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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Seasons Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. May you and yours be safe and sane as 2009 winds down and a new decade is launched. See you in 2010, our 20th anniversary year!<br>
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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"><font size="2">Sunday, Dec. 27</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">6:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Bill MacMillan</b> @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></font>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Monday, Dec. 28</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><a href="http://theqma.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Little "a" Poetry Series</a></font>
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<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Jackie Morrill</b> @ the <a href="http://dirtygerund.com/" target="_blank">Dirty Gerund Poetry Show</a></font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Thursday, Dec. 31</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">6:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><a href="http://www.firstnightworcester.org/" target="_blank">Poetry for Kids by the Elders</a> @ First Night Worcester, Worcester Art Museum (55 Salisbury Street, Worcester)</font></td>
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<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Bill MacMillan</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 27th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/bill-sm.jpg" alt="Bill MacMillan" title="Bill MacMillan features on December 27th!" width="125" align="right" height="128">
The <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a> closes
out 2009 with a feature by our slammaster, <b>Bill MacMillan</b>. MacMillan is
the founder of the Worcester Poetry Slam and co-founder of the Worcester Poets'
Asylum. Bill was a member of the Providence Slam Team that won the national
championship in '96 & was later featured in the film SlamNation. He was the
co-host of the 2005 iWPS in Worcester & has been on numerous Worcester slam
teams. When not writing, Bill is an accomplished visual artist and armor
conservator. He can drink more coffee than the average person, but still hates
talking about himself in the third person.</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.
It's the last reading of 2009 and it should be a good one.</font></p>
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