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 Fundacion 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.

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Other poems on the web by Carlos Reyes:
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About Along the Flaggy Shore: Poems from West Clare:

"n his new book, Along the Flaggy Shore, Carlos Reyes meditates on the presence of the past and the passing of the present in poems which roam the west of Ireland in a kind of modern-day bardic circuit. Every poem is an occasion to halt and take stock of places, people, and events whose rich details are noticed by few and whose stories tremble on the edge of forgetting. Every poem shores images of the local, the small, the intimate against the traumatic storm of history whose grand narratives too often drown out the voices from the backwaters. This book, then, is a proclamation of what it ought to mean to be a “tenant of the world”, of how transience can be embraced without fear or hope, but made luminous in poems whose very existence pass on the words by which the future might truly know us."
—Ger Killeen