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 ...

Local poet Rik Goodell had a good year, indeed. He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, "Cowboyin' with God," which was named the 2025 Cowboy Poetry Album ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will keep preserving, celebrating and teaching Western heritage as it aims to make the event more attractive to families and non-cowboys. The group will hold its ...

To pass time and convey life on the range, cowboys crafted folk tales to the cadence of a horse’s clip-clop. These poems capture the rugged essence of cowboy life while evoking images of simpler times ...

Rhyme and the rhythmical pounding of words will not die, no matter how hard we try to eliminate them. When sophisticated poetry turns against these elements of verse, they bubble up again from below — ...

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 ...

GOLDEN • Terry Nash approaches the stage, a yellow bandana fastened around his neck, cowboy hat secured on his head and microphone in hand. On his hip, a leather phone case stamped with his family’s ...

Cowboys and couplets will take the stage in Manhattan on June 10 as they recite all-original cowboy poems and compete for the championship of the 2022 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest. The contest finals ...

On a January morning in northern Nevada, cowgirl Marinna Mori stood in a snow covered corral beckoning her horse Hollywood with a bucket of grain. At age 10, Mori is the fourth generation to live on ...

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, ...