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 ...

The event brought together more than 30 performers from across the country for three days of sessions, songs and poems.

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, ...

RED BLUFF – As the Red Bluff Round-Up fast approaches, three featured poets will perform in celebration of the Western way of life. Others who want to participate are invited to join in. The 32nd ...

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 ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Greetings from the ranch, where I rolled in after midnight following a 24-hour travel day from Elko, Nevada, where I spent a long weekend performing and catching up with friends ...

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...

Cowboys and cowgirls, the 37th Durango Cowboy Gathering has a weekend planned for you! The Gathering kicked off Wednesday and runs through Saturday night. And the schedule between today and Saturday ...

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, ...

His wide-ranging work, including books, speeches and regular appearances on NPR, celebrated cowpokes, feed lots and life on the range. By Clay Risen Baxter Black, the country’s best-known cowboy poet, ...