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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 week.</font></p>
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<td valign="top" width="135"><font size="2">Thursday, July 29</font></td>
<td valign="top" width="75" align="right"><font size="2">7:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Stanley Kunitz birthday reading @ WCPA Offices (1 Ekman Street,
Worcester)
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<td valign="top" width="75" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">The Little "a" Poetry Series (Dr. Gonzo's
Comestible Emporium, 122 Main Street, Worcester)</font></td>
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<td valign="top" width="135"><font size="2">Friday, July 30</font></td>
<td valign="top" width="75" 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)</font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Sunday, Aug. 1</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">1:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">Sundays@One: Poetry in Flight @ Fruitlands Museum (102 Prospect
Hill
Road, Harvard)
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<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">6:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>Dave Keali'i</b> @ the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a></font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font size="2">Monday, Aug. 2</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">9:00 p.m.</font></td>
<td><font size="2"><br></font></td>
<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, Aug. 5</font></td>
<td valign="top" align="right"><font size="2">8:00 p.m.</font></td>
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<td><font size="2">The Little "a" Poetry Series (Dr. Gonzo's
Comestible Emporium, 122 Main Street, Worcester)</font></td>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sunday, August 1st @ the
Poets' Asylum</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://poetsasylum.org/images/davek-sm.jpg" alt="Dave Keali'i" title="Come hear Dave Keali'i before he moves to Hawai'i!" width="160" align="left" border="0" height="107" hspace="5">
Join the <a href="http://poetsasylum.org/" target="_blank">Poets' Asylum</a>
for our regular open mic plus a feature by <b>Dave Keali'i</b>.
Keali'i, a
Worcester resident for about three years, who has also been a Poets'
Asylum
co-host for about the same time. Originally from Springfield,
Massachusetts; he
made the move to Worcester because of poetry and slam. A member of
Worcester's
2009 slam team, he has also had poems published in or forthcoming from <i>USO's
On Freeways: An Anthology of Pacific Islander Writers from the
Continental
U.S.</i>, <i>Ballard Street Poetry Journal</i>, and <i>Bread Crumb Scabs</i>.
He works as a librarian at an academic and a public library. This is his
last
area feature before he attends the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in the
fall.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Come hear
Dave's final area feature for many a moon at the Nu
Cafe (formerly Jumpin' Juice & Java, 335 Chandler Street, Worcester)
to hear
him live. The sign-up list goes out at 6:00 p.m. and the reading
starts
around 6:15. No cover; donations accepted to pay the feature.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you
can't join us in person we're going to give webcasting
another try this Sunday. Head over to <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-from-the-poets-asylum" target="_blank">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-from-the-poets-asylum</a>
to watch the show live.</font></p>
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">July 25th Revisited</font></h3></center>
<p align="justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There was a
packed house this week gathered for the send-off
feature by <b>Trevor Byrne-Smith</b>. Trevor shared tribute to Dr. Who,
the
reasons we should all be afraid, his thoughts on "your momma" jokes and
more in
his 40 minute set. He shared poems from two new chapbooks, one
containing just
six poems, a poem each for the six New England states. He closed his
set with
the Massachusetts poem, titled "Worchester". Trevor heads to Colorado
this
fall and we hope he'll find his way back to "Worchester" from time to
time.
All the best to you Trevor.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We made our first attempt
at webcasting this week. You can check out a
recording of Trevor's feature by visiting <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8516609" target="_blank">http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8516609</a>.</font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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