The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) and Celtic Connections have announced a multi‑year partnership featuring a ...

But as the knife descends, “she screams, evidently perceiving how final is finality.” Spark’s kill count is often taken as ...

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

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LONDON -- Scotland's most wee citizens are sleeping in cardboard boxes. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon gave expectant mothers a starter kit full of essential items for newborns, kicking off ...

A poem honoring Samuel Huntington, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, will debut July 5 at the Huntington Homestead Museum, according to a community announcement. “American Mettle,” written ...

What exactly constitutes a poem? To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea a form of poetry. Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the ...