Cowboy Poetry allows poets reflect on the lifestyle of cattle ranching and western tall tales told around a campfire. The 2018 Kansas cowboy poetry competition held on June 8th at the Discovery center ...

Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will start Thursday and run through Oct. 8. It’s a weekend filled with music, poetry, a cowboy parade and other events that celebrate the American West. This year, the ...

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 ...

ELKO — Paul Zarzyski is a Montana poet at home in this Northern Nevada town, but he has been to Las Vegas, too. That’s where he, shall we say, did the research for his poem called “Pomes.” He’s a ...

KEYSTONE – Baxter Black, cowboy poet, comedian and starvin’ cattle feeder, rides into town with his hilarious, poignant musings on rural life. Black has spun tales of ranching life on “The Tonight ...

There’s something timeless about a cowboy’s story–tales told under starlit skies, woven with humor, grit, and the quiet strength of life on the range. On Wednesday, July 30, the Utah County Fair will ...

Oklahoma cowboy Pete King won both the serious and humorous divisions of the 2025 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest—the fifth time in the 15-year history of the contest that the same person won both.

Cowboy poetry is one of my efforts. I do my best, but sometimes when I am in the Corn Belt or entertaining the Western Pistachio Growers, I'm asked why I don't do more farmer poetry? I try to explain ...

Songs and lore of the West will be performed and recited Sunday at the 27th annual Cowboy Poetry & Music Gathering at Sherwood Hall in Salinas. The event celebrates the tradition of music and tales ...

Lynn Phillips sits in the living room of his home dressed in his hospital scrubs waiting to be called back to the hospital, as he talks about his new CD of cowboy poetry. “It started out as a form of ...

Marc Bradshaw finds inspiration for poetry in some of the simplest life experiences — including ordering curly fries. “My wife and I walk into a Jack in the Box restaurant and order a sandwich,” ...

The 2025 finals of the annual Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest will be at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, KS at 7 p.m. July 25, on the eve of the National Day of the Cowboy. At the finals, ...