The people and moments that continue to shape the present.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE PAGES
Somewhere between the words and the waves.
I’m Shane Clouthier. I write about the things that stay with us: the people, places, losses, loves, questions, and moments that make a life what it is.
SHANE
THE POET
THE POET
Shane the Poet
A life, translated into lines.
I have never thought of poetry as something that needs to be distant or difficult. For me, it has always been a way to give shape to things that are hard to explain out loud.
My writing comes from lived experience: love and loss, memory and change, resilience, uncertainty, family, connection, and the strange ways time rearranges the meaning of things. Some pieces begin with a specific moment. Others take years to understand. Eventually, they find their way onto the page.
I write as Shane the Poet, but the work is simply mine: personal reflections offered in the hope that someone else might recognize a piece of their own story in them.
These are just footnotes of someone else’s journey.
Why I writeMemory Connection Becoming
Making something out of what stays.
More than three hundred poems have gathered here since 2003. They are markers: snapshots of who I was, what I was carrying, what I misunderstood, what I learned, and what I was still trying to say.
The distance between us, and the things that bring us closer.
The unfinished work of understanding who we are.
The books
The words came first.
Collections from different stretches of the writing journey.
Minced Words
Twenty Twenty
Shattered ReflectionsThe other side of the words
When the poems found a voice.
Only Anthem grew from a question: what would these poems sound like if they could become the music I had always heard somewhere in my head? It brings the writing into another form, turning poems into songs and giving familiar words a different way to reach someone.
The words came first. The music found them later.
ONLY
ANTHEM.
ANTHEM.