Earlier this summer, Studio 360 is calling for high school authors to send in their poems inspired by the season. We’ll reveal the winner in September.
There’s still time to enter your poetry — the deadline is August 18. Get all the information here.
This week, Kurt Anderson talked with one of the young writers who sent in three poems, Magdalena, 14, from New Mexico. Magdalena’s poem “The Song” is about a fixture of summer: the one inescapable pop song that gets stuck in everyone’s head. She admits she had one particular song in mind: 2011’s “Call Me Maybe.”
By Magdalena, 14 — from New Mexico
We scream it when we hear it
And act madly
As though we haven’t heard it millions of times
This song
Is overplayed
Overrated
Overbought
It’s a song
That we will soon roll our eyes at
Flip over
Forget
But a song
That we, for now, love
Swear our anthem to be
Praise like a child
Because it’s a song
That rhymes with wasted days
And ice cream
And Summer
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