March 16, 2010
This Thursday the Tea Party Book Shop in Salem, Oregon is hosting its Third Thursday Poets series with “Wearin’ O’the Green,” a nod to all things green and Irish. The shop will feature two poets: Paul Hunter and Carlos Reyes from 5:30-7pm.
A poet featured on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Paul Hunter has published letterpress poetry under the imprint of Wood Works for the past 15 years. His farming collection, Breaking Ground, reviewed in The New York Times, won the 2004 Washington State Book Award. Companion volumes include Ripening, 2007, and Come the Harvest, 2008. His latest book, One Seed to Another: The New Small Farming, is prose, and has just appeared from The Small Farmer’s Journal.
Carlos Reyes is a noted poet, writer and translator. Of his work Carolyn Kizer has said: “Mr. Reyes is one of our local and national treasures. His poetry is as clear and strong as his social conscience. One is always struck by his sensual and sensory qualities: the touch, taste, feel, color of things, and his ability to capture a mood, a world, in a handful of lines.”
His latest book of poetry is The Book of Shadows; New and Selected Poems (2009). Other recent books include At the Edge of the Western Wave (2004) A Suitcase Full of Crows (1995) (a Bluestem Prize winner and finalist for 1996 Oregon Book Awards). His books of translations are Poemas de la Isla/Island Poems by Josefina de la Torre (Eastern Washington University Press, 2000).
— posted by
Jamie