Description
Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? (Four Way Books: March 2024) is Cyrus Cassells’s ninth and latest volume. Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022 (TCU Press) and Lorca to the Umpteenth Power (3: A Taos Press) are forthcoming in 2025 and 2026. He served as the 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas. Among his honors: a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. The World That the Shooter Left Us (2022) was a Housatonic Book Award finalist and The Gospel according to Wild Indigo (2018) a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas (2019) and The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu (2023) , translated from the Catalan, were both awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ biennial Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book. Cassells teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University, where he is a Regents’ and University Distinguished Professor of English. Photo by Eyoel Kahssay.
Additional information
| Discipline | Words |
|---|---|
| Contact name | Cyrus Cassells |
| Contact address | Austin TX |
| Phone 1 | 512-245-3799 |
| Phone 2 | |
| Public Performance | $1, 750 – $3, 250 |
| School performance | $2, 000 – $3, 500 |
| Workshop fees | $3, 500 – $5, 000 |
| Travel per diem lodging | |
| City | Austin |
| Website | |
| Special audiences | Libraries, Schools, Seniors |
| School audiences | High |
| Venue size | Medium, Smaller, Unplugged |
