This week on the show, we're hearing from Francine Robison and D.J. Fry, two out of the more than 20 cowboy poets and musicians who performed at the 15th Annual Missouri Cowboy Poetry and Music ...

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 ...

If y”all are getting tired of the same old holiday routine, why not saddle up and ride on down to Old Monterey to celebrate a different tradition — specifically, a Western-style celebration of cowboy ...

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 ...

Without a P.A. system, it was difficult to hear anything while sitting behind the podium, and so, as the cowboy poet R. P. Smith waited for his turn at the mike, arms akimbo and boots on the ground, ...

The 31st Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering was held last month in Alpine on the campus of Sul Ross State University. Preserving the proud tradition of the American West in words and music is its purpose.

Editor’s note: In her Ad Astra Poetry Project, Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low highlights historic and contemporary poets who resided in Kansas for a substantial part of their lives. Eventually, she ...

Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. It’s been over 125 years since the ...

When Tom Swearingen wrote his first poem to remember a friend who had died, he didn’t consider himself a poet. But the small group of friends and family he read it to told him to keep writing. He did, ...

From her home near Mesa, Nona Kelly Carver pointed to where the old ranch house once stood. The house had been home to four generations of Carvers, but it deteriorated and was burned down in a fire- ...

I'm *** reporter on the 6 o'clock news, but I've always wanted to run with the big buckaroos, so I'll lay down my pad and pin for *** while and try to do things cowboy style. The Sunday shirt dressed ...