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Palouse Country Cowboy Poetry Association will give a performance of love songs and poetry at the Dahmen Barn Sunday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. Admission will be $8 at the door.

Performers will be Hal Olson, John Seltzer, Maxine Larson, Elliot Marks, Orvil Sears and Dave Wahl. Dave Nordquist will be the emcee and Bodie Dominguez is handling the sound.

In 1991 Baxter Black, probably today’s best known cowboy poet, told a group of Palouse country enthusiasts gathered in Asotin that cowboy poetry was the fastest growing western cultural activity and that they should get in...