The image of heroic American cowboys riding through wide-open country dominates movies to this day. In Cowboy Poets, we learn about a lesser-known passion of cowboys and cowgirls. Poets, songwriters, and musicians come together at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada. The film accompanies them as they record their unique way of life in poems and songs and consider their place is in today's world. It shows their rough and ready everyday life as well as their creative work and combines this with breath-taking nature shots to create a piece of nostalgic "Americana.”