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.

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 ...

Cowboy Poetry allows poets reflect on the lifestyle of cattle ranching and western tall tales told around a campfire. The 2018 Kansas cowboy poetry competition held on June 8th at the Discovery center ...

ELKO — Paul Zarzyski is a Montana poet at home in this Northern Nevada town, but he has been to Las Vegas, too. That’s where he, shall we say, did the research for his poem called “Pomes.” He’s a ...

HOT SPRINGS, SD – “Toughest competition they’ve ever had!” That’s a comment heard several times over during the two day rodeo event. The 10th annual World’s Only National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo was held ...

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, ...

Last week he headlined at Grainstock – Woodstock for agriculture folk in Soda Springs, Idaho – and now cowboy poet and humorist Baxter Black is set to perform in San Juan Capistrano this weekend.

Hundreds of folks wearing cowboy hats, and lots of bling on cowgirls spurred themselves forward to raise money in support Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL). If you are not a cowpoke, you still got ...

Stories of fertile bulls and peeing on electric fences drew belly laughs and a song about campfire waltzes brought on the sighs last weekend at the 30th annual Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering in ...

Marc Bradshaw finds inspiration for poetry in some of the simplest life experiences — including ordering curly fries. “My wife and I walk into a Jack in the Box restaurant and order a sandwich,” ...