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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. While not poetry related you might want to check out the annual <a href="http://www.worcesterart.org/Events/Flora/Flora_10/flora_in_winter_2010.html">Flora in Winter exhibit</a> at the Worcester Art Museum. It starts tonight and runs through Sunday. A lovely respite from the doldrums of mid-winter.<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" width="125"><font size="2">Thursday, Jan. 28</font></td>
<td valign="top" width="70" align="right"><font size="2">3:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">One Poem And... @ Worcester State College (Sullivan
Building, Room S-305, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester) </font></td>
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<td valign="top" width="70" 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</a> reading.</font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Friday, Jan. 29</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">Youth Poetry Writing & Performance Workshop @ the WCPA offices (1 Ekman
Street, Worcester)
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, Jan. 31</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>Megan Thoma</b> @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></font>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Monday, Feb. 1</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">7:30 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Jim Fay</b> @ First Monday Poetry (First Unitarian Church, 90 Main
Street, Worcester)
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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">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, Feb. 4</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:30 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Paul Muldoon</b> @ Holy Cross College (Rehm Library, 1 College
Street, Worcester)
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, January 31st @ the Poets' Asylum</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/mthoma.png" alt="Mega Thoma" title="Megan Thoma features on January 31st!" align="right" hspace="5">
This Sunday, January 31st, the Poets' Asylum welcomes the 2009 NorthBeast Indy
Champion <b>Megan Thoma</b> as our feature. Thoma is a writer and teacher in
Providence, RI. Her students don't believe teachers are real human beings that
"drive cars or have dance parties in their basements." She does both these
things. She is very, very real. She recently joined the slam poetry community
and has performed all over New England and the United States. She is
Providence's co slam-master, their 2009 Grand Slam Champ, and represented the
city at the 2009 National Poetry Slam and 2009 Individual World Poetry Slam.
She will also be representing the city at the 2010 Women of the World Poetry
Slam. She's an amazing poet, writer and performer. Come check out what she
has to share!</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">January 24th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There was a small audience this week for the weekly Asylum
reading. Only one person signed up for the open mic so we quickly moved on
to the <b>Something Old Something New Slam</b>. Seven competitors took part
in the two round event with poems ranging from the nemesis of Sesame Street
to an off-key song. At the end of the night <u>Dave Mac</u> took home half
the bucket with a 3/10th of a point win over second place finisher Liz Heath.
Thanks to all the competitors and other audience members for coming out.</font></p>
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