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 ...

The 2026 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest is now accepting entries. Regional contests are set for May 15 in Hays and June 6 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oklahoma's poet laureate will perform cowboy poetry written by himself and others Monday in Claremore. Jay Snider, a horse ...

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 ...

For 30 years, the Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering has been the highlight of the fall season in Durango. This year it will be Oct. 4-7 at the Strater Hotel. Forty cowboy poets and musicians descend ...

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 ...

(KUTV) A teenage cowboy is wowing crowds with his master cowboy poetry skills. Thatch Elmer has been doing cowboy poetry since he was nine years old. He considers himself a genuine, old-fashioned ...

The 2021 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest is being conducted online, and poets are invited to enter the contest and post videos of them presenting their self-written cowboy poems. Contestants from any ...