This week, you can win a pair of tickets to see Encore Vocal Arts’ presentation of “Poems and Parables,” featuring a 40-person choir and best-selling author Philip Gulley as guest reader.
The performance takes place Feb. 27 at Meridian Street United Methodist Church.
To enter, just name your favorite poem below. I'll pick one winner at
random.
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I like a lot of Mary Oliver's poems. I wish I could recite one. Hmm...is it too late to make a New Year's resolution?
Oh! But that reminds me that I did resolve to memorize a poem this year: the one that Abraham Lincoln wrote about a bear hunt in Indiana. I read it aloud often when I am sharing Lincoln stories, but I would like to be able to recite it some day.
I found it in a book published a couple of years ago by the Indiana Historical Society. The book is called There I Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth, by William E. Bartelt.
Your question, Lou, also reminds me that I have been meaning to re-read a chapbook poem that I have at home by Indiana poet Bonnie Maurer. I'm sorry, though: all I can remember is that it has "Cows" in the title!
A variation of your question is: if you were going to memorize a poem, which one would it be? I hope a lot of other people answer, too.
Hope Baugh
Indy Theatre Habit
I cannot declare one poem as my favorite but I can share one that I heard on NPR last week that made me cry (I'm sappy): Somebody's Mother.