World Poetry Contest Winners
On March 21st, over 600 students from 22 countries celebrated World Poetry Day by joining the PenPal Schools Global Poetry Contest. Students wrote and shared original poetry, then voted for their favorite poems written by their peers!
In the Global Poetry Contest, students wrote poetry about nature, colors, and loved ones. Their poems expressed emotions like grief, love, and gratitude. While many poems received an impressive number of votes, the two poems that received the most votes and won the contest were from New Zealand. The two student winners chose to write poems about the recent terrorist attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. Their poems describe the pain, fear, hope, and unity, that people in New Zealand experience as a result of the terror attacks. Please take a few moments to read these powerful student-authored poems and learn how PenPals from around the world reacted to these powers poems: https://www.penpalschools.com/blog/announcing-the-global-poetry-contest-winners