Sheltered In The Valley: Poems

Sheltered In The Valley: Poems gathers a series of quiet, resonant works that settle into the landscape of memory, place, and belonging. In this chapbook, Spencer Sheehan-Kalina writes from within the folds of the valley—where shelter can feel both protective and confining, and where the natural world mirrors the inner self.

These poems move gently through themes of home, queerness, solitude, and return, tracing the subtle ways we seek refuge and risk stepping beyond it. Attentive and deeply felt, each piece offers a moment of stillness shaped by weather, terrain, and the body’s own shifting ground.

Tender and contemplative, Sheltered In The Valley: Poems invites readers to dwell in the spaces that hold us—and to consider what it means to stay, to leave, and to grow.