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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Lanny Page, introducing the speaker at the Fort Morgan Library & Museum’s September Brown Bag Lunch was more than just a routine job duty. Page told the larger-than-usual crowd about the speaker’s ...

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 ...