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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Ah Nevada, “the enigma in disguise” where people “will prosper and live well” if they only pay attention to the Native American wisdom to “live within her wishes.” That is the essence of Elko County ...

Today, I begin a journal, an Elko journal. Elko, Nev., is the home of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. In Part I of this journal, I mention Waddie Mitchell, a cowboy poet who comes from Elko. A ...

Terry Nash’s most requested poem is “A Cowman’s Lot.” “I can never do a gathering without reciting that poem,” Nash said. It’s about a heifer giving birth to her first calf and the cowboy watching ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado ” Nona Kelley Carver started writing poetry by accident ” literally. Along with her husband, Alfred, and their two sons, Carver ranched and ran a dairy farm in Mesa for many ...

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 ...

KEARNEY — R.P. Smith usually draws from his daily life for ideas for poems — but he also pulls from long ago. “I’ve always tried to be diverse, but most of my subject matter comes from family and ...

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, ...

He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, “Cowboyin’ with God,” which was named the 2025 Cowboy Poetry Album of the Year. The organization’s Awards of ...