National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is an annual six-day event being held at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, USA. The event, which was previously known as Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering, is produced by the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, organized by a team of folklorists and local cowboy poets and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering was first held in 1985 as a gathering of Western cowboys and ranchers, during which they shared poems about their lives working with cattle. Today, the event also presents such activities and workshops as hat making, a cooking workshop, A Gathering of Masters: Leather Carving, Photography from the Field, Two-Step Basics, Poetic Knee-Steerings, Bones Workshop, Jump Up and Jitterbug, Old-Time Ranch Dances, and Rodeo Swing.

Western Folklife Center, Elko

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