GOLDEN • Terry Nash approaches the stage, a yellow bandana fastened around his neck, cowboy hat secured on his head and microphone in hand. On his hip, a leather phone case stamped with his family’s ...

Dec. 24—Local poet Rik Goodell had a good year, indeed. He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, "Cowboyin' with God," which was named the 2025 Cowboy ...

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

Eventually, cowboy poetry grew beyond the campfire, and gatherings, festivals, and competitions became popular venues for poets to share their work and connect with audiences who appreciate and enjoy ...

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 ...

For decades, Gene Baldwin was known around Weston County as the “Voice of the Dogies” at Newcastle High School football games ...

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 ...

ENID, Okla. — Jay Snider, “The Cowboy Poet,” will be featured in the final event of Enid Symphony Orchestra and Edward Jones’ Harvest Wine Series on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. The evening of Western ...

He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, “Cowboyin’ with God,” which was named the 2025 Cowboy Poetry Album of the Year. The organization’s Awards of ...