By S. Omar Barker From the Cowboy Poetry website A beef roast in the oven and the hands all waitin’ ’round, So they got to kinder talkin’ ’bout the different things they’d found That each of them was thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day, And some, they told it solemn-like,…
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Cowboy poet, Joel Nelson, recites the classic poem “Lasca,” at the 2013 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The first known publishing of “Lasca,” written by Frank Desprez, was in the London Society newspaper (November 1882), and later picked up by the Montana Livestock Journal (June 16, 1888). If you have problems…
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Cowboy Forrest Mackey from Sedan, New Mexico has won a much coveted performance spot at the famous National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. His poem was selected by the sponsoring Western Folklife Center for this year’s theme “Expressing the Rural West: Poetry of the Next Generation”. The Gathering starts…
