Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 24, 2020, before the restrictions of the pandemic limited social gatherings. But even COVID-19 can't dampen the collective spirit of Robert ...

Editing a poetry anthology is the literary equivalent to tip-toeing through a minefield, and never more so than when the anthology in question has a national focus. Are the poets included really the ...

he Mobile Assembly of Sages and Savants (MASS) evolved from an impromptu effort by local artists to stage a reading by visiting Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and on July 3, 1985, his reading ...

Bagpipes where blaring, scotch was flowing and the haggis was paraded through the tables at Tam O’Shanter as the Atwater Village restaurant celebrated the 259th birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns ...

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A Saturday celebration of the life of former Colorado State University professor and former hostage Thomas Sutherland came with a heavy shot of his native Scotland. A crowd at the Grand Ballroom of ...

“We love the things we love for what they are,” Robert Frost declares at the end of “Hyla Brook.” But as Frost knew, that’s only half the truth. We also love the things we love because of how they ...

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There is both a rhyme and reason behind the torrent of words that form the modern Scottish fitba’ poetry oeuvre, as we never tire of declaiming in the salons of Saracen Street. It is this. There is ...

JULIE McNEILL is the Poet-in-Residence for St Mirren Football Club Charitable Trust, the only female poet — as far as can be established — attached to a professional football club in the UK, perhaps ...