Valentine’s Day has a way of sneaking up on us. If you are stumped for ideas we have a few to share, starting with a vintage ...

Beats, Art & Fashion blended dance, singing, music, fashion, visual art and poetry into a celebration of Black History Month ...

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

As part of Xpress' annual Wellness Issues, we asked six local poets to share their thoughts on the benefits of slowing down and being present in the moment.

Anpotowin Jensen will launch "Hero Dreams Shine" this spring. The book is a collection of 45 poems focusing on themes of Indigneous rescilience and self-empowerment with science woven throughout.

Twenty students from Spokane-area schools will be showcasing their art in the annual Black Voices Symposium event on Monday, ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Jennifer Fox has opened River Floral. Gift, which offers custom flower arrangements and other items, in the former Ploetz ...