About Us

The Nightingale Society strives to help Bowdoin College students de-stress and connect through writing, reading, and sharing poetry. We meet weekly for an hour to engage in a unique poetry writing activity that challenges and expands our notions of form, language, and collaboration. Toward the end of meetings, members can share their impromptu and selected pieces in a safe environment. We also engage in self-led initiatives to bring poetry (and occasionally visiting professional poets) to the greater Bowdoin community, including but not limited to distributing hundreds of personally written haikus on Valentines Day, posting our poetry publicly for poetry month, and creating an anthology.