CARLOS REYES, Author of several poetry collections including most recently At the Edge of the Western Wave.

Carlos Reyes is an Irish-American poet blessed with an Hispanic name. He is the bard of Cloonanaha (County Clare, Irleand) and a poet in Portland, Oregon. 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.” 

TRAVIS CHAMP, Nehalem born and bred. Travis Champ recently released a thirty-poem collection, Old Nehalem Road.  As Nestucca Spit Publisher Matt Love wrote in his introduction to the book, “I first heard Travis Champ read his poetry in January of 2007, at an annual Friends of William Stafford gathering in Lincoln City. He had hitchhiked 80 miles from Manzanita to read one short poem, and when I heard it in a church that winter night, I was transfixed.