“Poetry gives students a safe place to be creative [inside and] outside of the club,” Amy Pine, library media specialist, said. “I would like to see more students get involved. If we were an official club, we could probably put together a team and have me be the team sponsor.”

Since the school does not have an official poetry club, a group of students dedicate their late start Mondays to meeting in the library and reading their poetry.

“I volunteered to chaperone and the students come on their own time,” Pine said. “We meet during late start Mondays in the library classroom. We had about 10 kids show up on the first day without any sort of announcement that we were [meeting]. It was by word of mouth and some of the kids started a group chat, so it was a really great start.” 

Megan Groeller, senior, organized the first meeting and has taken the responsibility of organizing the rest. The club needs a constant attendance of at least 15 people for a pilot year to get recognized as a school club.

“It’s a great way to start Mondays. You get to listen to a bunch of peoples’ ideas and perform your own work,” Groeller said. “It’s just a great feeling.”

Groeller hopes to find more students with a passion for poetry and hopes that more students join the club.

“If we do another Writer’s’ day this year, which I hope we do, hopefully that will get students involved and sharing their poetry,” Pine said. “Hopefully we can put something in the announcements so students know if they want to join, they can come next Monday.”

The students will continue to meet and carry on the poetry club legacy by former member Paige Savarese in hopes to make a team for competitions.

“We had a couple student compete last year in a competition called “Louder Than a Bomb,” on their own time since we are not actually a school sponsored club, who made it all the way to finals,” Pine said. “I love Paige [Savarese], we all miss her, and she is the one who got this ball rolling, but I was pretty blown away by the first day of school when kids came in with poetry ready to share. I think they are carrying on her legacy very well.”