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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 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" width="150"><font size="2">Thursday, Dec. 10</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" width="65" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Jingle Mingle @ The Street Beat (1 Ekman Street, Worcester)
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" width="65" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Friday, Dec. 11</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">10:00 a.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Shrewsbury Senior Writers @ Shrewsbury Senior Center
<br>(100 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury)</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Worcester Youth/Clark UNIFIED Poetry Slam @ Clark University, Higgins
Center (950 Main Street, Worcester)</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Worcester Storytellers (1 Ekman Street, Worcester)
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, Dec. 13</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">6:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>8-Minute Speech Slam </b> @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></font>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Monday, Dec. 14</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>Nataly Garcia</b> @ <a href="http://theqma.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Little "a" Poetry Series</a></font>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>Max Kessler</b> @ the <a href="http://dirtygerund.com/" target="_blank">Dirty Gerund Poetry Show</a></font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Thursday, Dec. 17</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>Danielle Cariveau</b> @ <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></font> </td>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, December 13th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This week we're trying something new at the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a> with the <a href="http://www.ted.com/" target="_blank">TED</a> conference inspired
<b>8-Minute Speech Slam</b>. This will be a one round slam with a invitational
slate of 7 competitors plus one wild card slot for someone present that night
who is prepared to take part. Each person will perform the "speech of their
life" about some topic they find deeply important, personal or just plain
enriching. Performances will be judges by audience members and the winner of
the night will head home with some bragging rights (and a prize of some sort
if we can figure out something appropriate).</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Come on down to Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street,
Worcester). The sign-up list goes out by 6:00 p.m. and the reading starts by
6:30 p.m. No cover; please put some money in the bucket to support reading.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">December 6th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We had a good reading this week with the regular open mic and
the <b>Head-to-Head Haiku Deathmatch</b>. Only two people decided to take part
in the slam, Nick Davis and Gary Hoare. We went with a best of 11 rounds
approach so the first poet to receive 6 wins would take home the prize. The
slam ended up running all eleven rounds and darn near had a tie. Host Danny
Balel called it with Nick receiving the final win and the $10 prize. It was
a fun, if shorter than normal, night.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Photo Gallery Update</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/album.gif" alt="Photo Album" title="Lots of new photos to see." vspace="5" align="right" border="0" hspace="7">
On December 5th and 6th we uploaded nine new photo sets of features from the
past four months to the 2009 Albums. Check out the photos of Jeff Stumpo,
Lara Bozabalian, David Perez, Scott Woods, Corrina Bain, Mark Palos and Ryan
McLellan, Rob Sturma, Rachel McKibbens and Tui Scanlan.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All these photos, and many more, can be found by visiting <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">poetsasylum.org</a> and clicking
the Photo Gallery button on the left.</font></p>
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