Mountain Writers Series is reviving its reading series with monthly events at Mother Foucault's Bookshop in S.E. Portland
Join us for poetry and prose readings featuring award-winning poets & writers.

Henry Hughes is the author of five collections of poetry, including Sergeant Dark (Lost Horse, 2026), Men Holding Eggs (2004 Oregon Book Award), Moist Meridian (2011 Finalist for the Oregon Book Award), Shutter Lines (2012, with photos by Paul Gentry) and Bunch of Animals (2016). His fishing memoir, Back Seat with Fish: A Man’s Adventures in Angling and Romance, was published in 2016 by Skyhorse. He is the editor of the Everyman’s Library anthologies, The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing, Fishing Stories, and River Poems, and his poems and essays related to fishing appear in Gray’s Sporting Journal, Anglers Journal, The American Fly Fisher, and The Flyfish Journal. Hughes is the director of Write Place: Literature, Arts & the Environment, and a professor of literature and writing at Western Oregon University.

Carlos Reyes has published a prose memoir and twenty books of poetry, most recently Into the Journey’s Eye, Selected Poems 2012-2024 (Lynx House, 2026), What Shelters Us, What Doesn’t (2026), and The Four Hinges of the World (2023). In 1971, Carlos started Trask House Books, a small press that published poetry books, chapbooks, and broadsides by dozens of poets, among them Robert Duncan, Marvin Bell, Jane Hirshfield, Tess Gallagher, Paulann Petersen, Peter Sears, Christopher Howell, Vern Rutsala, Alice Derry, Yannis Ritsos, Ger Killeen, Martin Espada, Gloria Bird, Patricia Geodicke, Clem Starck, Sandra Williams, Phil Garrison, and more. Reyes considers himself a poet of place, taking inspiration from any landscape where he finds himself. His writing is informed by the places he has lived — Missouri, the Pacific Northwest, Maine, Arizona — and by the places and people he has visited in Europe, South America, and Asia. Reyes lives in Portland.