Poet Lariat visits SCCC library
April 21, 2008

Mayra Valdez
Crusader Staff

Latte in the Library, with cowboy poet lariat Ronald Wilson, took place in the Seward County Community College library during the noon hour Wednesday.
Wilson performed in full costume, and was accompanied with audience participation. There were more than 30 people who attended the event.
Wilson’s poetry is family oriented, patriotic and relates with agriculture. He entertained his audience with his poems. Wilson dedicated some of his poems to the audience.
He dedicated a poem to the veterans and called it “The Ragged Old Flag,” along with a poem that he made for the audience.
While asking his audience trivia questions that had to do with cowboy lifestyle, he also encouraged them to participate in various volunteer activities.
“This poetry contains local color describing the land. The poetry had a lot of neat terms that a lot of our students today wouldn’t understand since they are more involved in city life,” said Neva Dorman, assistant director of the Academic Achievement Center.
Jon Noland, SCCC library director, contacted Wilson through e-mail.
“Everything worked how I wanted it to work. I wish more students would have shown up, but of course it is the busiest time of the year for them,” Noland said.
Wilson was proclaimed by Governor of Kansas Bill Graves as a poet lariat.
He also placed first at the Kansas Cowboy Symposium in Dodge City, and was the Horizon Award Winner from the Heartland Chapter of the Academy of Western Artists.