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.

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium — the internet. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1 ...

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 ...