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News   5/16

   
Newest
Cowboy musicians in Turkmenistan; Tough by Nature at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame; Steve Atkinson's art on the 26th Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering poster; 12th annual Cowboy Poetry Week; Duke Beardsley's art on 25th annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering poster; Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Agricultural Heritage InitiativeCowboyPoetry.com and more in Ranch & Reata; The BAR-D Roundup in American Cowboy; Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival; John Dofflemyer receives Wrangler Award; Cowboys Real and Imagined at New Mexico History Museum;  and more
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News Bits and Links 5/17

News stories, features, web links, items of interest from the web, social media, and you. Newest below.


Features  5/17

              
Newest:
Rick Huff's Best of the West reviews (newest updated 5/17); Picture the West; Cowboy Poetry Week Art Spur; Jeri Dobrowski's April Cowboy Jam Session; Shawn Cameron; Rick Huff's Western Air; and more ...

Western and Cowboy Poems and Songs: New, Old, and Classic  5/16

 
Newest:  Badger Clark, Robert Dennis, Jared Rogerson, Yvonne Hollenbeck

Previously: S. Omar Barker, Georgie Sicking, Susie Knight, Bruce Kiskaddon, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Chimp Robertson, "Black Ace," Bill Hickman, Art Spur: Ken Cook, LaVerna B. Johnson, Don Hilmer, S.D. Matley, Maureen Bussma, Jean Mathisen, Lynn Kopelke, Joyce Johnson, MaryK Croft, Stuart Hooker, R.V. Schmidt, Del Gustafson, David Carlton, Merv Webster ; Haugen  Bruce Kiskaddon, Peggy Godfrey, Jack Goodman, Mark Wilsdorf, Jess Howard, Sharlot Hall, Ken Cook, and many more ...

Index of all classic and contemporary poems

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Art Spur  

Art inspires poetry and song...coming: a special National Day of the Cowboy Art Spur

  A special Cowboy Poetry Week Art Spur featuring noted painter, poet, and fourth-generation Arizona rancher Shawn Cameron's "Making Adjustments." Submissions were welcome from all through April 18, 2013. They are now closed.  Find selected poems here by Ken Cook, LaVerna B. Johnson, Don Hilmer, S.D. Matley, Maureen Bussma, Jean Mathisen Haugen, Lynn Kopelke, Joyce Johnson, MaryK Croft, Stuart Hooker, R.V. Schmidt, Del Gustafson, David Carlton, and  Merv Webster.

The previous Art Spur was "At the End of His Rope," featuring the work of Oklahoma artist Tyler Crow. Submissions are now closed Find selected poems here by Jay Snider, Ken Cook, Stuart Hooker, Susan Matley, Marleen Bussma, Del Gustafson, and Jean Mathisen Haugen.

Find links to all previous Art Spur subjects here.


Picture the West (Send your photos)  5/13

Your photos, old and new, of the ranching, cowboy, rural, and working life of the West.

Find submission information here.

  The youngest generation on Robert Dennis's South Dakota ranch

Previous postings: Jean Mathisen Haugen's photos of Lander, Wyoming's Hornecker Ranch in the 1940s; Yvonne Hollenbeck's photos of calving in a winter storm in South Dakota; Amy Hale Auker's photos of spring works on the Spider Ranch; Lori Ann Scott-Johnson's Texas longhorn images; Mike Beck and The Joyful Horse Project for veterans; New Mexico rancher Deanna McCall's cowdog pups; South Dakota cowboy and writer Deanna Nelson's ranch photos, Montana ranch hand, poet, and picker DW Groethe's ranch photos; Dorothea Lange's migrants and cowboys; California rancher John Dofflemyer's "February Snow"; Montanan John Michael Reedy's images from This Place;  and many more....

Index of all Picture the West postings


Event Announcements calendar updated  5/3
Your announcements are welcome. Find submission info here.

Below are links to event details, supplied by organizers. See the
complete Events calendar with hundreds of events here

                     
Newest: White Mountain Cowboy Celebration of Independence (Arizona-July); Dewey-Humboldt Cowboy Gathering and Western Heritage Festival (Arizona-June); Big Hat Promotions House Concerts (California-May, June); International Cowboy Poetry Rodeo—Bush Poetry vs Cowboy Poetry (postponed) (October 2013-Morisset NSW);
 Mavericks Coffee House (updated 4/15) (California-through May); 17th annual Trailing of the Sheep (Idaho-October) ...

..Murphy Outpost Days (Idaho-June); 3rd Annual Genoa Cowboy Festival (Nevada-May); 17th Annual Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering (Kansas-June);  Lost 'n Lava Cowboy Gathering (Idaho-September); 17th Annual National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo (Utah-August); 28th Annual Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering (Montana-August) ...

The above links are announcements received from event organizers; find the complete Events calendar with hundreds of events here.


Gathering Reports
     5/17

  Newest: 9th Annual Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering by Tommy Tucker with photos by Molly Morrow 27th Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering by Nika Nordbrock; 5th Annual Songs of the Cowboys by Rex Rideout and Gwen Petersen; 14th Annual Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival and Western Art and Gear Show by Susan Parker with photos by Leslie Hause; 13th Annual Saddle Up! Celebration by Donnette Engebrecht with photos by John W. Reed and Christina Swanson; 21st Annual Cochise Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering by Steve Conroy with photos by Pauline Fredericks; 20th Annual Bootheel Cowboy Poetry Fiesta by Steve Conroy; 24th Annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering by Doris Daley with photos by Bill Patterson; and many more...

Find links to additional recent gathering and event reports here.

 


The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Seven News and radio play  

The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Seven, includes the voices of Amy Hale Auker, Stephen Vincent Benét, Jerry Brooks, Ken Cook, Doris Daley, John Dofflemyer, Elizabeth Ebert, DW Groethe, Andy Hedges, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Jess Howard, Carole Jarvis, Deanna McCall, Gary McMahan, Wallace McRae, Rod Miller, Andy Nelson, Joel Nelson, Rodney Nelson, Henry Real Bird, Pat Richardson, Randy Rieman, Jay Snider, Diane Tribitt, Keith Ward, Andy Wilkinson, with a Public Service Announcement, by Linda Kirkpatrick.

  Read about the forthcoming special Christmas collection, The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Eight (to be released in fall, 2013) here.

Find more about The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Seven and previous volumes here.

The BAR-D Roundup News and radio play:
 

         
Newest:
Totsie Slover's Real West from the Old West; Graham Lees' The Western Hour; Jarle Kvale's Back at the Ranch; PJ and Dallas McCord's Cowboy Culture Corner; Charley Engel's Calling All Cowboys; Waynetta Ausmus' Waynetta's Roundup and Storytime Andy and Jim Nelson's Clear Out West (C.O.W.); Tommy Tucker's Western Heritage Show; The BAR-D Roundup in American CowboyHugh McLennan's Spirit of the West; Volume Two sold out; BAR-D Roundup comprehensive index; and more ...


Looking For: Poets and Poetry, Musicians, Artists, and...  5/3

        
Newest: NASA seeks haiku poems for Mars mission
(Deadline: July 1, 2013); Third Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest (June 14, 2013);
International Cowboy Poetry Rodeo—Bush Poetry vs Cowboy Poetry (updated 4/15) (POSTPONED, Australia); International Cowboy Poetry Rodeo written competition  (deadline September 18, 2013)  "Outside Rhymes" contest (deadline September 1, 2013); Cowboys & Indians poetry submissions; BCCHS Mike Puhallo Memorial Scholarship (deadline December 31, annually) ...

... 28th Annual Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering (August, 2013); Make a Deep West video; USFRA: Talk Story TV; Artist seeks poetry for book; Frontier Project seeks writers, photographers, and artists for book projects; Back at the Ranch seeks cowboy poetry; Radio DJ list for cowboy poets...

...Western Music Association Western Wordsmiths Chapter; Live! with Jim Thompson; Range Radio; Cowboy poetry for public television outlets; and Families of Gil Traveller and Frank Burns


Poets, Musicians, & Others in the News in Print, on the Web, & Beyond  5/14
Your news is welcome. Find submission information here.


Newest: Rod Miller and more in Range
; Lori Faith Merritt in Horses in Art;  Doris Daley and others in Horses All magazine;
Rodney Nelson's latest Up Sims Creek column (updated 5/3); Baxter Black, Red Steagall, Sam DeLeeuw, and Jessica Hedges; Susie Knight and Dale Page;  Cowboy Culture South Dakota Style (Ken Cook, Robert Dennis, and Paul Larson); Deanna Dickinson MCall; Dave Stamey on California Report; Jessica Hedges and others in Western Horseman; Linda Kirkpatrick's latest Somewhere in the West column);  and more...


New Cowboy and Western Poetry & Music Releases    5/8
Your new release news is welcome. Find submission info here.
Also see Rick Huff's Best of the West reviews here and Jeri Dobrowski's Cowboy Jam Session here.