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Newest: Dennis Gaines' A Cowboy for the Cure Tour";
B. J. Rickard's The World of Horses;Jonah by Andy Nelson and Nikki Mann;Western Folklife Center Ranch Rhymes
podcast; A Prairie Home Companion; Western Way on the web;
Wylie Gustafson,Western Horseman
cover story;
I.M. Cowgirl; RATTLE
deadline;
Reports from the National Folk Festival; American Cowboy "Tribute to Cowboy Legends";
Rod Miller in the Salt Lake Tribune; Will Rogers Medallion Award winners;
Red Steagall among "Top 15 Cowboys" in Cowboys &
Indians magazine; The Ranching Way of Life DVD;
Randy Rieman in Western Horseman;
Rod Miller's Massacre At Bear River: First,
Worst, Forgotten;
Prix de West;
Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival; and
many more news items...
Newest: Picture
the West; Jeri Dobrowski's
Cowboy
Jam Session;Before the Song; Rick Huff's Western
Air; Rope
Burns' cowboy poetry column; Weigh
in on the economy; Sharlot
Hall;an open letter from Carole Jarvis about the lack of
poetry in Western publications; Rick
Huff reviews;Patty Clayton;Performer Directory; Open Range; Rod Miller's "Free Range and Barbwire"; and
much more ...
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News: Cowboy Culture Corner; The Western Hour; Clear Out West (C.O W.);
Western Way charts; Calling
All Cowboys; Radio Ranch; Cowboy
Magazine review;Radio Ranch; Joe Baker's Backforty Roundup;
Rick
Huff's review; and more ...
The 2008,
third-annual
compilation CD includes tracks by Robert
Service, Red Steagall, Wallace McRae, Paul Zarzyski, Randy
Rieman, Ross Knox, Jerry Brooks, Buck Ramsey, Joel Nelson, Ken
Cook, Doris Daley, DW Groethe, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Paul Kern, Linda
Kirkpatrick, Deanna Dickinson McCall, Andy Nelson, Susan Parker,
Pat Richardson, Georgie Sicking, Bill Siems, Jay Snider, Rhonda
Sedgwick Stearns, Hal Swift, Mick Vernon, and Smoke Wade.
S. Omar Barker, Jay Snider, Alf Bilton, and
George Russell. Previously:
Allen McCandless, Al Mehl, Doug Brewer,
Paul Kern,
Hal Swift,
Michael Henley, V. June Blevins Collins, Buzz Helfert, Robert
V. Carr, Mike Puhallo,John R. Yaws,
Al Mehl, Diane Tribitt,
Lawrence Swearingen, Patti Leininger, Pat
Stephenson, Bruce Kiskaddon, Jody Fergerstrom, Mike Puhallo,
Jay Snider, Sam DeLeeuw,
Buck Ramsey, Stuart Hooker, Kip Sorlie, Tex Tumbleweed, Jim Ross,
Tom Nichols, Robert Boyle, and C.W. (Charles) Bell,Sharlot Hall, Mike Puhallo, Sam Jackson, and poems and lyrics for
the Fourth of July from DW Groethe, RW Hampton, Yvonne Hollebeck,
Chris Isaacs, Hal Swift, and the late Rod Nichols Daniel Bybee,
Janie Lee Moor, Slim McNaught, Jerry Schleicher, Mag Mawhinney, Jack Horan, Doris Daley.
Mike Puhallo, Ed Nesselhuf, Verlin Pitt, Byrl Keith Chadwell, Dave
P. Fisher, and
many more ...
Newest: Dennis Gaines' "Cowboy for the Cure Tour"; Around the Campfire with Ed and Terry;
Moorcroft, Wyoming Riding 4 the Brand Cowboy Poetry
Gathering;
Western Music Association My Space audio and video; Tioga's
Western Trade Days seeks poets, storytellers, and musicians;
Arizona poets; Ralph's Back Porch;
Calling All Cowboys radio; BAR-D Directory of Poets and Musicians updated; Michael Martin Murphey seeks photographs; I.M. Cowgirl seeks submissions; Ron Hauser, Missouri Western culture festival; and many more.....
Previous weeks:
Paul Kern's tribute to Utah rancher Joe Mascaro; Smoke Wade's vintage photos and recollections around log troughs;
Views from Diane Tribitt's Minnesota ranch; Californian Susan Parker's photos of Bodie;
A vintage Fourth of July photo from Jeri Dobrowski; Arizonan Lori
Faith Merritt's mustang photos; Wyoming's Jean Mathisen Haugen's family stories and Western
history; Oregon's Byrl Keith Chadwell's Eastern Oregon pack trip; Oklahoman Janice Chapman's family of horses; Wyoming's Andy Nelson's three generations of farriers; Alberta's Bryan Smith shares photos of the backcountry in Banff
National Park;
a special Memorial Day tribute in memory of Cpl. Josiah Hollopeter
to all who have given their lives in military service; Wyoming rancher and photographer Nicky Groenewold: coyotes and
cows; Oklahoma rancher and poet Jay Snider's ranger-detective
grandfather;
New Mexico poet, songwriter, and cowboy Mike Moutoux's photos of
his country; and
many, many more...
Newest: Hal
Swift; Rodney Nelson; Jeri Dobrowksi, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns, Jan Swan Wood,
and Robert Dennis in Tri-State Livestock News Fall Horse
Roundup; Dave P. Fisher; Charles M. Russell paintings; Absaroka article; Jerry
Schleicher; Mike Puhallo; Jeff Streeby; Hal
Swift; Dave P. Fisher; Linda
Kirkpatrick; Yvonne
Hollenbeck; Juni
Fisher; Rodney
Nelson; Jerry Schleicher; Jim Thompson; Harold Roy
Miller; Andy
Nelson; new WMA web site; Doris
Daley; RW
Hampton, Mike Beck, Dave Stamey and others in Cowboys & Indians;
Jo
Lynne Kirkwood; Jeri Dobrowski, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns in Ag
Pride;
and many
more...
Around
the Campfire with Ed and Terry; Brenn
Hill on What's in a Song; Western Folklife Center's Ranch Rhymes;
A Prairie
Home Companion; Marvin O'Dell's
DJ contact list; Joe Baker's
Backforty Roundup; Ken Overcast's The Cowboy Show
newsletter;
Poetry on
B. J. Rickard's The World of Horses
13;Clear Out West (C.O.W.)
Special "Stay-at-Home" benefits, updated; Rick Huff's Western Air; Joe Baker's Backforty Bunkhouse newsletter;
Radio Ranch; Dave Stamey on Calling All
Cowboys;Radio Ranch;
Ralph's Back Porch Live365 show; Jerry Brooks on Ranch Rhymes;
Belinda Gail audio
postcard with Ken Overcast; Yvonne Hollenbeck, Rodney Nelson, and Randy Rieman on Ranch
Rhymes;
Ralph's Back Porch;
Calling All Cowboys;
and more ...
Newest: J.D. Seibert's Cowboy Poetry CD; Jonah by Andy Nelson and Nikki Mann;
Al Mehl's I'd Rather Be...;
Mike Moutoux's Spirits Still Remain CD;
Linda Kirkpatrick's latest Somewhere in the West chapbook; Jerry Schleicher's The Missouri Matador CD;
Ray Owens' Tracks That Won't Blow Out; Janice
Gilbertson's Sometimes, in the Lucias;
Kerry Grombacher's It Sings in the Hi-Line;
Golden Spike Festival compilation CD;
Ray
Doyle's The Emigrant Trail;
Mag
Mawhinney's Passin' it On CD;
and
many more ...
Newest:
Joan Stauffer's Behind Every Man, the Story of Nancy Cooper Russell;
Willard Wyman's High Country;Best of Covered Wagon Women; The Ranching Way of Life
DVD;
Rod Miller's Massacre At Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten;
Echo Klaproth's Words Turn Silhouette and Scattered, Lasting
Remnants;
Horses That Buck;
Andy and the Albino Horse; Molly the Pony; Hank Snow's
Tales of the Yukon CD;
and more...
Art inspires poetry.Featuring "Learnin' the
Ropes," a photograph by Wyoming rancher and
photographer Chanda Snook, in
celebration of the National Day of the Cowboy (July
26, 2008). Selected poems are byAl Mehl, Diane Tribitt,
Lawrence Swearingen, and Patti Leininger. Read the poems
and more about the photo
here.
The previous
Art Spur featured
"Waxed Jacket," by William Matthews, the
subject of our 2008 Cowboy Poetry Week poster. Selected poems are by Ken Cook,
Diane Tribitt, Al Mehl, Glen Enloe, Jerry Schleicher, Michael Henley, Merv
Webster, and Clark Crouch.
Newest:
Smoke Wade's "The
Log Trough"; Jean Mathisen Haugen's "Great-Great Grandpa Gambled—With a Ranch and a
Daughter"; Smoke Wade's "1952
Hashknife Branding"; Smoke Wade's "The
Joseph Creek School House"; Bruce Matley's
"The Matley Ranch—"The Ranch That I Can't See"; Jean Mathisen
Haugen's "Saga of the Old NC Brand Continues for 123 Years"
Newest: Past
United
States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry;Classical
Baby (I'm Grown Up Now) Emmy nomination; Kay
Ryan named U.S. Poet Laureate; Poetry
Out Loud winners; Gary
Snyder wins Lilly Prize; Poetry
Everywhere; Poetry Foundation/HBO poetry show; Ruth Lilly
Poetry Fellowships;
and more ...
See a complete list
of features at the BAR-D here.
Newest: Dennis Gaines' A Cowboy for the Cure Tour";
B. J. Rickard's The World of Horses;Jonah by Andy Nelson and Nikki Mann;
Western Folklife Center Ranch Rhymes
podcast; A Prairie Home Companion; Western Way on the web;
Wylie Gustafson, Western Horseman
cover story;
I.M. Cowgirl; RATTLE
deadline;
Reports from the National Folk Festival; American Cowboy "Tribute to Cowboy Legends";
Rod Miller in the Salt Lake Tribune; Will Rogers Medallion Award winners;
Red Steagall among "Top 15 Cowboys" in Cowboys &
Indians magazine; The Ranching Way of Life DVD;
Randy Rieman in Western Horseman;
Rod Miller's Massacre At Bear River: First,
Worst, Forgotten;
Prix de West;
Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival; and
many more news items...
Newest: Picture
the West; Jeri Dobrowski's
Cowboy
Jam Session; Before the Song; Rick Huff's Western
Air; Rope
Burns' cowboy poetry column; Weigh
in on the economy; Sharlot
Hall; an open letter from Carole Jarvis about the lack of
poetry in Western publications; Rick
Huff reviews; Patty Clayton; Performer Directory; Open Range; Rod Miller's "Free Range and Barbwire"; and
much more ...
Your
support is essential to CowboyPoetry.com.
Be an
important part of CowboyPoetry.com, Cowboy Poetry Week, the Rural
Library Project, and all of the activities of the Center for
Western and Cowboy Poetry. 
S. Omar Barker, Jay Snider, Alf Bilton, and
George Russell. Previously:
Allen McCandless, Al Mehl, Doug Brewer,
Paul Kern,
Hal Swift,
Michael Henley, V. June Blevins Collins, Buzz Helfert, Robert
V. Carr, Mike Puhallo,John R. Yaws,
Al Mehl, Diane Tribitt,
Lawrence Swearingen, Patti Leininger, Pat
Stephenson, Bruce Kiskaddon, Jody Fergerstrom, Mike Puhallo,
Jay Snider, Sam DeLeeuw,
Buck Ramsey, Stuart Hooker, Kip Sorlie, Tex Tumbleweed, Jim Ross,
Tom Nichols, Robert Boyle, and C.W. (Charles) Bell, Sharlot Hall, Mike Puhallo, Sam Jackson, and poems and lyrics for
the Fourth of July from DW Groethe, RW Hampton, Yvonne Hollebeck,
Chris Isaacs, Hal Swift, and the late Rod Nichols Daniel Bybee,
Janie Lee Moor, Slim McNaught, Jerry Schleicher, Mag Mawhinney, Jack Horan, Doris Daley.
Mike Puhallo, Ed Nesselhuf, Verlin Pitt, Byrl Keith Chadwell, Dave
P. Fisher, and
many more ...
Newest:
Newest: Hal
Swift; Rodney Nelson; Jeri Dobrowksi, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns, Jan Swan Wood,
and Robert Dennis in Tri-State Livestock News Fall Horse
Roundup; Dave P. Fisher; Charles M. Russell paintings; Absaroka article; Jerry
Schleicher; Mike Puhallo; Jeff Streeby; Hal
Swift; Dave P. Fisher; Linda
Kirkpatrick; Yvonne
Hollenbeck; Juni
Fisher; Rodney
Nelson; Jerry Schleicher; Jim Thompson; Harold Roy
Miller; Andy
Nelson; new WMA web site; Doris
Daley; RW
Hampton, Mike Beck, Dave Stamey and others in Cowboys & Indians;
Jo
Lynne Kirkwood; Jeri Dobrowski, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns in Ag
Pride;
and many
more...
Around
the Campfire with Ed and Terry; Brenn
Hill on What's in a Song; Western Folklife Center's Ranch Rhymes;
A Prairie
Home Companion; Marvin O'Dell's
DJ contact list; Joe Baker's
Backforty Roundup; Ken Overcast's The Cowboy Show
newsletter;
Poetry on
B. J. Rickard's The World of Horses
13; Clear Out West (C.O.W.)
Special "Stay-at-Home" benefits, updated; Rick Huff's Western Air; Joe Baker's Backforty Bunkhouse newsletter;
Radio Ranch; Dave Stamey on Calling All
Cowboys; Radio Ranch;
Ralph's Back Porch Live365 show; Jerry Brooks on Ranch Rhymes;
Belinda Gail audio
postcard with Ken Overcast; Yvonne Hollenbeck, Rodney Nelson, and Randy Rieman on Ranch
Rhymes;
Ralph's Back Porch;
Calling All Cowboys;
and more ...
Newest: J.D. Seibert's Cowboy Poetry CD;
Jonah by Andy Nelson and Nikki Mann;
Al Mehl's I'd Rather Be...;
Mike Moutoux's Spirits Still Remain CD;
Linda Kirkpatrick's latest Somewhere in the West chapbook; Jerry Schleicher's The Missouri Matador CD;
Ray Owens' Tracks That Won't Blow Out; Janice
Gilbertson's Sometimes, in the Lucias;
Kerry Grombacher's It Sings in the Hi-Line;
Golden Spike Festival compilation CD;
Ray
Doyle's The Emigrant Trail;
Mag
Mawhinney's Passin' it On CD;
and
many more ...
Newest:
Joan Stauffer's Behind Every Man, the Story of Nancy Cooper Russell;
Willard Wyman's High Country;
Best of Covered Wagon Women; The Ranching Way of Life
DVD;
Rod Miller's Massacre At Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten;
Echo Klaproth's Words Turn Silhouette and Scattered, Lasting
Remnants;
Horses That Buck;
Andy and the Albino Horse; Molly the Pony; Hank Snow's
Tales of the Yukon CD;
and more...
Newest:
The
Western Way, Western
Horseman, I.M.
Cowgirl,
American
Cowboy, Rope
Burns, Cowboy
Magazine, Range,
Country Western Gazette, and more...
Newest: Past
United
States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry; Classical
Baby (I'm Grown Up Now) Emmy nomination; Kay
Ryan named U.S. Poet Laureate; Poetry
Out Loud winners; Gary
Snyder wins Lilly Prize; Poetry
Everywhere; Poetry Foundation/HBO poetry show; Ruth Lilly
Poetry Fellowships;
and more ...