Join your favorite “Poet Lariat” the best cowboy poetry comes from real life, and Ron Wilson has been there. Howdy folks, and welcome to our place on the internet. It tells of how I got the title “Poet Lariat”. To me, this technology is awfully new-fangled, And I’ll admit that cowboy grammar sometimes just gets mangled. But we love our cowboy poems – that part is surely true, And we’d be glad to come and say a set of poems for you. When it comes to fun, a cowboy never fails, So welcome to our podcast, and we wish you “Happy Trails!

In 2003, then Kansas Governor Bill Graves officially proclaimed Ron Wilson to be a Poet Lariat (not laureate) in Kansas. That same year, he won first place at the Kansas Cowboy Symposium in Dodge City. Ron won the Horizon Award from the Academy of Western Artists, Heartland Chapter. He’s performed at national and international meetings, published two books and a CD of cowboy poetry, appears regularly in newspapers and radio, and has been featured on RFD-TV.