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Carlos Reyes and Jennifer Richter: Poetry Reading
About Carlos Reyes's The Empty Chairs of February:
This poetry collection clearly shows that the poet is a fine artist. These poems are quite simple, sweet and satisfying. Each one of these poems is written in beautiful word-pattern and enchanting melody. The poems included in this poetry collection aptly show the capacity of imaginative leap, which makes a great poet. Nothing in these poems is more arresting than their intense imagination.
The Empty Chairs of February is noted poet and translator Carlos Reyes's sixteenth published volume. Other recent poetry includes The Four Hinges of the World (2023), 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 (2023); 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 ValparaÃso (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 Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska, Acadia National Park, Devil’s Tower National Monument, and Catoctin Park National Park. For more information please see: carlosreyespoet.com
About Jennifer Richter's Dear Future:
In poems both dark and playful, wondering and shrewd, Jennifer Richter brings her reader the world we truly inhabit: where everyone is in danger, where awe still thrives, where we can laugh even in the face of our own mortality, where everything and everyone is worth saving. Her dynamic, unpredictable lines will delight with an irreverent and yet classically honed muscularity, even as the breath-taking scope of her subject matter will have each reader looking up from the book with a new way of seeing.
Jennifer Richter's third poetry collection, Dear Future, was chosen by Felicia Zamora as winner of the Tenth Gate Prize for midcareer poets and was released in May 2024. Natasha Trethewey chose Richter's first collection, Threshold, as a winner in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; her second collection, No Acute Distress, was a Crab Orchard Editor's Selection, and both were named Oregon Book Award Finalists. Richter was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in Poetry by Stanford University; she currently teaches in OSU's MFA program.
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