Image altered from: Frederic Remington, The Cowboy.  1902   You might call me smitten by the whole affair. By the cowboys, of course: their hats, their vests, their boots. Their wry smiles and fat handshakes. By the elderly couples lining up t…

Born January 24, 1856, Butcher landed in Custer County in 1880 via West Virginia and Illinois: a misfit from the very start. Both he and his father filed homestead claims, and almost immediately he regretted it.

The record label Fonograf Editions has pressed LPs of readings by Eileen Myles and Rae Armantrout, putting a new spin on poetry’s oral tradition.

Few remembrances of the renowned Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko mention his impact in the world of cowboy poetry.

A brush with the Sage of Baltimore.For better or worse, I am a child of the Plains, and so my first experience with H. L. Mencken was less an introduction than a confrontation. I first learned of the Sage of Baltimore during his cameo appearance in a…