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Events > > The Poet's Asylum
Asylum update ( 08/13/08 )
Posted by John on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (19:14:38)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum.
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Lea Deschenes Book Release - Thursday, August 14th
The Worcester County Poetry Association wcpa.homestead.com/ will
celebrate the release of Lea Deschenes quantumredhead.com/ ' new
book *The Constant Velocity of Trains* with a *release reading* tomorrow
night, August 14th. Join the author for a reading at the main branch of the
Worcester Public Library ( 3 Salem Square, Worcester ). The reading starts at
7:00 p.m. and Dorinda Wegener will open. Free and open to the public.
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Worcester-MA Poet's Asylum Slam Team Send Off
Posted by chameleon on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (22:06:08)
The 2008 Worcester Slam Team will be the feature Thursday, July 31st at the weekly Hotel Vernon reading (1 Millbury Street, Worcester). Trevor Byrne-Smith, Bobby Gibbs, Erin Jackson, Ryk McIntyre and Adam Stone have spent the time since May finals honing their words, practicing their work and developing group pieces. Please join us for this a showcase of their efforts.
The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. Since this is a bar it is a 21+ event so bring your ID. $5 cover with proceeds supporting the slammers in their efforts to get to Madison, WI.
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Worcester-MA: Regional Slam at Jumpin’ Juice and Java
Posted by John on Sunday, July 27, 2008 (00:51:38)
The Poets' Asylum, Worcester's long-running open reading and poetry slam, is pleased to announce a special event at Jumpin’ Juice and Java. On Sunday, July 27th the Poets’ Asylum will host an open poetry reading followed by a Regional Poetry Slam. The event will run from 6 to 9:00 p.m. Slam teams from greater Boston will compete against the 2008 Worcester Slam Team in a just-for-fun competition of performance poetry.
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MA - Poets Asylum Update
Posted by chameleon on Friday, July 11, 2008 (07:00:00)
Welcome to the newsletter from the Poets' Asylum. Even though the Asylum is
on a unplanned hiatus due to the ongoing venue issues that doesn't mean
there isn't a bunch of excellent poetry happening in the area. Come check
out one of the fun-filled events on Thursday or Friday night to get your
poetry fix.
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MA - Asylum update ( 06/20/08 )
Posted by John on Sunday, June 22, 2008 (01:07:45)
Welcome to the weekly newsletter from the Poets' Asylum.
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No Reading Due to Venue Issues
Due to ongoing issues with the entertainment license at The Q Cafe we have
decided to cancel the reading for the next two weeks. We will work to
reschule the iWPS Qualifier and feature by Ryk McIntyre for dates later in
the year. As you probably have heard it was discovered two weeks ago that
The Q Cafe does not have an entertainment license. They applied for a
license this week, were told to meet with a neighborhood rep to work out
concerns and then come back. Without an entertainment license The Q Cafe
could be shutdown if we continue to hold the reading. All the organizers
loathe canceling another reading however it seems like the best thing to do
at this point in time.
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MA - Asylum update ( 06/12/08 )
Posted by John on Friday, June 13, 2008 (02:21:56)
Welcome to the weekly newsletter from the Poets' Asylum. Some great poetic
events happening over the next few days. Come check them if you have the
time. You won't regret it in the least.
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Tonight @ the Ship
Join the fun tonight at the Hotel Vernon ( 1 Millbury Street, Worcester ) for
*The Spot*. This weekly reading meets in the Kelly Square Yacht Club ( that
room in the back ) and starts at 8:00 p.m. Every Thursday night there will be
an open mic followed by a feature. This week the feature will be
*Duende*with Tony Brown & Faro. No cover but bring money to buy a
beverage and to
support the feature. 21+
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MA - Asylum update ( 06/05/08 )
Posted by John on Friday, June 06, 2008 (17:03:15)
Welcome to the weekly newsletter from the Poets' Asylum.
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Coming up on Sunday, June 8th [ image: Jane Cassady ] This Sunday the Poets'
Asylum welcomes the dynamic duo of *Shanny Jean* and *Jane Cassady* to our
stage. Cassady's new chapbook ( Turtle Ink Press ) is called *A Light
Wallflower Panic*. She's featured at venues in L.A., Providence ( RI ) and
NYC. Jean is a pocket of nervous whose new chapbook ( Turtle Ink Press ) is
called *Homebody Is Where the Heart Is*. She is a baker, wife, legal
assistant and dog owner.
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MA - Asylum update ( 05/22/08 )
Posted by John on Thursday, May 22, 2008 (17:22:50)
Welcome to the weekly newsletter from the Poets' Asylum. Hope to see you
Sunday night!
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Coming up on Sunday, May 25th
It's time for the *2008 Worcester Slam Finals* at the
Poets' Asylum. The top finishers this week will represent Worcester at the 2008
Nationals www.nps2008.com/ being held in Madison, WI in August.
Join us as Adam Stone, Ryk McIntyre, Bobby Gibbs, Trevor Byrne-Smith, Nick
Davis, Erin Jackson, Gary Hoare and Dave Keali'i compete in three rounds of
poetic mayhem. It's bound to be a hot night with great poetry and top rate
performances from everyone.
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MA - Asylum update ( 05/01/08 )
Posted by John on Thursday, May 01, 2008 (19:08:12)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Dave Gibbs will be the feature tonight
( Thursday, May 1st ) at The Spot @ the Hotel Vernon. More info visit
their MySpace
page myspace.com/theship0906 . Here is the rest of this week's
update.
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BSPJ Workshop Sunday Afternoon
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MA - Asylum update ( 04/24/08 )
Posted by John on Thursday, April 24, 2008 (16:50:14)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Another week and National Poetry Month
will be over. What ever will we do. Visit your regularly scheduled reading I
suppose. Here's some of what is happening this weekend.
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WCPA College Poetry Finals
Come out for the first annual Worcester County Poetry
Association wcpa.homestead.com/
*College Poetry Competition Finalists' Reading*. The finalists reading will
be held from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Saxe Room at the Worcester Public
Library ( 1 Salem Square, Worcester ). The winners will be announced at a
reception immediately following the reading.
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Asylum update ( 04/09/08 )
Posted by John on Thursday, April 10, 2008 (18:17:06)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. It's a busy week in Central Mass. poetry.
Here are some of the highlights!
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MA - Asylum update ( 04/04/08 )
Posted by John on Friday, April 04, 2008 (23:01:35)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Happy National Poetry
Month www.poets.org/npm/ !
For the latest on poetic events happening in Centeral Massachusetts and
beyond visit poetsasylum.org.
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24 hour Poetry Feature
*Bill MacMillan* will undertake a 24-hour poetry
feature starting Saturday, April 5th at 8:00 p.m. Bill will read poetry, his
own work and covers, over the following 24 hours, wrapping up as the weekly
Asylum open reading gets underway. The Q Cafe theqma.com/ has
generously agreed to stay open all night long so that Bill may undertake
this endeavor.
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MA - Asylum update ( 03/19/08 )
Posted by John on Saturday, March 22, 2008 (16:55:15)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Spring arrives this week and with it a
hope for better weather. Come join us, rain or shine, for some great poetry
every week.
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Ballard Street Poetry Journal Winter '08 Release
Thursday, March 20th
Please join Ballard Street Poetry
Journal www.ballardstreetpoetryjournal.com/ for the release of
their Winter 2008 issue on Thursday, March 20th. The
release will take place at 1 Ekman Street, Worcester and starts at 7 p.m.
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MA - Asylum update ( 03/14/08 )
Posted by John on Friday, March 14, 2008 (18:02:27)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum. Visit poetsasylum.org for the scoop on the
week in central Mass. poetry.
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Worcester Storytellers - Tonight
Worcester Storytellers meets tonight - Friday, March 14th at the Vasa Hall
( formerly the Village Arts Gallery, 1 Ekman Street, Worcester ). The reading
starts at 8:00 p.m. This month they will hold a *Food-Themed Extravaganza*,
an extended open mic with a theme. Bring your recipes, stories about food &
perhaps a tasty treat to share. Worcester Storytellers never charges a
cover. They ask you throw some money into the basket to support the reading.
For more info please contact Dave Macpherson davemacp @ aol.com .
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MA - Asylum Update 2/9
Posted by chameleon on Saturday, February 09, 2008 (20:21:54)
This week at the *Poets' Asylum* one of our own takes
the stage as our feature. *David Keali'i* is the former host of the Monday
night Community Voices poetry open mic in Westfield MA. He's been published
in a few different places and has featured at venues in Western & Central
MA. He is known for his poetry related to the Hawaiian Islands, gay identity
or his strange desire to conquer vast swathes of the South Pacific.
Please join us at The Q Cafe theqma.com/ ( 362 Chandler Street,
Worcester ). The open mic sign-up list goes out around 7:00 p.m. and the
reading starts closer to 7:30 p.m. No cover; please throw some money in the
bucket to support the feature.
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MA - Poets Asylum Update
Posted by chameleon on Friday, February 01, 2008 (18:21:35)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum.
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Coming up on Sunday, February 3rd
Join the Poets' Asylum this week for *The Klute*, an amazing poet from Mesa,
Arizona. A rare breed of Southern Arizona slam poet, originally raised in
Southern Florida ( however, he's not a native Floridian - rumors trace his
origin back to Illinois ). He abhors use of rhyme schemes in poetry, writing
almost exclusively in free verse. Frequent targets: the goth subculture,
neoconservatism ( especially Dick Cheney ), and crass-commericalism. He was a
member of the 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006 Mesa National Slam teams ( Mesa's
2005 slam champion ) and is the former slammaster of the Mesa Poetry Slam. He
has released two chapbooks of his work: 2002's "Escape Velocity" and 2005's
"Look at What America Has Done to Me".
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MA - Asylum update ( 01/25/08 )
Posted by John on Friday, January 25, 2008 (19:41:26)
Greetings from the Poets' Asylum.
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Coming up on Sunday, January 27th
The Asylum is pleased to welcome back to our stage the fantastic *Regie
Gibson*! Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator Regie
Gibson has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities,
theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries.
Regie is widely published in anthologies, magazines and journals, such as
Power Lines, An Anthology of Poetry along with three Pulitzer-Prize winning
poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Yosef Komunyakaa, and Lisel Mueller.
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MA - Greetings from the Poets' Asylum
Posted by John on Saturday, January 19, 2008 (02:30:11)
Coming up on Sunday, January 20th
This week Poets' Asylum co-founder *Bill
MacMillan*takes the stage as our feature. MacMillan was a member of
the 2007 Worcester
Slam team, is a past trustee of Poetry Slam Inc. ( the organization that
oversees poetry slam ), and works as an arms & armor conservator at Higgins
Armory. He was also a member of the '96 NPS championship team from
Providence, RI. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Providence
Journal, Worcester Magazine, and Omnivore Magazine.
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MA - Poets' Asylum Upcoming Events
Posted by Beverly on Friday, December 28, 2007 (22:32:35)
Welcome to the final Asylum newsletter of 2007. Hope to see you at some of
the great poetry events taking place as the year draws to a close.
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Coming up on Sunday, December 30th
Help us close out 2007 and break-in our new venue this Sunday with a feature
by *Chris Fortin*. Fortin is a poet, musician, deejay, painter, francophile
and street artist who's never been caught. ( shhhhhh...! )
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MA - Java Hut Closing
Posted by John on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 (20:26:12)
You may have heard rumor that the Java Hut is closing. Regrettably the rumor is true. The Java Hut will close following the Winter Semi-final Slam this Sunday, December 23rd. The Java Hut has been an excellent venue for the Poets' Asylum and we will miss their support.
"This just in... starting Sunday, December 30th the Poets' Asylum will meet at The Q, a cafe located at 362 Chandler Street in Worcester.
The owners are excited to have us on their schedule and are working with us to make the transition as smooth as possible. We'll have additional info as we work out the details.
Please help spread the word. And join us this Sunday, December 23rd, at the Java Hut for the Winter Semi-finals and a send-off to the venue that has hosted the Asylum for 10+ years. It will be a night to remember!"
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MA - Worcester - Poets Asylum - Upcoming Events
Posted by Beverly on Friday, December 07, 2007 (19:12:19)
This week the Poets' Asylum welcomes the
fantastic *Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz*. She is the founder of the three-time
National Poetry Slam Championship Venue, NYC-Urbana, which currently calls
the Bowery Poetry Club its home.
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MA - Asylum update ( 11/30/07 )
Posted by John on Sunday, December 02, 2007 (04:50:50)
Welcome to the weekly Asylum newsletter. Here's a look at what is happening
this week at the Poets' Asylum.
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Winter Craft Bizarre and Art Sale
This Sunday, December 2nd, we will run a *Crafts Fair*. Asylum and local
area crafters will be on hand to display and sell their work. The event is
being held at the Java Hut ( 1073A Main Street, Worcester ) and will run from
10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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MA - Poets Asylum Winter Craft Bizarre and Art Sale
Posted by John on Thursday, November 29, 2007 (16:25:52)
This Sunday, December 2nd, we will run a Crafts Fair. Asylum and local area crafters will be on hand to display and sell their work. The event is being held at the Java Hut (1073A Main Street, Worcester) and will run from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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MA - Asylum update ( 11/15/07 )
Posted by John on Saturday, November 17, 2007 (03:09:06)
Welcome to the weekly Asylum newsletter.
Friday night - Worcester Youth Slam
The SpeakOut! Poetry Collective and *Worcester Youth Slam* will meet
tomorrow night, Friday, November 16th, at the Java Hut ( 1073A Main Street,
Worcester ). The open mic list goes up at at 7:15 p.m. and the open reading
starts shortly after that. The slam is open to youth 13-19 years old follows
the open. All you need is two poems if you'd like to perform, there's a
good chance you're gonna make the top three and qualify to represent
Worcester at the Brave New Voices Youth Festival in our nation's capital in
July of next year.
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MA - Asylum update ( 11/09/07 )
Posted by John on Friday, November 09, 2007 (22:09:51)
Welcome to the weekly Asylum newsletter. There's lots of things to share this week. Hope to see you at a poetry event or two!
Tonight - Worcester Storytellers
*Worcester Storytellers* meets on the second Friday of each month at the Village Arts Gallery ( 1 Ekman Street, Worcester ). The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. There will be an open mic followed by a feature from *Jenith Charpentier*.
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