Need a smile? Read the winners of the Star Tribune Limerick Contest They're poets and these COVID-themed verses for the Star Tribune Limerick Contest show it. April 23, 2021 — 11:21am Video (00:55) : The Star Tribune held a limerick contest, and Brenda Corbett's ditty about COVID was chosen as the winner. Text size Copy shortlink: Spring is when a limerick writer's fancy apparently turns to thoughts of vaccinated and unmasked love. At least that's the conclusion you might reach from some of the submissions we received in the Star Tribune Limerick Contest. About 2,000 poems were e-mailed to us to help celebrate National Poetry Month with limericks on the theme of the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.