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Carlos Reyes at Chaparral Books
December 12, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreePoet and translator Carlos Reyes lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a traveler and conscientious observer of the natural world and its responses to human impact. Whether he journeys to Alaska, Ecuador, France, India, Ireland, or Panama, those travels and observations inform his poetry.
His awards and honors include: Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship for Poetry; Fellow Island Institute (Sitka, Alaska, 2011); Heinrich Boll Fellow (Achill Island, Ireland, 2008); and Fellow at Yaddo (1982). A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995) was a Bluestem Prize winner and finalist for the Oregon Book Awards. At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004), under various titles, was a 3-time finalist for the National Poetry Series (1993, 1995, 2002).
He has been Poet in Residence at many places, among them Devils Tower National Monument (2013) and Joshua Tree National Park (2009), as well as Camac Centre d’Arte (France, 2015) and Fundación Valparaíso (Spain, 1999, 2012).
His poetry books include: Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart (2012); The Book of Shadows: New and Selected Poems (2009); At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004); A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995); Nightmarks (1990); The Shingle Weaver’s Journal (1980); Guilt in our Pockets, Poems from South India (2017); and Along the Flaggy Shore (2018).
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