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A Little Bit More About Me

Floyd Beard and wife, Valerie, ranch in the canyons near Kim, Colorado where
they run a cow/calf operation.  A good day involves getting up before the sun is
"pinking up the east", riding, working cattle, and settling down on the porch to
watch the sunset. Floyd who has a gift to put words together that build a vivid
picture in the reader/listeners' minds has been writing and rhyming for over 40
years and is the 2016, 2017, 2021, and 2023, International Music Association's
Male Poet of the Year. His most recent CD, "Horse Tales and Cow Trails" won
the IWMA's 2021 Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year.

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