34th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Amy Hale Auker is the author of Rightful Place, Winter of Beauty, and The Story is the Thing. Her new book, Ordinary Skin, was released in May 2017 by Texas Tech University Press. Amy cowboys for the Spider Ranch in Yavapai County, Arizona, and performs poetry and speaks to groups... Read More →

A fifth-generation California cattleman, John Dofflemyer and his wife Robbin, run a cow/calf operation in the Kaweah River watershed of the southern Sierra Nevada. For the past ten years, they have documented ranch life with photographic and poetic perspectives at www.drycrikj... Read More →

Patricia Frolander, Wyoming's fifth Poet Laureate, lives in the Black Hills on her husband’s fifth- generation ranch. Family, lifestyle and stunning vistas provide wonderful subjects for her poetry. In addition to contributing to numerous anthologies, she has authored two books... Read More →

Betty Lynne McCarthy returns to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering for the sixth time after a decade hiatus. Her true passion is the cattle operation she and her husband Sean have developed based on the cows they left Montana with over 20 years ago. Genomic testing rates their... Read More →