Poetry Contest

Celebrating Creative Voices

The Christ College Poetry Contest invites first-year students to explore poetic expression in a fun and welcoming format rooted in academic tradition.

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Lighting the Fire with Verse

Each fall, the first-year class participates in the CC Poetry Contest.

During the past eleven years, the Poetry Contest has featured the Japanese poetic genre of the haiku. This year, we returned to the older tradition of writing limericks. The first-year student whose poem is chosen “lights the fire” in the Commons for the first time of the year. This year’s winner joins the pantheon of CC poetry writers who have come before them, including:

The Winner – CC First-Year Student Nick Greiner ’28

Read and discuss texts

Rehearse the musical now

Get up and repeat

Runner Up – CC First-Year Student Ava Donnowitz ’28

Sat in the Commons

A blank document open

Wait… what is the prompt?

Runner Up – CC First-Year Student Cam Haggett ’28

Leaves crunch underfoot

As I walk to Mueller Hall

Ready to Discuss