Marianne Moore

The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....

"100 New Yorkers: A Guide to Illustrious Lives & Locations" (The Little Bookroom, $19.95) This beauty of a book combines biography and travel, all elegantly designed with tasteful black-and-white photos. Author Julia Holmes has chosen 100 "illustrious"...

Standing in the shelter of a cool stone arch in Prospect Park, you look out on a landscape drenched with light, patchworked in shades of green. If you've come early on a weekday morning, your companions on the road will be runners and power walkers and...

In the heart of Brooklyn, Prospect Park is a marvel -- more than 500 acres of prime real estate that provides a backyard for a borough short on green space, long on people. More than a century ago, its designers -- Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux...

There's not much of a barrier between Philadelphians and their city's history and culture. They walk briskly past the Liberty Bell on their way to a food-cart lunch, skateboard recklessly down the 100 steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum and, if you ask...