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Poetry

Blue_playwright

(1,573 posts) Wed Jan 6, 2021, 12:11 PM Jan 2021

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Cowboy poets

Hello all! I’m a writer and horrible at poetry (although I do enjoy reading it) but I’m working on a play about a cowboy poet. Most of the poems will be from a singer/songwriter and are complete. But I’m trying to absorb as much as I can on my end of this genre.

Does anyone have a poet or a compilation they favor that you could recommend?

Thanks!

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Cowboy poets (Original Post) Blue_playwright Jan 2021 OP

Baxter Black, Bob Boze Bell. marble falls Jan 2021 #1

Thanks... Blue_playwright Jan 2021 #2

Baxter Black read a lot of his pieces on NPR in the morning during the eighties and nineties. marble falls Jan 2021 #3

Nobody is horrible at poetry. Harker Jan 2021 #4

marble falls

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1. Baxter Black, Bob Boze Bell.

Reply to Blue_playwright (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 04:40 PM

Jan 2021

Blue_playwright

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2. Thanks...

Reply to marble falls (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 04:42 PM

Jan 2021

Read some Bell but not Black yet.

marble falls

(62,047 posts)

3. Baxter Black read a lot of his pieces on NPR in the morning during the eighties and nineties.

Reply to Blue_playwright (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 04:46 PM

Jan 2021

Harker

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4. Nobody is horrible at poetry.

Reply to Blue_playwright (Original post)

Fri Jan 8, 2021, 02:04 PM

Jan 2021

goat ropers

that's what we called them

in high school

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