Love in Farsi by Madeleine Kashkooli, age 17, California

Between Gaza and Me by Nada Alaloul, age 17, from Rafa, Palestine

Being Split by Preston Young, age 10, New York

Eons of Thought by Manvi Gupta, Madhya Pradesh, India

Why Aren’t We? by Henry Bakos, H.S. Junior, Washington

The World of Table Tennis by Viraj Ajgaonkar, age 10, grade 6, India

Name the Past for Our Future by Laurel Aronian, age 17, Connecticut

Perspective by Surabhi Verma, grade 11, California

Memories of a Guava Tree by Dawson Yee, age 13, California

Ohana by Likhita Makam, age 15, Telangana, Indiana

Resilience, a Black History Month poem by Arianna Shaprow, age 12, Nevada

Balance by Aadya Agarwal, age 12, New Jersey

Fear of Failure by Olivia Macy Leonard, age 15, New York

Betrayal by Siah Giji, age 13, New York

Let It Have Meaning by Bansi Balar, age 17, Texas

Stone Soup by Laurel Aronian, age 16, New York

A City of Thieves by Suprya Sarkar, 16, Connecticut

Mr. Liberation Theology by Suprya Sarkar, 16, Connecticut

Stand Out by Likhita Makam, 15, Hyderabad, India

Consumption by Lucy Jones, 15, Wales, UK

Can You Live? by Emiliano Dietrich-Jimenez, age, 13, New York

Battle Under the Setting Sun by Beau Heese, grade 8, Missouri

Cinderella, a Poem by Tanvi Arunkumar, Grade 4, India

The 2022 Young Poet Award Winners:Carina and Nova

Nature Is This and This Is I by Arya Khan, age 8, Illinois

El Músico by Denisse Gonzalez-Amador, age 14, Texas

What Would Our Ancestors Think by Daniel Liu, age 16, New York

The First Casualties in the War Against Earth by Daniel Liu, age 16, New York

Threats, Not Peace by Delaney Sheldon, grade 8, Virginia

The Irreversible Apocalypse by Fathima Nazer Karakkadan, sophomore, KSA

Nature Haiku by Grace Coleman, age 15, California

When Spring Comes by Robyn Bjorkman, age 10, Michigan

Six Rivers, Many Peoples, One Tree by Michael Mavris, 5th Grade, California

Haiku by Evaani Kapoor, age 7, Virginia

Global Warming by Derek Meng, age 10, California

Where Were You When I Needed You? by Lyla Hershkovitz, grade 6, California

In the Forest within the City Park by Jaslene Kwack, age 11, Illinois

Life Is Never Fair by Jacob Henderson, 18, Illinois.

Colors of Ukraine and Silk Paintings by Camille Campbell, age 17, Arizona

My Mask by Dylan Margolis, age 10, Oregon. Art by Claire Sonia Hsu, age 7, Indonesia

The lure of the Extraordinary Peacock by Prachi Kothari, 11, India

Festival of Mid-Autumn Moon by Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai, 16, Arkansas

Poems by Sophie Rodriguez, age 9, Illinois

Love by Riya Sikka, 9, Melbourne, Australia

The Unforgettable Memories of School by Simerah Pinto, 13, Dubai, UAE

Fly by Ritika Rawat, grade 5, New Jersey

The Perfect Family by Zsuzsanna Juhasz, age 15, Maryland

My View by Julia Dun Rappaport, grade 9, Massachusetts

Advice to My Younger Self by Michael Sitarski, 17, Missouri

In My Wildest Dreams by Lyla Hershkovitz, Laurence School, California

Dare I Say / Y Me Atrevo a Decir by Cassandra Martens Diaz, 17, Canada

Way of Hand and Foot by Beau Heese, grade 7, Missouri

Ten Square Feet by Beau Heese, grade 7, Missouri

Beneath the Surface by Riley Ball, age 14, grade 8, Missouri

Amethyst Dream by Haylee Woessner, grade 7, Missouri

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman, California

mud&water by Saanvi Nayar, age 16, New Jersey

When my Grandfather Holds my Grandmother by Samantha Liu, 16, New Jersey

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