A local wordsmith has received one of the highest honors a writer can achieve. Austin resident Cyrus Cassells has been named the 2022 Poet Laureate Fell
He is the author of
The World That the Shooter Left Us (Four Way Books, 2022);
More Than Watchmen at Daybreak (Nine Mile Books, 2020);
The Gospel According to Wild Indigo (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018);
The Crossed-Out Swastika (Copper Canyon Press, 2012);
More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004);
Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Press, 1997), which won the Lambda Literary Award;
Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Copper Canyon Press, 1994), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the William Carlos Williams Award; and
The Mud Actor (Henry, Holt & Co., 1982), which was a National Poetry Series selection.
Cassells is the recipient of a 1995 Pushcart Prize, the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has worked as a translator, film critic, actor, and teacher.