title: For the Comfort of Automated Phrases
author:  Jane Cassady 
description: Jane Cassady probably wants to hug you. She writes "Poetic License Horoscopes" for Sibling Rivalry Press, <em>The Legendary</em>, and <em>Critical Mass</em>, the Philadelphia City Paper's arts and culture blog. Her poems "In 1992," "Almost Immediately," "It Got Better" and "For the Comfort of Automated Phrases" can be heard on Indiefeed: Performance Poetry. She has been featured in <em>decomP</em>, <em>The Ballard Street Poetry Journal</em>, <em>Lavender Review</em>, and other journals. She has performed at such venues as LouderArts in New York City, Valley Contemporary Poets in Los Angeles, and The Encyclopedia Show in Chicago. She also writes a blog about happiness, love, and pop- culture called The Serotonin Factory.
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