Carlos Reyes

Poet and translator Carlos Reyes first came to Ireland in the early 1970s, when he purchased a three-hundred-year-old cottage in County Clare. His neighbours in Letterkelly consider him part of the family. For 40 years, Reyes was publisher and editor of Trask House Books, a poetry press. He is a founding editor of Hubbub, a poetry magazine, and served on the editorial staff of Ar Mhuin na Muice (On a Pigs Back), an Irish literary journal. He has published ten volumes of poetry, many volumes of translations, and a memoir, Keys to the Cottage, Stories from the West of Ireland (2015).  His most recent poetry book is Guilt in Our Pockets, Poems from South India (2017).  He is the recipient of a Heinrich Böll Fellowship (Achill Island, Ireland) and fellowships from Yaddo and the Fundación Valparaíso (Mojácar, Spain). Acadia National Park and Joshua Tree National Park among others have hosted him where he has served as poet-in-residence. When not travelling, Reyes makes his home in Portland, Oregon USA.