COWBOY UP, NEVADA STYLE: The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be held Jan. 28-Feb. 4 at the Western Folklife Center, the Convention Center, and other venues in Elko, Nevada. It’s a “celebration of life in the rural West, featuring the contemporary and traditional arts that arise from lives lived caring for land and livestock, fixing fences and raising families. Poetry, music, stories, gear, film, photography, food – all contribute to the texture of an event that has become an annual ritual for thousands of people who value the people and cultures that live and work in the West.” Featured are Montana’s Waddie Mitchell, the Renato Borghetti Band (Brazilian gaúcho musicians), Colorado’s Laurie Wagner Buyer, Wyoming’s Chuck Larsen and Jesse Smith, Raphael Christy’s one-man show about Charlie M. Russell, Ian Tyson, and poets of the deep-sea fisherman tradition of the northwest U.S.

- posted by Michael Shay @ 9:22 AM