Skip to main content Mr. Cyrus Cassells III
- Regents' Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts
Awards
2024
- Award / Honor Recipient:
Souerette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2022 and 2023 for To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu, Texas Institute of Letters. March 2024 - May 4, 2024
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Best Spiritual Literature Anthology nomination for "Siege of White", Orison Press. November 5, 2024 - Present
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Puschart Prize Nomination for "Lorca to the Umpteenth Power", Pushcart Press. October 2024 - Present
2023
- Award / Honor Nominee:
Pushcart Prize, Passengers Journal. November 2023
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Housatonic Book Award in Poetry, Western Connecticut State University's MFA in Creative and Professional Writing. June 2023 - November 2023
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Regents' Professor Award, Texas State University Board of Regents. April 2023 - August 2023
2022
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University Distinguished Professor, Texas State University. November 2022 - March 2023
2021
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2021 Golden Apple Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. March 2021 - June 2021
2020
- Award / Honor Recipient:
2021 Presidential Excellence Award, Texas State University. December 2020 - June 2021
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2021 Texas State Artist-Poet Laureate, http://www.arts.texas.gov/initiatives/texas-state-artist/. December 2020 - May 18, 2021
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Induction into the Texas Institute of Letters, Texas Institute of Letters. January 2020 - Present
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Excellence in Creative and Scholarly Research Award, Liberal Arts College--Texas State University. August 2020
2019
- Award / Honor Recipient:
Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018-2019 for Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas, Texas Institute of Letters. December 2019 - March 2020
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Pulitzer Prize Committee. January 2019 - April 2019
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Best of the Net Anthology, Best of the Net. September 2019 - February 2020
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Antelope Valley High School Hall of Fame induction, Antelope Valley High School, Lancaster, California. August 2019 - September 27, 2019
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2019 National Poetry Series, National Poetry Series. June 2019 - August 2019
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Excellence in Creative Writing and Criticism Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. April 2019 - May 2019
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2018 Balcones Prize for Outsanding Book of the Year, Austin Community College. January 2019 - May 2019
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Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry, Texas Institute of Letters. March 2019
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NAACP Image Award, NAACP. February 14, 2019 - March 2019
2017
- Award / Honor Recipient:
Favorite Professor Award, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. November 2017
2014
- Award / Honor Nominee:
Poet Laureate of Texas, Texas State Legislature. December 1, 2014 - May 1, 2015
2013
- Award / Honor Nominee:
Balcones Poetry Prize for Best Book of 2012, Austin Community College. May 2013
