Cowboy poetry will fill the C.L. Hoover Opera House tonight as they present ‘Trey Allen: An Evening in the Bunkhouse’.

Local Cowboy Poet Trey Allen will be joined on stage by fellow Cowboy Poet Jessica Hedges of Paisley, OR, and Cowboy Singer Justin Reichert of McPherson tonight starting at 7 pm.

Allen explained that Cowboy Poetry has been around as long as the Cowboy,”but theirs been a renewed interest in it since the mid ’80s.”

“Every so often, you know, things will kind of taper off, but there will be another resurgence, if you will. Folks get interested in it, another generation picks it up. It’s just something that once you get involved in it, it’s kind of like an illness. It’s kind of hard to shake I guess,” said Allen.

Allen has brought in Jessica Hedges to perform some of her own Cowboy Poetry. She gave JCPost.com a sneak preview.

“Their Buckarooing out across this great mason land,
  Their punching them high headed cattle in the southwest,
  Their dodging timber through the hills in hot pursuit,
  While putting the tradition of their discipline to the test.”

Tickets for tonight’s show can be purchased at the Opera House Box Office. They are $12 a piece and children 12 and under are free.