ECHS Student Wins International Poetry Competition
Tyler Cook, a junior at Clean Tech Early College High School and Ballston Spa High School, won an international poetry competition offered by the Global Learning in Agriculture initiative GLAGCreates in partnership with Poetry X Hunger. Submissions to the contest were received from locations around the globe, including Honduras and Malawi.
Tyler’s poem, Hunger Pains, was unanimously selected as the overall winner of this contest by a panel of professional poets. It was celebrated at a Poetry Café event attended by an audience of over 100 international food security experts, professional poets, and others invested in eradicating hunger. To further honor his work, The Global Teach Ag! Network (GLAG) asked hunger warriors from all over the world to read sections of Tyler's work and has compiled these into a video reading of the poem that is being used as a call to action to inspire others to work to end hunger.