Cowboy Poet Ron Wilson

Peabody Township Library & The Sunflower Theatre

Porcupine Tea Company and Mercantile will have vittles available for purchase from 5-7:30 pm on April 18 that are a perfect pairing for enjoying some cowboy poetry by Ron Wilson. Stop by and pick up some cowgirl chicken salad or cowboy casserole with some sides and dessert. We’ll be concocting some accompanying specialty beverages, too!

Ron Wilson is a cowboy poet from the historic Lazy T Ranch near

Manhattan, Kansas. Proclaimed a “Poet Lariat” (not laureate) by Governor of Kansas Bill Graves, Ron chairs the annual Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest, hosts the monthly online video show called “Cattle Trails Showcase,” appears in a weekly Facebook Live video segment called “Live at the Lazy T Ranch,” and produces a biweekly newspaper column called “Cowboy Up.” He is the only cowboy poet in history to present a cowboy poem at a Kansas Governor’s inauguration. He is a spokesman for the National Day of the Cowboy organization, an Ambassador for the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, a 2022 inductee into the Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame, and national president of Western Wordsmiths. He says his poetry is all-original, humorous, family- friendly, patriotic, and most of the time, it even rhymes.

Sponsored by the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.