A collection of reporting from Pulitzer Center grantees featuring stories published by media outlets from around the world, as well as reporting original to the Pulitzer Center website.
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A collection of reporting from Pulitzer Center grantees featuring stories published by media outlets from around the world, as well as reporting original to the Pulitzer Center website.
![Media file: AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026.JPG](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026_0.JPG.webp?h=56d0ca2e&itok=UutLqFjY "Zarmina Shehadi's mother Simin Gula and father Khel Mohammad. They denied that Zarmina wrote poetry or that her death was suicide. “It was an accident. She was trying to get warm after a bath, but the firewood was wet, so she poured petrol on it and caught herself on fire.” And no, her daughter absolutely did not like writing or reading or poetry, her mother argued. “She was a good girl, an uneducated girl. She was a good tailor. Our girls don’t want to go to school." Image by Seamus Murphy. Afghanistan, 2012.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-01-15/landay.jpg.webp?h=4a9a4139&itok=hk4BMTiP "A still shot from PBS Newshour's "Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afgan Life" in which Seamus Murphy narrates a slideshow of some of his favorite images.")
