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The Empty Chairs of February (2024) is noted poet and translator Carlos Reyes’ sixteenth published volume. Other recent poetry includes Osage Elegy (2021), The Ebbing Tide (2021), Lament for Us All (2021), Sea Smoke to Ashes (2020), Along the Flaggy Shore, (2018), Wrestling the Mistral (2026); translations: Poemas de amor y locura/Poems of Love and Madness; Selected translations (2013), and a Memoir: The Keys to the Cottage, Stories from the West of Ireland (2015). A three times finalist for the National Poetry Series, he is often nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Reyes has been a Yaddo Fellow, a fellow at the Fundación Valparaíso (Mojácar, Spain), at the Heinrich Boll Cottage (Achill Island, Ireland), and at CAMAC Center of the Arts (Marnay-sur-Seine, France). He has been poet-in-Residence at Joshua Tree National Park, the Sitka Alaska Island Institute, Acadia National Park, Devil’s Tower National Monument, and Catoctin Mountain Park National Park.
An inveterate traveler, he ventures to the Canary Islands, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Panama, and Spain giving readings of his own work and connecting with international poets. His books reflect those travels. When not traveling, he lives at the base of a dormant volcano in Portland, Oregon
