Search Results for: "Cyrus Cassells"
ANTIZIONIST ABECEDARIAN
by sam sax | Jan 4, 2020 | Poetry…ing leading American poets who address issues of racism, human rights, and exile, among other social themes in their work. The project is curated by Cyrus Cassells, whose most recent book is Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parceri…
BLASPHEMY
by Martín Espada | Oct 21, 2019 | Poetry…ries featuring leading American poets who address issues of racism, human rights, and exile, among other social themes in their work. The project is curated by Cyrus Cassells, whose most recent book is Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Franc…
“Use Your White Voice:” On Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
by Cyrus Cassells | Aug 13, 2019 | Culture, Race…ere by the award-winning poet and critic Cyrus Cassells. The good news for movie fans is that Spike Lee’s rousing BlacKkKlansman, the winner of this year’s Oscar for Adapted Screenplay, is his most fluid and satisfying film “joint” since the era of Su…
Rapture and Outcry: On Barry Jenkins’s Stirring If Beale Street Could Talk
by Cyrus Cassells | May 21, 2019 | Culture…of-control bigotry and incarceration squarely, without illusion, and still votes for black love and family. Cyrus Cassells, a poet and professor of English at Texas State University, lives in Austin….
Living Room
by Patricia Spears Jones | May 20, 2019 | Poetry…in their work. The project is curated by Cyrus Cassells, whose most recent book is Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas (Stephen F. Austin University Press). “Living Room” is used by permission of Patricia Spears Jones and W…