Cowboy Poetry allows poets reflect on the lifestyle of cattle ranching and western tall tales told around a campfire. The 2018 Kansas cowboy poetry competition held on June 8th at the Discovery center ...

HOT SPRINGS, SD – “Toughest competition they’ve ever had!” That’s a comment heard several times over during the two day rodeo event. The 10th annual World’s Only National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo was held ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of folks wearing cowboy hats, and lots of bling on cowgirls spurred themselves forward to raise money in support Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL). If you are not a cowpoke, you still got ...

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 ...

For the fourth time in the 14-year history of the Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest, the same person won both the serious and humorous divisions at the 2024 state championship. Betty Burlingham of ...

Songs and lore of the West will be performed and recited Sunday at the 27th annual Cowboy Poetry & Music Gathering at Sherwood Hall in Salinas. The event celebrates the tradition of music and tales ...

The 2025 finals of the annual Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest will be at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, KS at 7 p.m. July 25, on the eve of the National Day of the Cowboy. At the finals, ...

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 — ...

On a January morning in northern Nevada, cowgirl Marinna Mori stood in a snow covered corral beckoning her horse Hollywood with a bucket of grain. At age 10, Mori is the fourth generation to live on ...