#PulseStudentPoetry Prize: Student Pulse Brings You The Shortlist

Hello people!

It has been a very fun ride and a display of poetic creativity with the Season 1 of the #PulseStudentPoetry Prize!!! We got several top quality entries, touching on diverse themes, from talented young poets all over the country.

After the first voting round, the following poets made the shortlist of 5:

These poems will now go into the 2 voting round in the #PulseStudentPoetry Prize with the winner taking home a sleek Lenovo ThinkPad by the end April.

Note that the winning poem/poet will be selected by the audience: the number of total likes, shares, tweets, retweets and comments posted on the poem, will be taken into consideration.

Remember to share using the tag #PulseStudentPoetry on Twitter and also mention @PulseNigeria247.

Click the links to each of the poems above and drop a comment and/or share to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to vote for your favourite poem.

For those who did not make the shortlist, don’t despair because you have several other opportunities to clinch the prize.

The contest continues. Season 2 starts May 2, 2015, with a laptop to be won every month until December 2014.

So Watch out for the announcement!