ABOUT THE AUTHOR,
MIKE LOGAN ...
(In the words of Wally McRae- From the forward of "Bronc To Breakfast")
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"I have a suspicion there are about twelve Wilson
trailer loads of "Cowboy" or "western" poets clattering
around the countryside. Each poet has a boot box half
full of poems. If you unloaded them all and worked the
herd, you'd be lucky if you ended up with enough hands
for a branding crew.
 Mike Logan would be in the keeper cut.
Mike is a bit embarrassed when he is referred to as a cowboy
poet because he doesn't follow the cow around for a
living. The western landscape is overflowing with
folks who, although they may (or may not) be top hands,
wouldn't know an iamb from an anapest if they had one on
the end of a thirty-foot lariat.
Mike knows. His meter is as tight as the top wire
on a new bull pasture fence. His rhyme is not only right
on target, but a bullseye every time. In addition
to all this, he is a master story teller. Enough said. Enjoy his writing.
Photo of
Mike Logan by Sean Logan Wally McRae
(That is one mighty fine tribute coming from the
author of probably the most famous contemporary poem
around..... REINCARNATION.) |
During the awards ceremony
conducted by the Academy Of Western Artists
in Dallas, Texas (Richardson), Mike Logan was
presented with the 2006 award for Cowboy Poet of the
year (Male). He has had an illustrious cowboy
poetry career. His book and video, "MONTANA IS...."
represented Montana at the two hundredth birthday
celebration held at the Library of Congress in
Washington, D.C. He has presented his poetry and
photography at various programs in places as diverse as
Alaska, Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory and
Provideniya on the Chukotka Penninsula in Russia.
He was a teacher in the Helena, Montana school
system for twenty-five years; and he says he loved every
minute of it. He taught high school Spanish and English
in grades 8 through 12. He has a Bachelors degree from the
University of Tulsa; and a Masters degree from the
University of Missouri.
While Mike was teaching, he began getting requests
during the school year to appear at poetry gatherings
from places as widely separated as Alaska, Virginia,
Tennessee, Oklahoma and California. He has pursued his
interest in poetry and photography full time since his
retirement in 1991. He has appeared for over a decade at
the National Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada both as a
featured poet and as an emcee; and he was a guest on
John Denver's 1991 "Montana Christmas Skies"
television special. He
appeared in the cowboy poetry gathering that was ever
held in Canada, It was held in Pincher Creek, Alberta
Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
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