Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells’s sixth and latest book of poetry is The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas, translated from the Catalan, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in March 2019. He has received the Balcones Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, two NEA grants, and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. (updated 4/2019)

Cassells’s AGNI poem “Elegy with a Gold Cradle” was chosen for The Best American Poetry 2017.