Lev Gottschalk ’26
Recently, students participated in a contest for Membean, a website for practicing vocabulary, where they wrote haikus based on a chosen word. I sat down with Abby Bozof ’27, who won the contest this year, to talk about her exciting accomplishment. Her reactions to winning were “happy, obviously,” and “accomplished,” feeling that all of her “hard work paid off.” She was also “a little bit surprised.” She chose “paradox,” because she felt that the word had a lot of possibilities and “could be explained in a lot of different ways.” I also asked her if she writes poetry outside of the contest, and she replied that she doesn’t. “It was just an assignment, but once I began doing it I enjoyed it,” she told me.
Here is Abby’s winning haiku:
Paradox
Two truths intertwine
Light and shadow share a dance
Both vague, yet defined
