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 ...

Stories of fertile bulls and peeing on electric fences drew belly laughs and a song about campfire waltzes brought on the sighs last weekend at the 30th annual Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering in ...

R.P. Smith waits to take the stage on March 9, 2018, at the Merryman Performing Arts Center in Kearney, Nebraska. R.P. Smith steps out of his home on his ranch near Broken Bow, Nebraska. “I’m a better ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

One night in a suite at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, after a March of Dimes fund-raiser honoring a Denver Post columnist, the late Red Fenwick, Slim Pickens recited a long and supremely bawdy ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...