Sunday, August 7, is the annual Favorite Poem Service! This popular event follows a simple format: A person stands before the congregation, tells why a particular poem is important in their life, and then reads or recites the poem. This home-grown service is part performance art, part anthology, and every Favorite Poem Service intimately shows how poetry influences and nourishes our lives. Over the years, readers have ranged in age from 8 to 88 and the poetry featured has been deliciously diverse in subject, form, and delivery. This year’s poems were written by a wide range of artists, from humorists and rock musicians to Polish Resistance nurses.