Roses are red, violets are blue, if you don’t go to Poetry Club, the jokes on you.

This year Parkway South has added a new club after school, Poetry Club. Every Tuesday Poetry club meets in either English teacher, Melissa Gebhard’s room or English teacher, Steve Wissinger room. They are the founders of the Club.

Wissinger said that depending on the day, between 8-12 students are in Poetry Club.

Gebhard, says that the poetry groups change their activities each meeting.

“Sometimes we share our favorite poems from other authors, sometimes we write, usually based on a prompt”,  Gebhard said. “One day, we did a round-robin [with the finished products hanging outside the classroom]”.  

For their next meeting,October 27th,  in the spirit of Halloween, Gebhard said the club is going to do another round-robin with a spooky theme. They will also share spooky/dark poetry.

Gebhard also said, they will attempt to publish their own poems, and also enter contests.  

“We also plan to send entries to the Express the Music contest hosted by the St. Louis Symphony…as well as explore other contests and publishing opportunities. We also hope to publish a collection of our own original works. I hope this helps!”

In Poetry Club, the students share with each other the poems that they have written before, and they also write poems together. Last but not least, they share their all time favorite poems and poets.

Senior, Maleah Fallahi is a member of the Poetry Club

“People should join the Poetry Club because it’s an interesting dynamic to learn from, and we get snacks usually”.

She also said that her favorite poet is E.E. Cummings, because she likes his different style, it reminds her that poetry has no rules and really makes her dig deeper to find meaning in his work.

Senior, Carly Walton is also a member of the Poetry Club. Her favorite poet is Anne Sexton because she likes dark poetry. She loves her stylistic choices and her use of extended metaphors. She writes very honestly which Walton finds very refreshing and resonating. Walton likes a lot about Poetry Club, but the most important thing she likes about the club is how opened minded everyone is.

“Each one of us writes differently, so it’s super interesting to read and share our poetry”. Walton said.

She said she wouldn’t want to change anything about the club, but if she could think of anything she said maybe they could change the scenery for each meeting so they can be inspired by different environments.