Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. It’s been over 125 years since the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 24—Local poet Rik Goodell had a good year, indeed. He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for ...

Oklahoma's poet laureate will perform cowboy poetry written by himself and others Monday in Claremore. Jay Snider, a horse ...

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, ...

Dick Gibford \. In his new film, Cowboy Meditations, Santa Barbara’s Gary Milliken follows lifelong cowboy and poet Dick ...

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The 2026 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest is now accepting entries. Regional contests are set for May 15 in Hays and June 6 in ...

I'm *** reporter on the 6 o'clock news, but I've always wanted to run with the big buckaroos, so I'll lay down my pad and pin for *** while and try to do things cowboy style. The Sunday shirt dressed ...

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 ...