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 ...
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 ...
Jul. 24—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 ...
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, ...
This non-profit organization began in December 1988 when several cowboy poets in southern Idaho put it together. J B Barber recently became president of the group, whose members create cowboy poetry ...
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Cowboy poets continue rich tradition of music, storytelling and poetry at annual gathering
REXBURG — For 30 years, the annual Teton Western Music and Cowboy Poetry gathering has brought together musicians, poets, and storytellers to celebrate the rich heritage of the American West. After ...
OGDEN, Utah (AP) - At 14 years old and 5 feet 5 inches tall, cowboy poet Thatch Elmer may have to physically look up to many of his cohorts, but there are plenty who admiringly look up to him. His ...
Jon Chandler didn’t grow up on a ranch, but the seventh-generation Coloradan feels the mountains and the plains of his native state in his bones. As he stood in a hat and boots on stage Sunday at the ...
A warm blend of western tradition and festive cheer is coming to Watson Trinity United Church as musicians Larry Krause and John Tilley team up for Timberline Christmas, a special afternoon ...
ELKO — The worn spurs on his dust-covered leather boots clink with every step. Tucked into his faded blue jeans, his white button-down shirt billows, held in by a leather belt with a classic gold ...
Can't find that Iroquois dance music you were searching for on iTunes? No folk songs about Nebraska on Napster? Not to fear, the Smithsonian Institution is adopting a pay-per-download model as a new ...
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