CYRUS CASSELLS Reading | Q&A | Book Signing in San Marcos May 2, 2012 3:30 PM

FREE

Location: The Wittliff Collections / Alkek Library Contact: Michele Miller512.245.2313mm57@txstate.edu Description: The Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet and professor of English at Texas State channels life experiences-his own and those of others-into lyrical language that evokes empathy and compassion. His most recent book of poetry, The Crossed-Out Swastika, tells the stories of young people who lived through World War II in Europe. Cassells took the name of the book, to be released in late spring 2010 by Copper Canyon Press, from the story of Hans Scholl, a member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement who bravely crossed out swastikas on the walls of Munich under the cover of night. Cassells is the author of More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004); Beautiful Signor (1997), which won the Lambda Literary Award; Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (1994), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the William Carlos Williams Award; and The Mud Actor (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. Currently he teaches poetry at Texas State for the MFA in writing program. Cassell's books will be for sale by the University Bookstore.