faces
in the crowd and new voices in the open mic; we hope you'll join us again.
Baz gave us a good feature with dark side. Finally the One Minute Slam
continued to amaze with four competitors offering amazing works that had the
audience leaning forward to catch. At the end of the three round slam
<u>Megan</u> took the win. Props to Bobby, Melinda & Alexa for their strong
work.</font></p>
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