South Hamilton Student's Poetry Featured in Fine Arts Magazine

A senior at South Hamilton’s Pingree School has had two of his poems published in the most recent issue of The Marble Collection: Massachusetts High School Magazine of the Arts.

Daniel Peters’ poems, “This Is How Human Beings Can Change” and “Engraved,” were selected for their “artistic excellence” by a jury for publication out of submissions from more than 200 schools and community’s across the state, according to a press release.

“Writing poetry is a way of capturing my observations and experiences,” Peters said in the press release. “My art teacher, Mr. Erickson, always says that a true artist constantly observes and discovers in any setting, even if it as simple as discerning a shape from the cracks on the sidewalk. My poetry is a result of this creative consciousness– it is an extension of anything that I experience. It is the manifestation of that which troubles me, inspires me, amazes me, and befuddles me. The concepts that I obtain through conscious observation of my world are the foundation of my writing. My current work explores the ignorance of man. It is this ignorance that enables us to decimate delicate ecosystems and pollute endlessly without realizing that it undermines not only the natural environment but our future as a race.”

After being selected for publication, Peters attended a TMC writing workshop where he was paired with a college student mentor who worked with him to “refine his voice” and prepare his work for publication before ”real-world audiences.”

You can read Peters’ poems, as well as view other artistic works by Massachusetts students, in the new edition of The Marble Collection, which hits stands in May.