Book Spine Poetry 2025

The Book Spine Poetry Contest challenges students to choose at least three books and stack them so the titles, read top to bottom, create a poem. We had a lot of really creative entries this year, both poems and entries that were not exactly poems but were so clever we wanted to acknowledge them. Therefore, we have two categories of winners: poems, and not-poems. Here's the text of the winning entries.

Poetry

First Place

A dream of freedom
Falling up
Born to fly
Before I die

Syna, 7th

Second Place

One last word
Before I die
Truce

Katherine, 7th

Third Place

The year we fell from space
Finally seen
This light between us
Unplugged

Evelyn, 6th

Honorable Mention

A dream of freedom
Undivided
A light in the darkness
Black & white
Marching for freedom
Traveling the Freedom Road

Florence, 6th

Not-Poems

First Place

Waiting for you
Before I die
Payback time

Meesha, 8th

Second Place

Anya's ghost
Frozen in time
Waiting for you

Sophie, 6th

Third Place

Date me, Bryson Keller
Out of my heart
Whatever

Ethan X., 5th