Swearingen: Yeah, I’d be happy to do that. Miller: Could we start with a poem from your book ‘ Reflection’? It’s called ‘One to Ride the River With.’ Tom Swearingen: Thanks for having me appreciate being here. Swearingen is done with rodeo appearances for the summer, but you can still catch him through November at various gatherings around the state, and he joins us now. He even got Willamette Week’s nod in its ‘best of’ edition last month. The group also named him best male poet in 20. About six years later, he published a collection that was named the 2020 Cowboy Poetry Book of the Year by the International Western Music Association. But the people around him who heard him knew better, and Swearingen kept writing. Tom Swearingen says that when he wrote his first poem to honor a friend who had died, he didn’t really consider himself to be a poet. This transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer.ĭave Miller: From the Gert Boyle Studio at OPB, this is Think Out Loud. He joins us to talk about his work and read some of his poetry. He’s done with rodeo appearances for this summer, but you can still catch him this month and through November at various gatherings around the state. Swearingen, like other cowboy poets, is particularly busy in the summer months with performances at rodeos and other events. He also got Willamette Week’s nod in its “Best of” edition this year. Within 10 years, Swearingen had published a collection of poetry which was named the 2020 Cowboy Poetry Book of the year by the International Western Music Association. He did, and he says because he long enjoyed Western music, art and literature, including the cowboy poetry of Baxter Black, that was the style that fit. But the small group of friends and family he read it to told him to keep writing. When Tom Swearingen wrote his first poem to remember a friend who had died, he didn’t consider himself a poet.
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