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By Mikail Yasir 9th grade, New Tech High @ Coppell, TX With lines from "Cost of a KitKat: Big Brands Leave Sugar Farmers at the Mercy of Climate Extremes" by Arvind Shukla, Gurman Bhatia, Isabelle Gerretsen, Mayank Aggarwal, and Meenal Upreti, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Nestlé World's

By Sophia Tranquillo 10th grade, Whetstone High School, OH With lines from "‘The Talk:’ These Teens From Rural Utah Are Filling ‘The Gaps’ in Sex Ed" by Becky Jacobs and Jesse Ryan, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Content warning: This poem contains themes of sexual assault. Skin: Noun. A thin

The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for its initiative focused on climate change and its effects on workers and work. As the world heats up, what jobs and employment sectors, what factory practices, what sorts of manufacturing–from computer chips to batteries to food production to fast

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

O Fundo Semear é uma microbolsa oferecida pelo Pulitzer Center, aplicada à projetos de educação, para financiar atividades que enriqueçam as perspectivas e os conhecimentos da comunidade universitária—especificamente estudantes e educadores—sobre os problemas, soluções e inovações relacionadas com o

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

By Shezal Bardaie 9th grade, New Tech High @ Coppell, TX With lines from "The Mystifying Rise of Suicide in Pakistan’s Thar Desert" by Alizeh Kohari, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Content notes: This poem contains themes and descriptions of suicide. Chaman Lal received a call from home. His

By Ava Heydarian 11th grade, Walter Johnson High School, MD Honorable mention With lines from "The Story of Al-Eizariya: Jerusalem's Town Forgotten Behind the Wall" by Laila Shadid, a Pulitzer Center reporting project “Where are you right now?” He asked, Standing on the known side Not the side

By Brooke Deegan 9th grade, Pine-Richland High School, PA Honorable mention With lines from "Drawn to War: A Ukraine Journal” by George Butler, a Pulitzer Center reporting project violent clouds looming above ancient tarnished cobblestone streets threatening gray, brimful with dismay of its presence

By Vivian Zhu 11th grade, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, IL Second place contest winner With lines from "The Blue That Enchanted the World" by Caroline Gutman and Latria Graham, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I. Lowcountry, 1750 Among the black gum trees, live oaks, & scrub brush, crop rows

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