It is 1938.

The glass breaks, Kristallnacht.

She can no longer gaze through the window,

as she is pulled into the unforgiving world.

There is nothing to shield her now.

Her window is in shards.

–from Lily Jones’s winning poem, “Through the Window”

Congratulations, PVS poets!

Sophomore Lily Jones, Sophomore Riley Jorgensen, and Junior Remy Haring swept 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the Jewish Federation of the Desert’s Holocaust Poetry Competition. Lily took first place, Riley second, and Remy third. The three were acknowledged and awarded $300-$100 at a gathering on Tuesday, February 28, at the Jewish Federation in Rancho Mirage. Our poets shared their poems with the group. One audience member came up to Lily after the reading and said, “I had chills.” Lily, Riley, and Remy also met and heard stories firsthand from Holocaust Survivors.