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By Fiona Jin 10th grade, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, IL With lines from "A World Without Men" by Anna Sussman, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I have rinsed your name from my mouth. Four months in front of a dirty mirror is enough to realize my vocabulary of pain, how I learned how to smile

By Ivi Hua 10th grade, Mead High School, WA With lines from "Colonias and the American Dream Are One and the Same for Residents" by Carolina Cuellar, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. American, call me your garden of prosperity. this fickle paradise, a harvested blight. these men, lulled into

By Casey Costello 6th grade, F.A. Day Middle School, MA With lines from “Louisiana’s Coastline is Crumbling. These Tribes Know How to Save It” by Lorena O’Neil and Akasha Rabut, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In a place where the waves are always crashing and the wind is always blowing and the

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

O Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund (Amazon RJF) abre um edital emergencial para a cobertura das violações à floresta amazônica no Vale do Javari, no estado do Amazonas, e para acompanhar as buscas pelo jornalista britânico Dom Phillips e pelo indigenista brasileiro Bruno Pereira, caso eles não

El Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund (Amazon RJF) convocatoria de emergencia para cubrir las violaciones a la selva amazónica en Vale do Javari, en el estado de Amazonas, y para acompañar la búsqueda del periodista británico Dom Phillips y del indigenista brasileño Bruno Pereira, en caso de que no

The Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund (Amazon RJF) is opening an emergency call to cover the violations to the Amazon forest in Vale do Javari, in the state of Amazonas, and to accompany the search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, in case they are

This letter features reporting from “Summer Heat Can Lead to Adverse Health Restrictions for Residents Across D.C.” by multiple journalist-grantees from Hola Cultura, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Congressman McClintock, In my health class, I could hear the throats of my friends struggle