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By Mariana Bartolo Ortiz 10th grade, Woodburn High School, OR First place contest winner With lines from "Memory and Protest of Femicide in Juárez" by Erika Schultz, Corinne Chin, Claudia Castro Luna, Vianna Davila, and Norma Ledezma Ortega, a Pulitzer Center webinar i. guardian angel ángel de la

By Elena Stevens 11th grade, Piedmont High School, CA With lines from “Criminal Justice or Criminal Injustice? The Power of Language” by Meera Santhanam, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Every individual is defined, labeled External opinions are jars with lids Trapping, pinning We are slammed

By Asa T. B. 6th grade, OH With lines from ”‘It’s Not for the Faint-Hearted’: The Story of India’s Intrepid Women Seaweed Divers” by Kamala Thiagarajan, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Women sit on a warm, sandy shore With turquoise waters stretching as far as the eye can see Just as they have

By Heona Liu 8th grader, Bigelow Middle School, MA With lines from “In Lebanon, Parents Abandoning Their Children in Orphanages" by Wendell Steavenson, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The rich Plummet to the poor, Down down down A sinking ship. So those who have assisted Are in need of

By Francisco Sarmiento-Fernandez 7th grade, Greene Street Friends School, PA Honorable mention With lines from “Until We Are Gone” by Sofia Aldinio, a Pulitzer Center reporting project *Translated by Hannah Berk. Click here to read this poem in the original Spanish. Do you remember the forest palms

By Kaelin David 11th grade, Walnut High School, CA With lines from “Teen Widows: The Growing Legacy of Duterte’s Drug War” by Ana P. Santos, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Content warning: This poem contains violence and drug use drawn from the news story to which it responds. i. for jazmine

By Jordan Naseem 10th grade, Liberty High School, MO With lines from “Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Beaten, and Abused in India” by Varsa Bansal, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Content warning: This poem contains violence drawn from the news story to which it responds. Clicks as I turn the

By Francisco Sarmiento-Fernandez 7th grade, Greene Street Friends School, PA Honorable mention Con frases de “Until We Are Gone” por Sofia Aldinio, un proyecto de periodismo apoyado por el Pulitzer Center *Click here to read an English-language translation of this poem. ¿Te acuerdas las palmas

By Ares Bandebo-Cambra 5th grade, Old Greenwich School, CT With lines from "The Mining Industry’s Next Frontier is Deep, Deep Under the Sea" by Vince Beiser, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Further frontiers open under the sea. A frantic knocking, humans’ bequest; Large nodules are answers to

By Beatrix Stone 11th grade, Strathcona High School, Edmonton, Canada With lines from “‘It’s Not for the Faint-hearted’: The Story of India’s Intrepid Women Seaweed Divers” by Kamala Thiagarajan, a Pulitzer Center reporting project What was mere water now hope, Washing bright colours clean of pain

By Daniel Yim 12th grade, Bellarmine College Preparatory, CA Third place contest winner With lines from “The President, the Soccer Hooligans and an Underworld ‘House of Horrors’” by Robert Worth, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Content warning: This poem contains some violent imagery and

By Sofia Celli 6th grade, Village School, MA Honorable mention With lines from “In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up” by Georgina Gustin and Larry C. Price, a Pulitzer Center reporting project there is nothing left no plants no mud no leaves on the worn

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By Claire He 11th grade, Carmel High School, IN With lines from "‘Ticking Ecological Time Bombs’: Thousands of Sunken WWII Ships Rusting at Bottom of Pacific" by Thomas Heaton, a Pulitzer Center reporting project the graveyard juts like her ribcage from the seabed. drowned, it carries ghosts both

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