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!”, ...

Nikki Giovanni provides the foreword, adolescents from San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and the Bronx, the verse-in Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps. ""Why don't you paint me/ Like ...

ALI: And as you lie on the floor while the ref counts 10, you pray that you won't have to fight me again. ALI: For I am the man this poem is about, the next champ of the world, there isn't a doubt.

Read Part 1: ‘I Am the Bridge ... it was still taxing for me to memorize,” she said. In time, she committed to memory not only the lines of the seven-minute poem, but also her cues ...

“My 10-year-old son with Aspergers was asked to write a poem for school titled ‘I Am’ he was given the first 2 words in every sentence. This is what he wrote…,” Benjamin’s mother poste ...