They usually memorize. Very seldom do they read a piece. It’s extremely entertaining. I would say that 75 percent of the poetry is humorous. Humor always makes a good story.

2018 Kansas Cowboy Poetry winners compete year after year with the hopes to keep the art form of cowboy poetry for generations to come.

Rooted in the traditions of ranch life, horsemanship, and the challenges faced by those who call the frontier their home, cowboy poetry stands as a testament to the resilience, humor, and true ...

A conventional form emerging at meals, roundups, and in the bunkhouse since the Civil War, the tone of cowboy poetry is upbeat, sentimental, humorous, or lightly ironic, and often bawdy.

In cowboy poetry, the poet may ride a bronc or chase a lover, grin with kids or rope and brand the devil, but the poems are always personal.

Poet Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, shares some advice — and several poems as examples — of how to incorporate humor into verse.

Mosey up to the microphone: The 2017 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest is about to take place with two regional contests, then a flourishing finale at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan.

His stories preceded the humorous and sometimes thought-provoking poetry, that created laughter, and especially from those who may have faced similar moments out on the range. Need a break?

The 2025 finals of the annual Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest will be at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, KS.

Baxter Black was a familiar face on U.S. Farm Report. After joining the show as a regular commentator in 2009, his humor and poetry quickly drew interest from the audience as he became a fan ...