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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. 17</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>Danielle Carriveau</b> @ <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. 18</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">Youth Writing & Performance Workshop @ the WCPA offices <br>(1 Ekman
Street, Worcester)
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, Dec. 20</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>Dane Kuttler</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. 21</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"><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>Paulie Lipman</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. 24</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>Yankee Swap</b> @ <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Serie<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">s</font></a></font> </td>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, December 20th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/dkuttler.jpg" alt="Dane Kuttler" title="Dane Kuttler will be our feature on December 20th!" width="125" align="left" height="168" hspace="5">
This week the Poets' Asylum welcomes <b>Dane Kuttler</b> as our feature.
Kuttler grew up in northern New Jersey, where she learned about the wonders of
independent coffee shops, and the importance of knowing one's origins. In
college, Dane became a regular at the Hampshire Slam Collective, and
participated in the first-ever Women of the World Poetry Slam in Detroit, MI.
Her poetry is often lyrical and narrative, exploring themes of Jewish and queer
identities, with a lot of love poems to her grandparents.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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 by
6:30 p.m. No cover however please put some money in the bucket; it's how we
pay the feature.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">December 13th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This week we held our first <b>8-Minute Speech Slam</b>. It
was a very interesting event with the participants offering talks on a variety
of topics ranging from abuse to memory, organizing to bad teeth. Three judges
from the audience gave closed scores to each of the speakers and at the end of
the night host Danny Balel tallied up the scores and delivered the verdict.
Before we get to that here are some memorable lines (hopefully I got them down
correctly).
</font></p><ul><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <li><i>"My memory is an eggplant."</i> - Megan Thoma</li>
<li><i>"Stories that are good always start with a half truth."</i> - Bobby Gibbs</li>
<li><i>"Starting with the slime becoming earth!"</i> - Dave Keali'i</li>
<li><i>"We are responsible for creating ourselves."</i> - Heather Macpherson</li>
<li><i>"We are constantly in the process of choosing our identities."</i> - Alex Charalambides</li>
<li><i>"Your thoughts race, they all fall on each other like a waterfall."</i> - Tony Brown</li>
<li><i>"My eyes a bathtub slowly filling with water."</i> - Melinda Lee</li>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">At the end of the night <u>Tony Brown</u> received the highest
score and took home bragging rights plus a lovely orange plastic spider. </font></p>
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