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 ...

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time Deep in the heart of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, just a few doors down from H Mart and a K-pop music ...

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 ...

Without a P.A. system, it was difficult to hear anything while sitting behind the podium, and so, as the cowboy poet R. P. Smith waited for his turn at the mike, arms akimbo and boots on the ground, ...

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 Phippen Museum will welcome the Arizona Cowboy Poets for a Mini Gathering from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 11, at the ...

Twenty years ago, California rancher John Dofflemyer and his bride took their vows surrounded by poets, musicians, storytellers—and cowboys. The setting was the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

They love the land. But few at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering want to talk about how climate change is ravaging the West. Shadd Piehl, Henry Real Bird and Paul Zarzyski perform for a packed ...

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 ...