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Cowboy poetry workshops prepare for Western Round-Up

Several local cowboy poets plan on appearing at the “Festival of Trees” on Nov. 30 at 4:30 p.m. and on Dec. 1 at 11:30 a.m. in the events tent at the CasaBlanca’s east parking lot.

Under the leadership of Russ Westwood, poets are welcome to attend the workshops.  The remaining meetings are to take place on Tuesdays, Dec. 11 and Jan 8.  They are to begin at 6:30 p.m. on the Mesquite Campus at 150 N. Yucca St. in Room 23. (Mesquite Arts Council Office)     

The Round-Up is to showcase nationally known master of ceremonies and musical entertainer Stan Corliss the local “Mesquite Toes Clogging Team and the Strings’n’ Things western band, as well as a great variety of cowboy poets reciting well-known and self-written poems.   

Call Westwood at 346-0703 for more information or email: rwestwood13@gmail.com

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