featured on Library Poetry Tour

awarded annually to a poet for lifetime achievement and service to the Central Massachusetts poetry community.

ble nonprofit who believes the arts and education are essential to creating a vibrant, healthy community and world.

The mission of the Shawna Foundation is to equitably promote and support students through scholarship and showcase artists in filmmaking, performance arts, poetry and other creative endeavors with a focus on underrepresented communities.

For more information visit the shawnafoundation.org

New England Country Music Club dances

The New England Country Music Club has announced their upcoming November events. On Sunday, Nov. 5th, "rachel Landry" will perform and on Sunday, Nov. 19th, "Ambush" will play. Doors open at 12:15 p.m., music 1-5 p.m.

The dances will take place at The Progressive Club located at 18 Whitin St., North Uxbridge. FMI: www. Facebook.com/NE CountryMusicClub.

The Shawna Foundation continues The Library Poetry Tour in November with poet Heather Macpherson, at the Milford Town Library and the Uxbridge Free Library.

Heather J. Macpherson writes poems and prose. Her work has appeared in Soundings East, The Carolina Quarterly, Variant Lit, Bennington review, 580 Split, Blueline, and other fine places. She and co-editor Francesca Borrione have an edited collection of academic essays called Voicing the Less Dead forthcoming from Lexington Books in 2024. Heather teaches writing at Clark University.

The reading is hosted by Tony Brown, the winner of the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Medal, endowed by the late U.S. Poet Laureate and Worcester native and

The readings will be held on November 8th, 7 p.m. at the Milford Town Library and November 16th, 7 p.m. at the Uxbridge Free Library. The program is financed in part by the Milford Cultural Council, the Uxbridge Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

The Shawna E. Shea Memorial Foun- dation, Inc is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit who believes the arts and education are essential to creating a vibrant, healthy community and world.

The mission of the Shawna Foundation is to equitably promote and support students through scholarship and showcase artists in filmmaking, performance arts, poetry and other creative endeavors with a focus on underrepresented communities.

FMI visit: theshawnafoundation.org.