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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. 29</td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right">7:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Fall Harvest Poetry Festival @ Quinsigamond Community College,
<br>Harrington Learning Center (670 West Boylston Street Worcester)
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<td valign="top" align="right">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Little "a" Showcase & a Costume Slam @ <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine
Poetry Series</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Friday, Oct. 30</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">10:00 a.m.</td>
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<td>Shrewsbury Senior Writers @ Shrewsbury Senior Center
<br>(100 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury)
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<td valign="top" align="right">6:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Worcester Youth Poetry Slam workshop @ WCPA office
<br>(1 Ekman Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top">Sunday, Nov. 1</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">6:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Jack McCarthy @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a>
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<td valign="top">Monday, Nov. 2</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">7:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Tim Mason @ <a href="http://theqma.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">
The Little "a" Poetry Series</a>
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<td valign="top" align="right">7:30 p.m.</td>
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<td>Beth Sweeney @ the First Monday Poetry Series (First Unitarian Church,
90 Main Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top" align="right">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td>Mark Palos and Ryan McLellan @ the <a href="http://dirtygerund.com/" target="_blank">Dirty Gerund Poetry Show</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Thursday, Nov. 5</td>
<td valign="top" align="right">9:00 p.m.</td>
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<td><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, November 1st</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/photodata//Miscellaneous/640/Jack%20McCarthy.jpg" title="The amazing Jack McCarthy features on November 1st!" width="150" align="right" height="113" hspace="5">
One of our favorite poets is coming to the area on tour and he'll be
the feature at the Poets' Asylum tonight. <b>Jack McCarthy</b>
is a working guy from the Boston area who's been writing poetry since
the mid-60s. He'd been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93,
when two things happened. First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him
into attending a workshop with Galway Kinnell; then he brought his
daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the open mike at the Cantab Lounge
in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping she'd get excited about poetry.
Jack was the one who got hooked. He doesn't think of himself as a
"performance poet," but as a "standup poetry guy," a writer of poems
that perform themselves.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Please join us at Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street,
Worcester). The sign-up list goes out by 6:00 p.m. and the reading starts
around 6:30 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">October 25th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks to those you came out this past Sunday for the regular
poetry open mic and an <b>open slam</b>. Only three poets took part in the
slam - Jackie, Danny and Anna. The judges were tough but fair and at the end of
two rounds we had a winner... <u>Jackie</u>. She took home the $10 cash prize.
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