From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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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 ...

ALPINE — With clever poems about rotted dead jack rabbits, rural married life and a would-be Rooster Cogburn, Elizabeth Ebert lit up a packed auditorium at Sul Ross University. One of the grand dames ...

FARMINGTON — Linda Mannix and her husband have ranched in the Durango, Colo., area for decades. In that time, they’ve seen the town evolve from largely a ranching, agricultural and mining community to ...