Pulitzer Centre Fighting Words Poetry Contest 2022 for Secondary School Students
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15th May 2022, 11:59pm EST
How can poetry be an effective response to current events and underreported stories? How can we use poetry to connect global issues to our local and personal contexts? Students are invited to explore these questions and make their voices heard in their entries to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest.
Contest
Any current K-12 student in the United States or internationally may enter. Students may write in any language, and are welcome to submit multilingual poems. Judges will have reading fluency in English and Spanish.
Poems will be judged by the following criteria:
1. Success of the poem on its own terms (craft, linguistic style, emotion, etc.)
2. Successful inclusion of lines quoted from a Pulitzer Center story
3. Thoughtful choice of perspective and respectful treatment of subject matter
Pulitzer Centre Fighting Words Poetry Contest 2022 for Secondary School Students
USA & International
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Go to the Pulitzer Center website and select a story (see the “Suggested Stories” tab above for a curated list). Write a poem of any form and length that includes lines from the story. Include an epigraph in the following format: With lines from “STORY TITLE” by JOURNALIST NAME, a Pulitzer Center reporting project.
SUBMIT YOUR POEM USING THIS ENTRY FORM!
The form will ask for some basic information, and you will upload your poem to the form as an attachment. You may also upload an audio or video file of yourself performing your poem; this file is optional, but the text file is required.
If you have questions about these guidelines or if the entry form is not accessible to you, please email education@pulitzercenter.org.
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