Search Results for: "Cyrus Cassells"
On John Ridley’s American Crime and the #MeToo Movement
by Cyrus Cassells | Apr 17, 2018 | Culture, Media, Politics…we could use Ridley’s remarkable ensemble cast and his hypothetical fourth season focus now more than ever. Cyrus Cassells, a poet and professor of English at Texas State University, lives in Austin….
Acclaimed Black Cinema: On Moonlight, Fences, and Get Out
by Cyrus Cassells | Feb 5, 2018 | Culture, Media…e that riffs on themes of bigotry, usury, and micro-aggression, comes as brain-twisting, irreverent relief. Cyrus Cassells, a poet and professor of English at Texas State University, lives in Austin….
Black Literacy
by Cyrus Cassells | Jul 17, 2017 | Books, Media…ler review of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen appeared in the February 2015 edition of The Washington Spectator.) Cyrus Cassells, a poet and professor of English at Texas State University, lives in Austin….
A Celebration of Black Heart and Intellect
by Cyrus Cassells | Jun 15, 2015 | Books…flourishing bigotry and unbeatable hope. Cyrus Cassells is a poet, translator and professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. His most recent published collection of poetry is The Crossed-Out Swastika. This articles appears in the July 2…
Notes of a Native Daughter
by Cyrus Cassells | Feb 1, 2015 | Books…landscape of our racially-charged past and present in order to find language that clarifies our wounds and leaves us clear-eyed and forever changed. Cyrus Cassells is a poet, translator and professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. His…