2025
Award Sponsored by: Tom & Carla Swearingen
Pensive 'n' Playful - Mark Munzert
Poetry is defined as works containing rhythm, rhyme and meter. Although the book's content may include short prose, tall tales, rhyming poetry and free verse, the poetry alone is judged.
2024
Award Sponsored by Tom & Carla Swearingen
"Into the West"
Poppa Mac & Doug Monson
2023
Windmills on the Prairie
2022
Deep Tracks
2020
Good Medicine - Read Two Poems and Call Me in the Morning
Doc Mehl
(tie)
Reflection
Tom Swearingen
2018
Tales of the Trails
Marleen Bussma
2017
Ladies, Horses and Cowboys
Sam DeLeeuw
2016
Is She Country?
Marleen Bussma
2015
One Hundred Poems
Waddie Mitchell
2014
Mustang Spring
Deanna Dickinson McCall
2013
Western Spirit
Mag Mawhinney
2012
Christmas on the Range
Yvonne Hollenbeck
2011
Colorado Moon
Jim Jones
2010
Riding With Jim
Andy Nelson & James F. Walker Nelson
2009
Trail Mix
Diane Tribitt
2008
Arizona Women
Buckshot Dot