Cyrus Cassells
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Cyrus Cassells (born 1957) is an American poet.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Cassells was born in Dover, Delaware. He graduated in 1979 from Stanford University. Cassells has won many awards including the Lambda Literary Award and the William Carlos Williams Award. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994 for Soul Make A Path Through Shouting. Cassells currently teaches poetry at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas for the Texas State University MFA.
[edit] Awards
- William Carlos Williams Award for Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
- Lambda Literary Award for Beautiful Signor
- National Poetry Series Prize for The Mud Actor
- Peter I.B.Lavan Younger Poet Award
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Rockefeller Fellowship
- Lannan Fellowship
[edit] Bibliography
Poetry
- The Mud Actor (Holt, 1982)
- Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Copper Canyon Press, 1994)
- Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Press, 1997)
- More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)
