I am holding a Thanksgiving food drive this coming Tuesday to benefit those whom need assistance this Thanksgiving. The event is at Walgreens, 225 Boston Turnpike, Shrewsbury, MA from 8am - 10pm. Anyone whom donates will be entered into a raffle to win a $25 Walgreens gift card. Please share the word and help out a great cause!
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This week the Poets' Asylum welcomes John "Survivor" Blake as our feature. This is John "Survivor" Blake's sixth year on the poetry scene, second year of sobriety, sixth and seventh chapbooks, and fourth national tour, John is about living in the now! He is a heroin addict/alcoholic turned writer, spoken word artist, lecturer and youth advocate. ( Read more... )

Join the Poets' Asylum this week for a Back-to-School Slam, a spotlight performance by Tara Harding and a Bake Sale! Members of the 2011 Worcester Youth Slam team will compete against area educators for props and prizes. This event will benefit the Youth Slam to help pay off some of their expenses from their most recent trip to the Brave New ( Read more... )

Calling all Slam poets in the region. This week the Poets' Asylum will host a Big Money Slam and the winner will walk away with $100! We are hoping to attract some of the best slam poets in the region to the WCUW Front Room (910 Main Street, Worcester) for this two round bout with a big pay-off. Someone is going to go home with some extra cash in ( Read more... )

The Poets' Asylum will kick off September with the iWPS Rep Selection Slam. Eight competing poets will take part in a 4 round slam with 1, 2, 3 and 4 minute rounds. The usual rules (no props, randomly chosen judges, etc.) apply. The winner will represent Worcester in the Individual World Poetry Slam, taking place in Cleveland, OH in October. ( Read more... )

Join the Poets' Asylum this week for the Send-off Feature of the 2011 Worcester Slam Team. They've been refining, practicing and tweaking their poetry and performance since they won the chance to represent Worcester back in April. Come down and hear their voices once again as Brandi MacDonald, Bill MacMillan, Bobby Gibbs, Alex Charalambides and ( Read more... )

The Poets' Asylum closes out July with a feature by Lesley Wheeler. Wheeler is a poet and teacher who currently lives in Iowa City. She grew up in Worcester and attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, she is a first-year MFA student in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as well as a Rhetoric instructor. Some of the poets she ( Read more... )

We hope you come down to the Poets' Asylum this week and hear the next generation of slam poets as the 2011 Worcester Youth Slam Team takes the stage. They have been working hard since making the team and this is your chance to hear their work. The youth team will be participating in the Brave New Voices International Youth Festival next week in ( Read more... )

This week the Poets' Asylum will host a Regional Slam. Teams from the Providence, Manchester and the Cantab will come to Worcester this week to show off their chops and get in a bit of live Nationals-style practice. It is a little taste of the fun that will descend upon Boston & Cambridge in August when the 2011 National Poetry Slam rolls into ( Read more... )

Summertime is when the Poets' Asylum chooses a rep to send to the Individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS) Championships. Tonight we'll hold the first of two iWPS Qualifying Slams. The top two finishers in each qualifier will join members of the 2011 Worcester Slam team as part of the Worcester iWPS rep finals in August. The qualifiers will consist of ( Read more... )