Dennis Russell runs a cow/calf outfit in southern Colorado. He won the amateur division of the International Western Music Association’s first Cowboy Poetry Jackpot in 2014. That same year, he created and produced the first Cimarron Cowboy Music and Poetry Gathering.
Terry Nash raises crossbred Herefords west of Grand Junction, Colorado. He produces the Western Slope Cowboy Gathering in Grand Junction and performs all across the southern Rockies. Terry won both the IWMA’s Male Poet of the year and the Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year in 2018.
Valerie Beard is a writer, teacher, and crew cook who raises cattle in southeast Colorado, twelve cattle guards from pavement. Reciting her first poem, “No Better Life,” she won her division in the 2015 IWMA Poetry Jackpot. Valerie’s poems tell of joys and hardships. She’s seen them both.
Floyd Beard was raised in northeastern New Mexico and has lived what he writes. His many awards include the 2015 Kansas State Cowboy Poetry Champion in serious and humorous categories and the 2016 and 2017 IWMA Male Cowboy Poet of the Year. Floyd’s verses illustrate his life.
Dale Page earned an English degree at Oklahoma State while shoeing horses and assisting in the vet lab. He won the 2015 IWMA Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year, Best Serious Poet at the 2010 Cowboy Poetry Rodeo, and Best Performer at the OSU Cowboy Poetry and Songs event in 2008.
Four Aces and a Queen
by Dennis Russell, Terry Nash, Valerie Beard, Floyd Beard, Dale Page
Four Aces and a Queen
by Dennis Russell, Terry Nash, Valerie Beard, Floyd Beard, Dale Page
Published Apr 23, 2021
229 Pages
Genre: POETRY / General
