Though Trisha Paytas and her husband Moses Hacmon settled on the name Aquaman Moses Paytas-Hacmon, the couple nearly gave him an aquatic name inspired by one of his poems.

If all the world's a stage, for the Biological Misfits, one of its biggest players just left it. Dash Smith, the frontman for ...

Colacarro, who grew up in Wickliffe, an eastern Cleveland suburb, was surrounded by a comforting community as he explored his LGBTQ+ identity and eventually came out as queer. Growing up with two ...

A Story of Experience,” Alcott fictionalizes her own stints as a servant, a seamstress, a governess, and a lady’s ...

That was the message to pupils at a secondary school in Bolton, Greater Manchester, who say they have been "inspired" to ...

About 7 in 10 teenagers said completing college is “extremely” or “very” important for getting good jobs, and about 6 in 10 ...

As a homeless teenager myself, I was initially concerned that the piece would hit too close to home. My parents had lost the house in January of that same year. I was embarrassed about my ...

About 35,000 Michigan K-12 students experience homelessness each year. Detroit teen Charisma Holly tells her story.

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...

Poems for a difficult life of faith Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.