Lewistown will host the 40th Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering & Western Music Rendezvous, Aug. 6-9, 2026. As featured poet Rik ...

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 ...

Oklahoma cowboy Pete King won both the serious and humorous divisions of the 2025 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest—the fifth time in the 15-year history of the contest that the same person won both.

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 ...

Rooted in the traditions of ranch life, horsemanship, and the challenges faced by those who call the frontier their home, cowboy poetry stands as a testament to the resilience, humor, and true, ...

Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will start Thursday and run through Oct. 8. It’s a weekend filled with music, poetry, a cowboy parade and other events that celebrate the American West. This year, the ...

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, ...

On April 11, Glenwood Springs-based author Nancy Bo Flood received the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western ...

Editor’s Note: In the last week of January, Jay Nordlinger attended the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev. Here are the first three parts of his journal: I, II, and III. The journal ...