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</font><p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greeting from the Poets' Asylum. There are great poetry events happening over the next week. Please consider attending the annual Women Poets Reading on Wednesday. More info below.</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 week.</font></p>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" width="135"><font size="2">Thursday, Mar. 4</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" width="70" 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"><b>Bobby Gibbs</b> @ the <a href="http://theqma.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Little "a" Poetry Series</a></font>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Friday, Mar. 5</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 @ the Shrewsbury Senior Center (100 Maple
Avenue, Shrewsbury)
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<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">Youth writing workshop @ the WCPA offices (1 Ekman Street, Worcester)
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Saturday, Mar. 6</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">7:30 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>Stephen Collins</b> @ Worcester Friends Meeting House (901
Pleasant Street, Worcester)
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, Mar. 7</font></td>
<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">2:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><b>Tony Brown</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, Mar. 8</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>Shira Erlichman</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">Wednesday, Mar. 10</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>Worcester Women Poets Reading</b> @ Quinsigamond Community College
(Harrington Library, 670 West Boylston Street, Worcester)
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<td style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" valign="top"><font size="2">Thursday, Mar. 11</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>Joe Fusco Jr.</b> @ the Street Beat (WCPA offices, 1 Ekman Street,
Worcester)
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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"><b>Jared Paul</b> @ the <a href="http://theqma.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Little "a" Poetry Series</a></font>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, March 7th @ the Poets' Asylum</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.poetsasylum.org/images/tbrown.jpg" alt="Tony Brown" title="Tony Brown features on March 7th!" width="122" align="right" height="107" hspace="5">
March brings a rotation of local poets to the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a> stage and there's none better to start it off
than the fantastic <b>Tony Brown</b>. Brown's career as a writer reaches back
to the 70s when he was first published. His most recent book, "Flood", was
released in June of 2009 by Pudding House Publications of Columbus, OH.
His work has appeared in journals and anthologies, he has performed in
poetry venues from coast to coast and, oh yeah, he did that poetry slam
thing for a while too. He also performs as a member of the poetry and
jazz duo <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/poetrybytonybrown" target="_blank">Duende</a>, with whom he has released two CDs. Tony will release a new chapbook this week as well.<br></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday night Tony will present a solo show and we know he has some
great stuff in store. 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
is how we pay the feature.</font></p><center><hr width="50%">
<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Worcester Women Poets Reading<br>Wednesday, March 10th</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The fourth annual <b>Worcester Women Poets Reading</b>, in
honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, will be held on
Wednesday, March 10th. The reading will feature poets Melinda Lee, Jackie
Morrill, Catherine Reed, Susan Roney-O'Brien, Susan Edwards Richmond and
Jessica Bane Robert.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The reading is being held at Quinsigamond Community College
(Harrington Library, 670 West Boylston Street, Worcester) and will run
from 7 to 9:00 p.m. An open mic will follow the featured readers. Snacks
will be provided - featured poets will have books, etc. for sale.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sponsored by the City of Worcester Advisory Committee on the
Status of Women and Quinsigamond Community College.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">February 28th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Excellent reading this week. We move the mic stand around,
changing the orientation of the room, and it seem to make a world of difference.
Ten strong voices took part in the open mic. Then our feature, <b>Khary
Jackson</b>, took to the stage. Khary gave us wonderful set of funny and
thought provoking pieces. Moving from dance to the Brothers Grimm reclaiming
their words; from the fare on future oldies station to a new take on the Oregon
Trail video game; from Idi Amin to Happy & Rosa Parks, Khary blended his words
with precision and gave a spot on performance. Thanks so much Khary.</font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Find us online at <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">http://poetsasylum.org/</a>.</font></p>
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