The executive director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, which hosts the prestigious National Cowboy Poetry Gathering every January. Best Western I Saw:True Grit (the new one). Best Book I Read This Year:Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America by Eliot Pattison. Book I Loved:Paul Zarzyski’s 51: 30 Poems, 20 Lyrics, 1 Self-Interview. Best Concert:Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in 2011. Best Poem:Paul Zarzyski’s “Cordw

March 2012