Molly Ovenden does poetry busking at Yellow Bike Café so her life has no shortage of ‘Random Acts of Poetry.’ However, throughout the month of October she’s helping others to celebrate just that.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Among my wife’s family treasures is a vintage copy of “Evangeline,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem about star-crossed lovers separated during the persecution of the Acadians, ancestors of ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. During the 1970s and 1980s Joanie Puma was a staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting for the Night Life and ...