Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 24—Local poet Rik Goodell had a good year, indeed. He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for ...

Poet Terry Nash walks on stage to perform his poetry during the first session of the 34th anniversary of the Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, at the Buffalo Rose Event Center in ...

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 ...

Distinguished West Texas A&M alumnus, poet and singer Red Steagall enchanted an audience of over 300 Thursday with his stories and songs of the American West at the campus’s Legacy Hall. Steagall was ...

Cowboy poets gather at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada to share stories in verse by and about the women and men who still live the western life of rodeos and ranching. Poetry might not be ...

There’s no place like home. That’s exactly why Bria Hammock, local artist and owner of Westward in downtown Cheyenne, created “Of Here,” an exhibit now on display at Westward. “Of Here” is ...

Cowboy poet Larry Maurice will read his poetry and lead a workshop from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, May 22, in the Blanchard Room of the Stephens Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St. in Davis. Maurice is a cowboy, ...

Baxter Black, a onetime veterinarian who turned to storytelling as a columnist, novelist, NPR commentator, traveling bard of the West and America’s foremost cowboy poet, died June 10 at his ranch near ...

He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, “Cowboyin’ with God,” which was named the 2025 Cowboy Poetry Album of the Year. The organization’s Awards of ...