This week there’s a children’s picture book, there a 10-step manual for improving mental wellbeing, there’s a new anthology ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

As Valentine's Day approaches, t here are many affordable ways to celebrate this day. Celebrated on February 14, you can ...

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

The words of fisher poet Steve Schoonmaker, when put to the sounds of Jim Maloney’s music, create a sense of wonder about the intelligence and inclusiveness of nature.

Kids haven't experienced true holiday magic until the first time they hear A Visit from St. Nicholas. That long-form poem ...

"It would be easy to write a motivational speech asking everyone to come and spend money locally but i think a poem ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ran its ...

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.

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...