Alter ed is a collection of poems about what happens after you are changed.
After love, after loss, after the moments that fracture you into who you were and who you are becoming.
These pages hold the echoes of old selves, the ache of transformation, and the quiet courage it takes to keep evolving.
This book is for anyone who has been undone and rebuilt by their own experiences—
for those who have outgrown their past but still carry its shape.
Every poem is a reflection of becoming someone new, even when the process is painful, messy, or beautiful.
Alter ed is not about who I was.
It is about who I am in the in-between
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Chey Joined: Jan-14-2026 |
Chey Baker is a poet who writes from the spaces most people try to avoid—the in-between, the breaking points, the moments when feeling becomes too loud to ignore. Their work explores love, loss, identity, and the quiet resilience it takes to keep becoming, even after everything changes.
Through raw honesty and lyrical storytelling, Chey invites readers to sit with their own emotions and find beauty in the places that once hurt. Alter ed is their way of turning experience into language, and pain into something that can be held.
