Poet Connie Wanek reviews the latest collection of poems by Todd Boss, likening the felicity of his language, lyricism and narrative richness to likes of e.e. cummings, Kay Ryan, and Robert Frost.

Writer and performer Britt Aamodt profiles the artists behind HUGE Theater, the Twin Cities only mainstage for long-form improv and now beginning its second year of acclaimed performances by the area’s best players in the form.

Theater people know well the power of costume to create and communicate character. None more so, perhaps, than Jack Edwards, who dressed the Guthrie Theater’s actors for nearly 20 years.

One evening, I got into my friend Dave’s car. He pulled forward a few feet on University Avenue, where I lived at the time (near 22nd Street), and told me to “grab that ‘E’.” I was confused.

Part two of our “Family Business” series features an email exchange, moderated by artist Carrie Thompson, between a group of acclaimed photographers, all of whom are also mothers with children.

We’re launching a monthly series of personal essays, interviews and exchanges with and by local artists — “The Family Business.”

Late last summer I wrote about 2B, the studio in the Hennepin Center for the Arts where I take ballet class. At the time that I wrote this, 2B had looked and felt this way for ten years or more.

Need a place to write a grant, hold a meeting, work and network with a creative community in the Twin Cities? Then ArtsHub may be for you.

Michaël Borremans’ subject matter consists of the “simultaneously nostalgic, darkly comical, disturbing, and grotesque.” But what attracts me most to Borremans’s work is the stillness he conveys in his paintings.