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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. The Youth Slam returns Friday night!<br></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="125"><font size="2">Thursday, Jan. 21</font></td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The After Nine Poetry Series</a></font> </td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Friday, Jan. 22</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">10:00 a.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Shrewsbury Senior Writers @ the Shrewsbury Senior Center (100 Maple
Avenue, Shrewsbury)
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<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Blair</b> @ the <a href="http://www.worcesteryouthslam.com/" target="_blank">Worcester Youth Slam</a> (Clark University, Higgins
University Center, 950 Main Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Saturday, Jan. 25</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Jim Fay</b> @ the Saturday Evening Open Mic (Barnes & Noble, (541D
Lincoln Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, Jan. 24</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Something Old Something New Slam</b> @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></font>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Monday, Jan. 18</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>David Blair</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, Jan. 28</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Rumor is this will be the last <a href="http://after9poetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">After Nine
Poetry Series</a></font> </td>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coming up on Sunday, January 24th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Join the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">
Poets' Asylum</a> for our regular poetry open mic followed by the <b>Something
Old-Something New Slam</b>. This will be a two round slam with a 3 minute time
limit. The usual rules apply (no props, randomly chosen judges, etc.) One of
the poems has to be "brand new", as in, never before performed for an audience.
The other poem can be something you've read out for a week or a decade. The
winner takes home half of the bucket (usually around $25). This should be a
lot of fun so please join us.</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 however please put some money in the bucket; it helps to
support the reading.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">WoMag Poetry Contest ends Friday</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://worcestermagazine.com/" target="_blank">Worcester Magazine</a> is hosting its annual <b>Poetry
Contest</b> and they want to hear from you! Submit your poem (one per person)
to A&E editor Doreen Manning via email at <a href="mailto:doreen@worcestermagazine.com">doreen @ worcestermagazine.com</a>
by January 22.</font></p>
<p align="jutsify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Judges this year are local poets Matthew "Cowboy" Hopewell
(2009 WoMag Poetry Contest Winner) and Alex Charalambides (organizer of the
Worcester Youth Poetry Slam among other things).</font></p>
<p align="jutsify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Categories are first, second and third place, plus an addition
first place youth category! Winner will be published in the February 11th issue
of Worcester Magazine, and introduced at a live event and poetry reading that
</font></p><p align="jutsify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Email your poem today!</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">January 17th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We had a pretty good night this week despite a loud room. The
open mic was full, a handful of old-school regulars were in the house to catch
our feature and a new voice or two took to the mic. Our feature, <b>Diane
Haas</b> (formerly Diane Brown), returned to the Poets' Asylum after a fifteen
year absence. She read some older stuff and some new work including a fresh
piece just a week old. She exclaimed "the apostrophe is not a g-spot, stop
fumbling with it" and made sure we understood she wasn't the girl next door.
Glad to have you back on the mic in Worcester Diane.</font></p>
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