Poets' Asylum -> The Week in Poetry
The Week in Poetry July 25, 2010 through August 1, 2010
Sunday
07/25
Trevor Bryne-Smith This week the Poets' Asylum welcomes Trevor Byrne-Smith as our feature. Born on the distant planet "New Jersey," Byrne-Smith grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, and has spent the majority of his life living in various different parts of southern New England. He has been a member of the 2003 Providence Youth Poetry Slam Team, the 2005, 2006 and 2010 Providence Slam Teams, and the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Worcester Slam Teams. This fall, he will be moving to Boulder, Colorado to begin working on his Ph.D at the University of Colorado. This will be his final New England feature before he heads west. Please join us to send off a supporter of the Poets' Asylum at the Nu Cafe (formerly Jumpin' Juice & Java, 335 Chandler Street, Worcester). The sign-up list goes out at 6:00 p.m. and the reading starts by 6:30. No cover; donations accepted to pay the feature.

Monday
07/26
The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show is held every Monday night starting at 9:00 p.m. The reading is being held at Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner (148 Grove Street, Worcester). This week their feature will be members of the National Poetry Slam Team from Germany, Wolf Hogekamp, Lars Ruppel and Sebastian 23. More info on all the fun can be found on the Dirty Gerund Blog. No cover; donations accepted. 21+

Tuesday
07/27
GotPoetry Live meets every Tuesday at Blue State Coffee (300 Thayer Street, Providence, RI). Join them from 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. for an open mic and a feature. This week their features will be Wolf Hogekamp, Lars Ruppel and Sebastian 23, from the German Slam Team. $3 cover.

Wednesday
07/28
The Boston Slam at the Cantab Lounge (738 Mass Avenue, Cambridge) holds a reading every Wednesday night starting at 8 p.m. This week they hold an open mic followed by a send-off feature for the Cantab 2010 Slam Team. Special $5 cover tonight. For more info please visit their website. 18+

Thursday
07/29
The WCPA will celebrate the birth of Stanley Kunitz on tonight with an informal reading & discussion. Join them at the WCPA offices (1 Ekamn Street, Worcester) from 7 to 9:00 p.m. Share your favorite Kunitz poems, images and stories. Free and open to the public.

The Little "a" Poetry Series meets on Thursday nights at Dr. Gonzo's All-Natural Mega-Spicy Comestible Emporium (122 Main Street, Worcester). The reading gets started around 8:00 p.m.


Friday
07/30
The Shrewsbury Senior Writers is a group that meets every Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, at the Shrewsbury Senior Center (100 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury). The meeting is open to all, and welcome both you and your contributions.

The Ohm Word Fridays poetry & acoustic music series meets every Friday night at the Feels Like Ohm Coffee Shop (115 Washington Street, West Warwick, RI). They have an open mic, where poets, singers & musicians are allowed 7 minutes to perform 2-3 pieces. This week they hold their monthly Form Slam with the theme being Haiku/Senryu. The sign-up list goes up around 7:00 p.m. Cover is $3. More info is available on their Facebook page.


Saturday
07/31
We couldn't find anything poetic happening in the area tonight. If you are looking for something to do locally check out socialweb.net to see what else is happening in and around Worcester.

Sunday
08/01
The Fruitlands Museum (102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard) will host Sundays@One: Poetry in Flight today from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Poets from the Concord Poetry Center will read avian-inspired works from their own collections as well as some penned by others. Free with museum admission.

Dave Keali'i Join the Poets' Asylum for our regular open mic plus a feature by Dave Keali'i. 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 USO's On Freeways: An Anthology of Pacific Islander Writers from the Continental U.S, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, and Bread Crumb Scabs. 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. 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 by 6:30. No cover; donations accepted to pay the feature.

Additional information on many of these events may be available in the Other Poetry section of this site.

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