Cyrus Cassells (Incoming Writing Fellow 2023) was appointed 2021 Texas Poet Laureate. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, Cassells has won the National Poetry Series, a Lambda Literary Award, two NEA grants, a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award. His forthcoming collection “The World That the Shooter Left Us” will be published by Four Way Books in March 2022. See the Texas Commission on the Arts’ announcement here.
Cyrus Cassells Appointed 2021 Texas Poet Laureate
