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A Backpack Journalist

Hands on Scholastic Journalism for youth!

A Backpack Journalist

Hands on Scholastic Journalism for youth!

A Backpack Journalist

Cowboy Poetry comes to Backpack Journalist!

A Backpack Journalist is pleased to announce the expansion of our teaching team to include two of our nation’s finest Cowboy Poets – Doc Stovall and Jerry Warren – both from Georgia.

A few weeks ago, Linda Dennis and Mike McLean (our photojournalist) spent time with them on a working ranch in Barnesville, Georgia and saw a prize winning bull, lots of horses, and plenty of cows.

As they worked through the day, they remarked how it was amazing to hear each of them break into a rhyme, and then to watch Jerry Warren exhibit his other talent as a horse whisperer. Doc Stovall kept his guitar nearby as well.

Why Cowboy poetry? Cowboy Poetry grew out of a tradition of extemporaneous composition carried on by cowboys at night following work on the ranch or a cattle drive. Typically, the cowboys would gather around the campfire and entertain one another with their imaginative descriptions of their work day or the landscape or perhaps of a “legendary” character. A common thread, the poetic form (rhyming) was typically used to help each remember and to pass it on.

Jerry Warren and Doc Stovall take Cowboy Poetry to a new level – with many of life’s lessons found throughout the rhymes. A Backpack Journalist will be using this technique to help military youth find yet another avenue to creatively express themselves through – writing, research, remembering and reciting.

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