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SUMMARY:Pensive 'N' Playful Cowboy Poetry
UID:35763
DTSTAMP:20260409T131300Z
DTSTART:20260714T220000Z
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LOCATION:William K. Sanford Town Library, 629 Albany Shaker Road, Loudonvi
 lle, NY 12211, United States
ROOM: Stedman Room
DESCRIPTION:Mark presents cowboy poetry, a traditional, narrative form of 
 verse originating from American cowboy life, telling stories of the Wester
 n lifestyle and cowboy culture. Topics include but are hardly limited to: 
 land; cattle; horses; humor; hardship; and values—using rhyme and metere
 d patterns (like ballads) often shared around campfires or gatherings, kee
 ping the authentic cowboy spirit alive through storytelling.Mark is the In
 ternational Western Music Association 2024 COWBOY POET OF THE YEAR and pri
 or five time nominee for the same; the 2025 IWMA Cowboy Poetry Book of the
  Year Author; a 2025 top three 2025 nominee for the Academy of Western Art
 ists Cowboy Poet of the Year; the 2018 NATIONAL COWBOY POETRY RODEO Champi
 on for Serious Poetry and the 2017 NCPR Rising Star Champion for Humorous 
 Poetry and 2017 inductee to the Adirondack Cowboy Hall of Fame. Of Arizona
  ranching roots, he has been branded 'the Cowboy Poet of the Northeas
 t' as his present home is in upstate New York's Adirondack Mount
 ains region. The ranch-man, descendant of horse-folk and cow-losopher reve
 als "that in my heart, I knew I was meant to ‘cowboy’. While life
  situations didn’t always allow fate, along the bumpy trail, I did a fai
 r piece of day workin’. I made a hand biddin’ my skills with horses, c
 ows, cowfolks, and too many fences.” Mark truly enjoys passing on the et
 hos of cowboy culture through his presentations. Supported by The Friends
  of the Colonie Library 
URL:https://events.colonielibrary.org/event/adult-program-35763
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