These poems are from students in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, during Spring 2017, with Cheryl Clark.

And here are a few words from the poet Don Paterson about poetry and its aim “to make the texture of our perception malleable”:

“Poetry is a form of magic, because it tries to change the way we perceive the world, that is to say that it aims to make the texture of our perception malleable. It does so by surreptitious and devious means, by seeding and planting things in the memory and imagination of the reader with such force and insidious originality that they cannot be deprogrammed. What you remember changes how you think.”