Non-Profits
The Lone Star Cowboy Poetry Gathering produces cowboy poetry and music events in multiple locations across Texas. With our roots and heart in the Big Bend and our traditional venue at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, we expanded in 2026 to Bastrop. Our 2027 Gathering in Alpine will be Feb. 18-20; our 2027 event in Bastrop is scheduled for Sept. 3-4.
The Gathering is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to "remember, recite, sing, record, publish, illustrate, film, portray, broadcast, market, and honor narratives of the cowboy way told in poetry, song, stories, and art by those who have lived that life to those who enjoy and learn from it every day."