Cowboy poets gather at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada to share stories in verse by and about the women and men who still live the western life of rodeos and ranching. Poetry might not be ...

Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will start Thursday and run through Oct. 8. It’s a weekend filled with music, poetry, a cowboy parade and other events that celebrate the American West. This year, the ...

Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering is celebrating three decades of entertaining this weekend, and Sam Noble has been with it the entire time. “When they first put the Cowboy Poetry Gathering together ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, cowboy poetry has begun to embrace digital platforms as well, allowing poets to reach broader audiences through websites, social media, podcasts, and online publications. While rooted in ...

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 ...

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 Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time Deep in the heart of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, just a few doors down from H Mart and a K-pop music ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The third annual Montana Cowboy Poetry Wintercamp will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 17-19, ...