Cowboy poetry workshop set via internet

People may not be able to gather to share cowboy poetry at the moment with social distancing and stay-at-home directives in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a group is offering a taste that could help people pass the time during social isolation.

The Medicine Hat Cowboy Poetry Foundation is offering online cowboy poetry workshops for adults and youth starting in two weeks.

“The purpose is to help students learn how to write and perform cowboy poetry,” workshop co-facilitator Jeannette Zollner said.

The requirements needed for this course, she said, are the desire to create and design po...