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William Wilson secured funding for the event from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1985. [2] Organized by a team of folklorists and local cowboy poets including Hal Cannon and Waddie Mitchell, the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering started in 1985 as a place where Western ranchers and cowboys could gather to share poems about their lives working cattle.
He was one of thousands who gathered in February for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, a weeklong festival of Western folk music and literature staged in the upper reaches of Nevada’s Great ...
The Western Folklife Center is a nonprofit cultural center in Elko, Nevada that hosts exhibits, theater, music, and poetry events that celebrate the history and landscape of the American West. Every year the center hosts the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. [1] [2] [3]
In addition to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering held every year in Elko, Nevada, as well as the second largest cowboy poetry gathering, the Lone Star Cowboy Poetry Gathering, held annually in Alpine, TX, many cities in the United States and Canada have annual "roundups" dedicated to cowboy poetry. Cowboy Poetry week is celebrated each April ...
Elko has been the home of the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering since 1985. [19] This festival is held each January and is a week-long celebration of life in the rural West, featuring poetry, music, stories, gear, film, photography, and food. A notable regular attendee was Canadian country musician Ian Tyson. [20]
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Mitchell has written four books, Waddie's Whole Load, A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas, Lone Driftin' Rider and a 2015 compilation One Hundred Poems. He was chosen to write a poem describing the West for the 2002 Winter Olympics' Olympic Arts Festival. [2] He is a co-founder of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. [3]
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering; P. Poetry Bus Tour; R. Red Sky Poetry Theatre; S. Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival This page was last edited on 24 July 2022, at ...