Not at all, says poet Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and a BBC commentator. "I think it's terrific." Gioia, author of the controversial book Can Poetry Matter?, contends ...

April is National Poetry Month. It's also calving season, you know, when cows give birth to their babies. Apparently, someone here has an unfulfilled yearning for ranch life - no shade. But because of ...

Way back when cowboy poetry began with cowboys reciting or improvising verses around campfires during long nights. These poems served various purposes, including entertainment, storytelling, and ...

For the last eight years, Mancos resident and former Fort Lewis College education professor Lindy Simmons has produced an original two-hour Thursday night variety show involving day performers from ...

There’s no place like home. That’s exactly why Bria Hammock, local artist and owner of Westward in downtown Cheyenne, created “Of Here,” an exhibit now on display at Westward. “Of Here” is ...

Cowboy poets gather at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada to share stories in verse by and about the women and men who still live the western life of rodeos and ranching. Poetry might not be ...

Cowboys from across the western United States flocked to the Mesquite Community Theatre for the 13th year of the Mesquite Western Roundup. Poets from Nevada, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming came through to ...

“We invite current and aspiring cowboy poets to enter our regional contests where they can perform their original cowboy poems in person,” said poetry contest chair Ron Wilson of the Lazy T Ranch near ...

Every January, a festival of Western culture and lore takes over this Nevada town. At the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, wranglers turned writers spend a week reading from ...

DEMING – Totsie Slover, host of “The Real West from the Old West” radio show on 1230AM on KOTS in Deming, is proud to present three talented, entertaining Cowboy Poets Wednesday evening, February 6 at ...

Baxter Black, a onetime veterinarian who turned to storytelling as a columnist, novelist, NPR commentator, traveling bard of the West and America’s foremost cowboy poet, died June 10 at his ranch near ...