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, ...

RIVERTON—Cowboy hats cast shadows under the fluorescent lights of an exhibition hall at the county fairgrounds. The crowd — an array of solid, paisley and plaid pearl-snap shirts — chatted till an ...

“We invite current and aspiring cowboy poets to enter our regional contests where they can perform their original cowboy poems in person,” said poetry contest chair Ron Wilson of the Lazy T Ranch near ...

Terry Nash’s most requested poem is “A Cowman’s Lot.” “I can never do a gathering without reciting that poem,” Nash said. It’s about a heifer giving birth to her first calf and the cowboy watching ...

Bill Lowman says cowboys began making up poems not for art, but for that most mundane reason -- to fill time. "It's a way of self-entertainment," says Lowman, who ranches near Sentinel Butte, N.D.

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 ...