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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A chilly predawn darkness blankets the small cowboy camp called Twin Buttes, a cedar-covered knoll in the high desert of northwest Arizona. Another day of the fall roundup at the Double O Ranch begins ...

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- ...

Not every country song or cowboy poem includes a list like Tom T. Hall’s: “I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks, slow-moving trains, and rain…” but cowboy poets and songwriters continue to ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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