The 9th Crossroads Cowboy Poetry Gatherin’
The 9th annual Cowboy Poetry Gatherin’ at Crossroads ranch 21186 South 465th W Avenue, Depew, Oklahoma is scheduled for April 26-27th 2025. The Youth Division contest will be April 25th for youth in-person competition at 6 PM. Mail in and email youth submissions need to be delivered by April 15, 2025.
New Category added for the 2025 is the THEMED division and this year’s theme is Oklahoma Tornados. Poets can compose a poem about Oklahoma tornados. Last year’s contest ended with tornado warnings all over Oklahoma, so Miss Dove thought it would be a good topic for poems.
Divisions for 2025 competition are: Youth Division (entry form and rules are at the bottom of this page.).
Green Horn, for poets who have never competed before. They can read their poems if they haven’t memorized them yet.
Top Hand– Poets who aren’t very familiar with competing in poetry contests. They must have their poem memorized for the best score.
Cow Boss – This is the Cowboy Division (men’s) and their work must be memorized.
Dawn Anita Cowgirl Poet– This is the Cowgirl Poet division and the winner wins the coveted Dawn Anita Award. This award is to memorialize Dawn Anita Plumlee who was a Cowgirl poet and country western singer and MS Senior Oklahoma.
Shootout at the OK Corral– Is open to male and female competitors reciting their best original memorized work
Classics– A new division in 2024! Open to both the cowboys and cowgirls, this division allows a poet to recite works from another poet. They must share a bit about the original poet and how this poet has influenced the reciter’s cowboy poetry journey. The poem must be memorized.
The Showcase venue is to be announced later.
Youth division information PDF :
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