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Friday, February 1 • 9:30am - 10:45am
Discussion: From Homer to Kiskaddon - Poetry Over the Years

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People have been making poetry for as long as we’ve been communicating with each other, and cowboy poetry is just one part of this vast tradition. Learn about how poetry has developed over the years and how historical poetic traditions influence contemporary poetry with a panel of speakers including cowboy poets Joshua Dugat and John Dofflemyer as well as Michael Ursell of the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV and Vogue Robinson, Clark County Poet Laureate.
Presented in collaboration with the Black Mountain Institute.
Host: Michael Ursell
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John Dofflemyer

A fifth-generation California cattleman, John Dofflemyer and his wife Robbin, run a cow/calf operation in the Kaweah River watershed of the southern Sierra Nevada. For the past ten years, they have documented ranch life with photographic and poetic perspectives at www.drycrikjour... Read More →
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Joshua Dugat

Josh Dugat is a poet who was born and raised in Austin, Texas, but “grew up” in Lavaca County, where the Kessler Ranch has been in the family for six generations. He spent his twenties teaching high school science in New Orleans, fighting fire for the Forest Service in Montana... Read More →


Friday February 1, 2019 9:30am - 10:45am PST
Elko Conference Center - Lamoille Room 724 Moren Way, Elko, NV 89801, USA
  Daytime Program, Pass Required

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