By Jim Parsons Once again, it is time to “Cowboy Up” and plan on attending this year’s Mesquite Western Roundup. The Mesquite Arts Council and the local Mesquite Western Poets will provide a look at a Western way of life that will amuse and entertain those who attend. The poets involved will bring their life experiences to the stage for all to hear in a fun way. The Mesquite Western Poets began as a project sponsored by the Virgin Valley Artists Association in 2006. This group includes poets from Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming,
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North Dakota, Colorado, and California. Some have won national awards, and many have performed at cowboy gatherings from the east coast to the west coast. This year’s program will include Farrel Bott, who has performed at gatherings in Utah; Marleen Bussma, who continues to win award after award for her poetry; Mark Kerr, who will temporarily set his cowboy guitar aside to perform verse; Lee Kimberlin, a rancher from Colorado who is one of the founding members of the group; Jim Parsons, who has performed his own work