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

Rhyme and the rhythmical pounding of words will not die, no matter how hard we try to eliminate them. When sophisticated poetry turns against these elements of verse, they bubble up again from below — ...

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 ...

Ah Nevada, “the enigma in disguise” where people “will prosper and live well” if they only pay attention to the Native American wisdom to “live within her wishes.” That is the essence of Elko County ...

“We invite current and aspiring cowboy poets to enter our regional contests where they can perform their original cowboy poems in person,” said poetry contest chair Ron Wilson of the Lazy T Ranch near ...

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 ...

ELKO, Nev. — JoAnn Hoffman, a worldly California art dealer and model, got smitten with the last man in the world she would have expected--a cowboy from South Dakota. He wooed her with his seductive, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Freshly turned fields, towering basalt walls of the Snake River Canyon and endless blue skies may highlight southern Idaho’s landscape, but poet Chris Riker has been swept up by the wind. Riker, 79, ...