CHS Freshman Named MontCo Youth Poet Laureate

CHS freshman Tina Ramberg-Michael has been named the 2025 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate, the Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program recently announced. The newly selected Youth Poet Laureate will be honored with a certificate recognizing her efforts, a $250 honorarium, an opportunity to compete for the Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate title, and various performance opportunities.

Ramberg-Michael will receive her recognition and read her work at an awards ceremony at Eclipse Center for Creative Community in Lansdale on Friday, April 18 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Read some of Ramberg-Michael’s work>

Ramberg-Michael has taken first place in the poetry slam at the Delaware Valley Consortium for Equity and Excellence and published her poetry with Young Inklings. Outside of school she plays cello in three orchestras throughout Philadelphia, Montgomery County, and Bucks counties. In her free time, she adores honing her creativity through making various projects with her hands, as well as learning new languages. 

“I love this poet’s surprising and vivid images, engagements with other texts, and experiments with form,” final judge Gabrielle Bates said about Ramberg-Michael’s work. “These poems feel born of real private and public necessity, attuned to ephemerality and the ancient both, full of sonic pleasure and heart. The experience of reading them lingers long after I’ve finished reading. The poem ‘Maggie,’ in particular, astonishes me with its tender intimacy and deft layering of information and time. The structure and cadence of ‘Olive Trees…’ stands out as well: such a wise, thoughtful, and moving elegy of global witness. I could go on and on, but I must stop myself. I love these poems!