On a stage bracketed by saddles, a man in a cowboy hat recited verses about a woman and a horse, as a dog loped through the audience. That man was cowboy poet Terry Nash who helped entertain the crowd ...

Not at all, says poet Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and a BBC commentator. "I think it's terrific." Gioia, author of the controversial book Can Poetry Matter?, contends ...

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 ...

Every October, when it is time for the annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering, I can’t help but think of those Saturday mornings when, as a child, I would grab my stick horse and toy six shooters and ...

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time Deep in the heart of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, just a few doors down from H Mart and a K-pop music ...