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Missouri Folk Arts in the News

KBIA 91.3: Missouri Cowboy Poetry

Published on April 24, 2013

Updated on Oct. 24, 2025

In this 2013 story from KBIA, reporter Harum Helmy previews on the Missouri Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival in Mtn. View. Though the founding festival producer died, and the festival itself is no longer staged, this story is still a good listen, as is the follow-up Postcard From a Cowboy Poetry Festival.

Photographed Lisa Higgins, Director of the Missouri Folk Arts Program poses in her office. Higgins has short brown hair and wears a black shirt with a plaid shirt tied around her neck. In front of her are compute monitors and in front of those are a bunch of different tiny cowboy boots as decoration. — Lisa Higgins, director of the Missouri Folk Arts Program, poses in her office on April 22, 2013. Tiny cowboy boots decorate Higgins’ workplace. The folk arts program heled the annual Missouri Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival with Missouri Arts Council grants. Credit Harum Helmy / KBIA News

Photographed from behind are 3 cowboys sitting beside one another. — Cowboy poets Ken Lorton (farthest left), Richard Dunlap, D.J. Fry and Jake White watch on as other poets perform at the cowboy poetry festival on Saturday, April 27. Credit Harum Helmy / KBIA News