Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own. As we note ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The mother of a 10-year-old boy with ...

In common with an number of other online cautions aimed at teens, "I am Meth" took the form of an ode penned by (or about) an adolescent who paid the ultimate price -- death -- for falling victim to ...

Read Part 2: With a range of accents, a unity poem years in the making is brought to life through culturally diverse voices “We are the unbreakable woven thread.” “They want red white and blue, but ...

A North Country teen has turned a poem about the differences in all of us into a book that’s about to hit store shelves. Benjamin Giroux wrote the poem, “I Am Odd, I Am New,” about living with autism ...

Benjamin Giroux isn't usually one to express much emotion. "When we ask him how his day went when he gets home from school, we don't get much more than a one-word answer," Sonny Giroux, Benjamin's ...

NEW YORK – A 10-year-old boy, who has Asperger’s syndrome, recently wrote a touching poem that gives an inside look into his life. To celebrate National Poetry Month, Benjamin Giroux was asked to ...

I am in here; would you look and see? I am fighting against the cancer that has gotten ahold of me. I am in here, would you look, and see? I am more than a diagnosis of sickness and disease. I am in ...

A 2016 poem emerged soon after 17-year-old Antwon Rose was shot and killed by a police officer in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, more than two weeks ago. Titled “I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK!”, the poem ...