Who Is Dale Hayes ?
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Happily retired now, until recently, "Doc" Hayes was a professor at a public university in Manitoba, Canada. He also ran a small grazing operation for cattle of relatives and neighbors back in the bush near Nesbitt, Manitoba. With more time to focus on his poetry and writing, "Doc" continues to travel to different gatherings and poetry festivals around North America.Way back when, he tried rodeoing for a while but a blindbucker convinced him he was a school teacher and since those many years ago, his non-job focus has been on studying and recording tales of the cowboy way. He came by his love of western storytelling and cowboy poetry as a result of sitting in on bunk house bull sessions in Northern Arizona back in the late '40s. For over forty years he has collected cowboy stories and remembrances of Canadian and American cowboys that often serve as a basis for his poetry. He has had several books of poetry, academic and western, published and his recent cd-rom Conversations With an Old Horse is made up of his own original poetry and several selected stories of the "Old West," backed up by several good traditional western musicians.
"Doc" Hayes has spoken at
over 400 educational and organizational training and motivational meetings
since the mid '70s. He has been featured at many of the major gatherings in
both Canada and the United States. "Doc" is the producer and host
of the Brandon Cowboy Poetry Gathering and the Canadian Cowboy Christmas: and
he has been featured on both regional and national television shows on Cowboy
Poetry. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and the Academy of
Western Artists. |
