Local poet Rik Goodell had a good year, indeed. He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, "Cowboyin' with God," which was named the 2025 Cowboy Poetry Album ...

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 ...

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 ...

April is National Poetry Month. It's also calving season, you know, when cows give birth to their babies. Apparently, someone here has an unfulfilled yearning for ranch life - no shade. But because of ...

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 ...

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There’s something timeless about a cowboy’s story–tales told under starlit skies, woven with humor, grit, and the quiet strength of life on the range. On Wednesday, July 30, the Utah County Fair will ...

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.

The Eagle County Historical Society is hosting a night of cowboy poetry and music on May 11 at 4 Eagle Ranch, calling back to Eagle County’s roots. Cowboy poetry arises out of the Western tradition of ...

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 ...

Reporting from Elko, Nev. — Generally, the pace is pretty slow ‘round Elko, a community of 36,000 set against the backdrop of the Ruby Mountains about four hours east of Reno. But for eight days every ...

I'm *** reporter on the 6 o'clock news, but I've always wanted to run with the big buckaroos, so I'll lay down my pad and pin for *** while and try to do things cowboy style. The Sunday shirt dressed ...