Carlos Reyes attended the University of Oregon and the University of Arizona, where he did doctoral work. He has taught languages and literature at the University of Maine and Portland State University. He has published ten collections of poems, including The Book of Shadows: New and Selected Poems, and nine volumes of translations from Spanish, including Poemas de la Isla, by Josefina de la Torre, which led to her reestablishment among the great poets of Spain's "Generation of '27.
