Poetry Night

Poetry Night occurs at CTY Carlisle on the first Thursday, second Thursday, and last Wednesday of every session. Fundamentally, it consists of CTY students performing poetry in varying forms from the wall near Quad 7, that is, " the stage." Performances may consist of traditional poetry (written by the student, other students, previous authors, etc.), songs, raps, and almost anything else that involves words being vocalized. The event is presided over by the Poetry Deity ("Poetry God" if male, "Poetry Goddess" if female"), who has the duty to lay out rules and guidelines, as well as opening and closing the Night with their own performances. At the end of the last night, the Poetry Deity passes on the role to the person (always one year before their no-more year) he/she considers to be most embodying of the spirit of Poetry Night, to be Deity for the same session of the next year. In the event that the new Deity fails to come to their session, or the line is not continued for whatever reason, a new Deity must be manually chosen, potentially through election.

General rules for Poetry Night:

No disclaimers (downing one's own poetry because "I'm not a very good poet," or "I wrote this really fast," or "This is probably really bad," etc. etc. etc.)

Nothing CTY-innapropriate.

Funny poetry is allowed, but blatantly spam-like performances (such as recitations of "Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall") are not permitted.

Poetry Night's origins remain unknown, at least to me (Philip, upcoming Poetry God for CTY Carlisle 2007 Session II). Anyone with details on its history, please fill us in.