Cowboy poet Dick Warwick will open artist series 5th year

The fifth season of Colfax’s Meet the Artist series will feature Dick Warwick of Oakesdale, known in venues both in the United States and Australia for his cowboy poetry and his marriage of cowboy poetry and Australian Bush poetry, next Thursday, Jan. 6, at Colfax library on Main Street at 7 p.m.

Warwick grew up on the family farm near Oakesdale and after earning a degree in English from Stanford University, doing a little graduate work and trying out a few jobs, decided the place for him was farming.

He and a friend decided in 1981 to apply for a job with a harvest contractor in western Austr...