Creative Writing Club Holds "Cheesy Bad Love Poetry" Contest

In honor of Valentine's Day, Niskayuna High School’s very own Creative Writing club, located in room D107, hosted a cheesy bad love poetry contest. Participants dug into the depths of their souls to drum up dramatically repulsive love confessions they then transcribed into poetry. The result was a large pool of poems on diverse topics with varying measures of quality. Quite a few poets chose to base their poems off of food, playing off the word “cheesy” in the contest’s name, while others wrote misogynistic pieces that were derogatory towards women, referring to them as “objects”. 

Creative Writing club was overwhelmed by the vast number of entries (a whopping sixty), in contrast to their 2022 Cheesy Bad Love Poetry Contest. This is most likely due to, in part, the number of English teachers who offered extra credit in return for entering the contest.

Once the poems were in, the tenacious Mrs. White had less than half a day to photocopy each poem four times over, and cross off the contestants names (by hand!) on the three photocopies, leaving the originals in a separate pile. This was a process that took hours to complete. Next, Mrs. White had to give each of the three student judges a copy of all sixty poems, keeping the fourth photocopy for herself. The judges then had less than twenty-four hours to read through the hefty stack, before coming in on the morning of February 16th to discuss a winner.

After much deliberation, the judges were able to produce two winners: Rojan Javaheri and Mary Kate Cestaro.