Portrait of Mr. Cyrus Cassells III

Mr. Cyrus Cassells III

  • Regents' Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2026

  • Cassells, C. (n.d.). “The Shadow.” In Twenty Years of Poem of the Week.com. Lake Dallas, Texas, U. S.: Madville Publishers.
  • Cassells, C. (n.d.). Lorca to the Umpteenth Power. Taos, New Mexico, U.S.: 3: A Taos Press.

2025

  • Cassells, C. (Trans.). (n.d.). “Almost Dawn” (translation from the Spanish of Julia de Burgos). In I Am My Own Path: Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos. Austin, TX, U.S.: ‎ University of Texas Press. Retrieved from https://utpress.utexas.edu/
  • Cassells, C. (n.d.). Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022 (Vol. 19). Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America: Texas Christian University Press.
  • Cassells, C. (2025, January 6). “War Paint” and “The Holy-Moly Basement or Time to Stop Hiding.” Michigan Quarterly Review. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U. S.: University of Michigan.

2024

  • Cassells, C. (2024, October). “Castrabecco” and “Cesare’s Blues or Goodbye & Don’t Gossip Too Much.” Southern Indiana Review. Evansville, Indiana, U.S.: University of Southern Indiana. Retrieved from https://www.usi.edu/sir
  • Cassells, C. (2024, July). “Curator Introduction and Interview: A Celebration of Contemporary African American Poets: ‘We Are the Image of Pride Worth Imitating.’ New American Studies Journal: A Forum. Gottingen, Germany: University of Gottingen Press. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18422/75-1805
  • Cassells, C. (2024, July 22). “The Boy Persephone.” New American Studies Journal. Germany: Universitatsverlag Gottingen. https://doi.org/10.18422/75-1773
  • Cassells, C. (2024, July 22). Three poems from Lorca to the Umpteenth Power: “How Flamenco Undresses Granada,” “Jacinto Reveals The City of Hidden Water,” and “Santiago Teaching Me The History of Flamenco Guitar.” New American Studies Journal. Universitatsverlag Gottingen. https://doi.org/10.18422/75-1771
  • Cassells, C. (2024, July 22). “Italian Blues.” New American Studies Journal: A Forum. Gottingen, Germany: University of Gottingen Press. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18422/75-1772
  • Cassells, C. (2024, July 18). “Act of Gratitude.” The Slowdown. Minnesota, U. S.: Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved from https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024/07/18/1164-act-of-gratitude-by-cyrus-cassells
  • Cassells, C. (2024, June 17). Group Poem: “The Coroner is Also a Crooner: A Queer Exquisite Corpse.” The Los Angeles Review. Los Angeles, CA, U. S. Retrieved from https://losangelesreview.org/the-coroner-is-a-crooner-a-queer-exquisite-corpse-by-steven-cordova/
  • Cassells, C. (2024). “Wild Indigo, Because.” In The Gospel according to Wild Indigo.
  • Cassells, C. (2024, April 1). “Chiaroscuro Springtime” and “His Own Apollo.” Poetry. Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162295/chiaroscuro-spring-time
  • Cassells, C. (2024, April 1). “On Melvin Dixon: Vivacity and Witness.” Poetry. Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/162287/on-melvin-dixon-vivacity-and-witness
  • Cassells, C. (2024). Is There Room For Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? New York, NY, United States: Four Way Books. Retrieved from https://fourwaybooks.com/site/
  • Cassells, C. (2024). “Mirtiotissa!” In Essential Queer Voices of U. S. Poetry. Grinell, IA, United States: Green Linden Press. Retrieved from https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books
  • Cassells, C. (2024, January). “Lorca to the Umpteenth Power” and “The Winter We Slept Between Bantering Owls.” Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts. U. S.
  • Cassells, C. (2024, January 25). “Siege of White.” The Adroit Journal. online, U. S. Retrieved from https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-eight/cyrus-cassells/

2023

  • Cassells, C. (2023, December 28). “Horsemen Watching Two Ancient Cities Burn.” The Common. United States. Retrieved from https://www.thecommononline.org/december-2023-poetry-feature-part-ii/
  • To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu. Under a Warm Green Linden. Issue 17. Green Linden Press. December 21, 2023.
    • Reviewed by: C. W. Emerson.
  • Cassells, C. (2023). Foreword. In Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being―and Sang Back to Them Ever After (pp. ix–x). U. S.: Penn State University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271096308-001
  • Cassells, C. (2023, November 29). “Corsair.” Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. New York, NY, U.S.: Academy of American Poets. Retrieved from https://poets.org/poem/corsair
  • Cassells, C. (2023). “Forward” for Blackbird. In Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being--and Sang Back to Them Ever After. University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.: Penn State University Press. Retrieved from https://www.psupress.org/
  • Cassells, C. (2023, September). “Man Exiting a Mighty Fortress.” Passengers Journal. Truro, Massachusetts, U. S. Retrieved from https://www.passengersjournal.com/volume-4-issue-3-poetry/#cassells
  • To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu. Tupelo Quarterly: "An alphabet of cypresses and light: Tiffany Troy on To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu by Cyrus Cassells". 30. Vol. VI. Tupelo Quarterly. International. July 2023.
    • Reviewed by: Tiffany Troy.
  • Cassells, C. (n.d.). “Fish Caught in His Meshes.” Salmagundi. Saratoga Springs, NY, United States: Skidmore College.
  • To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu. Rhino Magazine. Illinois. May 2023.
    • Reviewed by: Colin Pope.
  • Cassells, C. (2023, May 27). “Theater of Swans and Mysteries.” Matter. Retrieved from https://mattermonthly.com/2023/05/27/theater-of-swans-and-mysteries/
  • Cassells, C. (2023, May 27). “It’s Your Favorite Foreign Movie.” Matter. Retrieved from https://mattermonthly.com/2023/05/27/its-your-favorite-foreign-movie/
  • To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espiru. The Cultural Daily. International. April 26, 2023.
    • (Invited) Reviewed by: Jordan Smith.
  • Cassells, C. (2023, March). “Song of Triumphant Night” and “After the Trees.” Passengers Journal. Truro, Massachusetts, U. S. Retrieved from https://www.passengersjournal.com/volume-4-issue-1-poetry/#cassells
  • Roar and Prayer: American Elegies: The World That the Shooter Left Us by Cyrus Cassells and Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking by C.T. Salazar. Salamander Magazine. Fall Winter, 2022-23. Vol. 55. 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108: Suffolk University Department of English. International. February 2023.
    • Reviewed by: Patrick Davis.
  • Cassells, C. (2023). “Sung from a Hospice.” In A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry (p. 73). Port Townsend, WA, U. S.: Copper Canyon Press.

2022

  • Cassells, C. (2022). The World That The Shooter Left Us. New York, NY, United States: Four Way Books. Retrieved from https://fourwaybooks.com/site/
  • Cassells, C. (2022). “A Siren Patch of Indigo.” In American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide (pp. 162–163). New York, NY, United States: Harry N. Abrams.
  • The World That the Shooter Left Us. "Changing A Language To Write in This Our Now": On Cyrus Cassells's The World That the Shooter Left Us by Debra Kang Dean. Issue Four. Vol. Fall 2022. Louisville, KY: The Good River Review. International. October 2022.
    • (Peer) Reviewed by: Debra Kang Dean.
  • Cassells, C. (2022, October 15). “Queen Isabella Encounters a Moorish Song.” Agni. Boston, MA, United States: Boston University.
  • Cassells, C. (2022, August 25). “The ‘Land Ho’ Kiss.” The Harvard Review (Online). Cambridge, MA, United States: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from https://harvardreview.org/content/the-land-ho-kiss/
  • Cassells, C. (2022, August 22). “Conversation in the Ruined Temple of Hera.” Poetry Northwest (Online Version). United States. Retrieved from https://www.poetrynw.org/cyrus-cassells-conversation-in-the-ruined-temple-of-hera/
  • The World That the Shooter Left Us. Passengers Journal. Truro, Massachusetts: Andreea Ceplischi. National. July 10, 2022.
    • (Peer) Reviewed by: Dylis Wyndham Thomas.
  • "Channeling the Chaos": Cyrus Cassells's The World That The Shooter Left Us. Sightlines. Online: Sightlines magazine. National. May 16, 2022.
    • (Peer) Reviewed by: Dorothy Meiberg Weller.
  • Cassells, C. (2022). “The Hummingbird.” In Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (p. 60). Pittsburgh, PA, United States: Autumn House Press.
  • Cassells, C. (2022, April). “Finding America in Goya’s Black Paintings.” The Cortland Review. US. Retrieved from https://www.cortlandreview.com/issue-89/cyrus-cassells/
  • When the World Can’t Save Us Book Review of LGBTQ poet Cyrus Cassells's latest book, "The World That the Shooter Left Us" by Marc Frazier. The Good Men Project. The Good Men Project. National. April 26, 2022.
    • (Peer) Reviewed by: Marc Frazier.
  • The World That The Shooter Left Us. On the Seawall. Online: Ron Slate. International. April 12, 2022.
    • (Peer) Reviewed by: Linda Scheller.
  • The World That the Shooter Left Us. Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine online. Online: Poetry Foundation, Harriet Books. International. February 15, 2022.
    • (Peer) Reviewed by: David Woo.

2021

  • Cassells, C. (2021). Novel excerpt: “Doctor King’s Queens.” In My Gingerbread Shakespeare (Special African American Issue edited by Charles Johnson, Vol. 33, pp. 38–46). Evanston, Illinois, US.
  • Cassells, C. (2021, March). “How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?” Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. New York, NY, US: Academy of American Poets.
  • Cassells, C. C. (2021, September). “Cassells on Cassells.” The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas. Stephenville, TX, U. S.: Tartleton University Press. Retrieved from https://www.tarleton.edu/langdonreview/index.html
  • Interview with Cyrus Cassells. The Hole in the Head Review. issue 3: 8.01. 21. Vol. 2. Texas. Regional. August 1, 2021.
    • Reviewed by: Michael Hettich.
  • Critical Essay on my Poetry: BENEDICTUS QUI VENIT IN NOMINE DOMINI… AND THE BODY By Roger Reeves, PhD:. The Fight and the Fiddle. 1 (Special feature on Cyrus Cassells). Vol. 5. Harrisburg, VA: James Madison University. July 30, 2021.
    • Reviewed by: Roger Reeves.
  • Cassells, C. (2021, May). Four Poems: “Dosage,”" “Everyone Here Speaks Poppycock,” “The Know Nothings (People Say A Lot When They Want the Job),” and “PTSD (Your Multiple Episodes).” Chicago Quarterly Review. Evanston, Illinois, US. Retrieved from www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com

2020

  • Cassells, C. (2020). More Than Watchmen at Daybreak. Syracuse, NY, US: Nine Mile Art Corporation.
  • Cassells, C. (2020). “On Daniel Duford’s Abolitionists in a Flood.” In Daniel Duford: John Brown’s Vision on the Scaffold (pp. 8–11). Portland, Oregon, US: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland University.
  • Cassells, C. (2020, August 17). “Martin Getsemany, I See You.” Poetry Northwest. Oregon, US. Retrieved from https://www.poetrynw.org/cyrus-cassells-martin-getsemany/
  • More Than Watchmen at Daybreak. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability. Vol. Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2020. National. June 2020.
    • Reviewed by: Diane Wiener.
  • Cassells, C. (2020, June 19). Long poem: “Tango With a Ghost.” Poetry Northwest. Oregon, U. S.
  • Cassells, C. (2020, June 10). “Like Christ Overturning the Moneylenders’ Tables.” On the Seawall. US: Ron Slate (https://www.ronslate.com). Retrieved from https://www.ronslate.com/like-christ-overturning-the-moneylenders-tables/
  • Cassells, C. (2020, June 4). Three Poems: “Sin Eater, Beware,”"My Black Friend," and “Sestina for Booker T. Washington.” The Nervous Breakdown. US: https://thenervousbreakdown.com/.
  • Cassells, C. (2020, April). “Quid Pro Quo (Two Baritones on a Phone).” The Southampton Review. New York, US. Retrieved from https://www.thesouthamptonreview.com/current-issue
  • Cassells, C. (2020, April 21). “The Only Way to Fight the Plague is Decency (An American Elegy).” On the Seawall. US: Ron Slate (https://www.ronslate.com/). Retrieved from https://www.ronslate.com/the-only-way-to-fight-the-plague-is-decency/
  • Cassells, C. (2020, March). “How Jacinto Becomes The Sea.” Green Mountains Review. Johnson, VT, United States: Northern Vermont University. Retrieved from https://greenmountainsreview.com/
  • Cassells, C. (2020, March). Four poems: “The Bamboo Labyrinth,” “Blood Rushing to a Knight’s Head,”  “Verse In Which The Poet’s Lover Carves HIm into A Sicilian Puppet,” and “The  Wrestlers (Caramelo and Guapo Gringo).” Nine Mile Review. Lafayette, NY, United States: Nine Mile Books. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/bobherz/docs/spring_2020_review
  • More Than Watchmen at Daybreak. Psaltery and Lyre. March 13, 2020.
    • Reviewed by: Jory Mickelson.
  • Cassells, C. (2020, February). Two Poems: “Like A Bird of a More Winged World” and “Fado for Xavier, The Move-Along Man.” The Cortland Review. Cortland, NY, United States.
  • Cassells, C. (2020, February). Three Poems: “The New Bathroom Policy in North Carolina,” “Obliterate Asylum!” and “Requiem For Óscar and Valeria”  plus a featured interview. Borderlands: A Texas Review. Retrieved from https://www.borderlands.org/cyrus-cassells
  • Cassells, C. (2020, February 23). Three Poems: "Harum-Scarum Photo Op,” “The Hood,” and “Senator, Where Is Your Voodoo Doll, Your Snare?” On the Sewall. Us: Ron Slate. Retrieved from ttps://www.ronslate.com/harum-scarum-photo-op-the-hood-and-senator-where-is-your-voodoo-doll-your-snare/
  • Cassells, C. (2020, February 12). Eight Poems: A Chapbook of Border Crisis Poems: “Courage Song for Scott Warren,” “Flu Boy Floating Motionless in a Pool,” “To The Gladiator in the Rogue Arena, ‘ Icebox,’ ‘The Pharaoh Tried Brutality Before,’ ‘The RETURN TO SENDERS Children,’ ‘The Smithsonian Considers Purchasing the Art of Formerly Detained Children,’ and ‘A Toddler’s Day in Court (Kafkaesque).’” Poetry International. San Diegom CA, United States: University of California- San Diego. Retrieved from ttps://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/cyrus-cassells-a-chapbook-of-border-crisis-poems/

2019

  • Cassells, C. (2019, December 30). “Altitude.” Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. New York, NY, United States: Academy of American Poets. Retrieved from https://poets.org/poem/altitude-0
  • Cassells, C. C. (Trans.). (2019). Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas. Nacogdoches, Texas, United States: Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Retrieved from www.sfasu.edu/sfapress/
  • Cassells, C. (2019, December). “I Met A Gladiator (Ben-Him).” Prairie Schooner. Lincoln, Nebraska, United States: University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved from https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/current-issue
  • “Rummaging for Gold: The Gospel according to Wild Indigo by Cyrus Cassells” [Review of The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, by C. Cassells]. (2019, December). The Kenyon Review. Gambier, Ohio, United States: Kenyon College. Retrieved from https://kenyonreview.org/reviews/the-gospel-according-to-wild-indigo
  • Cassells, C. (Trans.). (2019, October). “Song of Twilight” by Salvador Espriu. The Arkansas International. Fayetteville, Arkansas, US: University of Arkansas. Retrieved from https://www.arkint.org/issue-seven
  • Cassells, C. C. (2019). Anthology Poem: “The World That The Shooter Left Us.” In What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (pp. 26–27). Evanston, Illinois, United States: Northwestern University Press. Retrieved from www.nupress.northwestern.edu/
  • Cassells, C. (2019, August 23). “More Than Watchmen at Daybreak.” Poetry Daily. Fairfax, VA, United States: George Mason University. Retrieved from https://poems.com/poem/more-than-watchmen-at-daybreak/
  • Cassells, C. (2019, August 13). “Use Your White Voice”: On Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. The Washington Spectator. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/blackkklansman-cassells/
  • Cassells, C. (2019, May 21). Rapture and Outcry: On Barry Jenkins’s Stirring If Beale Street Could Talk. THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/cassells-beale-street/
  • Cassells, C. (2019, April). Two Poems: “Spring Comes To The City of Lisbon” and “More Than Watchmen At Daybreak.” Agni. Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Boston University. Retrieved from https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/the-journal/archive/agni-89
  • Cassells, C. C. (2019, March). “The Memorial Bouquet.” The Harvard Review. Cambridge, Massahusetts, United States: Harvard University.
  • Cassells, C. C. (2019, March). “Oh The Snow is a Blinding Sight To See.” Green Mountains Review. Johnson, Vermont, United States: Ingram Periodicals.
  • Cassells, C. C. (Trans.). (2019, March 27). Three Poems by Salvador Espriu: “Book of the Dead,” “Tree,” and “The Garden of Five Trees.” NECK. TEXAS: Ryan Paradiso.
  • Cassells, C. C. (Trans.). (2019, March 14). Sinera Cemetery: A Long Poem in Thirty Parts. Nine Mile. Syracuse, New York, United States: Nine Mile Art Corporation.
  • Cassells, C. C. (2019, March 14). Six Poems: “Winter Abbey with Venus Rising,” “Accepting the Peace of Saint Francis Hermitage,” “A Monk’s Textbook of Shadows,” “Monastic Silence,” “Celestial Prayers,” and “Diary of a Pentecost Sunday.” Nine Mile. Syracuse, New York, United States: Nine Mile Art Corporation. Retrieved from http://www.ninemile.org
  • Cassells, C. C. (Trans.). (2019, February). Two Poems of Francesc Parcerisas: “Snowy Cemetery” and “To Keep Watch Over Our Language.” The Cortland Review. Cortland, New York, US. Retrieved from http://www.cortlandreview.com
  • Cassells, C. (2019, February). “Francesc Parcerisas and Embattled Catalonia.” The Cortland Review. Cortland, NY, US. Retrieved from https://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/82/cassells_e.php#1
  • Cassells, C. (2019, February). “A Troubador in Girona.” Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art. Taos, NM, United States: Veronica Golos. Retrieved from http://www.taosjournalofpoetry.com/a-troubadour-in-girona/
  • Cassells, C. (Trans.). (2019, February). “Terra Negra/Black Land” by Salvador Espriu. Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art. Taos, NM, United States: Veronica Golos.
  • Cassells, C. (2019, February 2). “Lovers Borrowing The Language of Cicadas.” Poetry Daily. Farifax, VA: Goerge Mason University. Retrieved from https://poems.com/poem/lovers-borrowing-the-language-of-cicadas/
  • Cassells, C. C. (2019, January 15). Three Poems: “Messengers of the Desert Air,” “Cool and Living Like a March Branch,” and “Mary’s Day.” The Southampton Review. Southampton, New York, United States. Retrieved from https://www.thesouthamptonreview.com/
  • Cassells, C. (2019, January 15). On Bradley Cooper’s  Surprising A Star Is Born. The Washington Spectator. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/cassells-a-star-is-born/

2018

  • Cassells, C. (2018). The Gospel according to Wild Indigo: Poems. Carbondale, Illinois, U. S.: Southern Illinois University Press.
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018, December 21). A PORTFOLIO OF POEMS BY CYRUS CASSELLS: “The Spirits of Slave Catchers Are Still Walking Among Us,” “Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow),” “Caesars and Dreamers,” “The White Iris Beautifies Me,” “Three Kings,” and “The Giveaway Trains.” Poetry International Online (Poetryinternationalonline.Com/Category/Columns/), December 21, 2018. San Diego, California, United States: Poetry International (San Diego State Unversity). Retrieved from poetryinternationalonline.com/category/columns/ and https://pionline.wordpress.com
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018, December 21). Chapbook: Poems of Francesc Parcerisas, translated by Cyrus Cassells: “The Egyptian Room,” “Shave,” “December Orange,” “After Anne Sexton,” “Severed Hand,” “Calypso,” and “Virgil’s Hand.” Poetry International Online (Poetryinternationalonline.Com/Category/Columns/), December 21, 2018. San Diego, California, United States: Poetry International (San Diego State Unversity). Retrieved from poetryinternationalonline.com/category/columns/ and https://pionline.wordpress.com
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018). Demonic Glamor: On The Assassination of Gianni Versace ( https://washingtonspectator.org/cassells-demonicglamour/). The Washington Spectator (December 12, 2018, Vol. Online). New York, NY, United States. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/cassells-demonicglamour/
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018). New Handmaid’s Tale Season Is At Once Darker and Closer to Reality ( https://washingtonspectator.org/new-handmaids-tale-season-is-at-once-darker-and-closer-to-reality/). The Washington Spectator (November 19, 2018, Vol. Online). New York, NY, United States. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/new-handmaids-tale-season-is-at-once-darker-and-closer-to-reality/
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018, November 1). “You Be The Dancer” www.cortlandreview.com/issue/81/cassells.php. The Cortland Review. Cortland, New York, United States.
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018, October 30). “The World That The Shooter Left Us” (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/world-shooter-left-us). Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. New York, NY, United States: Academy of American Poets. Retrieved from https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/world-shooter-left-us
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018). Renegade Charisma: Sebastián Lelio’s Fantastic Woman and Disobedience  (https://washingtonspectator.org/renegade-charisma-sebastian-lelios-fantastic-woman-and-disobedience/). The Washington Spectator (October 2, 2018, Vol. Online). New York, NY, United States. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/renegade-charisma-sebastian-lelios-fantastic-woman-and-disobedience/
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018). Guadagnino and Ivory Stir Passions and Create Pure Relationship Magic (https://washingtonspectator.org/guadagnino-and-ivory-stir-passions-and-create-pure-relationship-magic/). The Washington Spectator (June 9, 2018, Vol. Online). New York, NY, United States. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/guadagnino-and-ivory-stir-passions-and-create-pure-relationship-magic/
  • Cassells, C. C. (2018). On John Ridley’s American Crime and the #MeToo Movement (https://washingtonspectator.org/on-john-ridleys-american-crime-and-the-metoo-movement/). The Washington Spectator (April 17, 2018, Vol. Online). New York, NY, United States. Retrieved from https://washingtonspectator.org/on-john-ridleys-american-crime-and-the-metoo-movement/
  • Cassells, C. (2018, March). “Two Poets Quarreling under the Jacarandas.” Nine Mile. U. S.
  • Cassells, C. (Trans.). (2018, March). “Taxidermist,” translation from the Catalan of Francesc Parcerisas. Nine Mile. U. S.
  • Cassells, C. (Trans.). (2018, March). “Mud Pies,” translation from the Catalan of Francesc Parcerisas. Nine Mile. U. S.
  • Cassells, C. (Trans.). (2018, March). “Vienna, Christmas, 1939,” translation from the Catalan of Francesc Parcerisas. Nine Mile. U. S.
  • Cassells, C. (2018, March). “Here, Sir Fire!” Nine Mile.
  • Cassells, C. (2018). “Acclaimed Black Cinema: On Moonlight, Fences, and Get Out.” The Washington Spectator (February 2018). Washington D.C., U. S.

2017

  • Cassells, C. (2017, October). “Sibyl,” a translation from the Catalan of Francesc Parcerisas. The Enchanting Verses Literary Review.
  • Cassells, C. (2017, October). “Harlem Noel.” Opossum. San Marcos, Texas, U. S. Retrieved from opossumlit.com
  • Cassells, C. (2017, October). “Maceo Reveals His Insufficient Sweetie.” Opossum. San Marcos, Texas, U. S. Retrieved from opossumlit.com
  • Cassells, C. (2017, October). “Looking for a Do-Right Child.” Opossum. San Marcos, Texas, U. S. Retrieved from opossumlit.com
  • Cassells, C. (2017). “A Conversation with Cyrus Cassells on My Gingerbread Shakespeare.” Opossum (pp. 18–21). San Marcos, Texas, U. S.
  • Cassells, C. (2017). “Act of Gratitude” translation from the Catalan of Francesc Parcerisas. In : In the Shape of a Human Body, I am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide. U. S.: McSweeney’s.
  • Cassells, C. (2017). “Elegy With a Gold Cradle.” In The Best American Poetry 2017 (pp. 20–21). U. S.: Scribners.
  • Cassells, C. (2017, July). “Black Literacy: Four Notable Books.” The washington Spectator. Washington D.C., U. S.
  • Riders on the Back of Silence. 2017.
  • Cassells, C. (2017, April). “Pentimento.” Arts and Letters: A Journal of Contemporary Culture. Milledgeville, Georgia, U. S.: Georgia College. Retrieved from artsandletters.gcsu.edu
  • Cassells, C. (2017, April). "If Van Gogh Didn’t Shoot Himself, Who Did Shoot Him? The Harvard Review (50th Anniversary Issue). Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.: Harvard University.
  • Cassells, C. (2017, April). “Massimo and Silver” and “Full Moon over Ischia.” Nine Mile.
  • Cassells, C. (2017). “A Siren Patch of Indigo.” In Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Responding to the Art of Romare Bearden (pp. 8–9). Chicago, Illinois, U. S.: Triquarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press.
  • Cassells, C. (2017). “2017 Poetry Month : An Interview with Cyrus Cassells.” The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../2017-poetry-month-an-interview-with-cyrus-casse... Apr 1, 2017 - Cyrus Cassells is the author of The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Sho

2016

  • Cassells, C. (2016, June). “Spring and the Spirit of Saint Joan.” AMP. Hempstead, New York, U.S.: Hofstra University. Retrieved from http://amp.hofstradrc.org/issues/1-1/spring-and-the-spirit-of-saint-joan
  • Cassells, C. (n.d.). “Elegy with a Gold Cradle.” Agni. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.: Agni, Boston University.
  • Cassells, C. (2016, April). Three Poems: “Jasmine,” “Lazaretto,” and “Lovers Borrowing the Language of Cicadas.” Nine Mile Magazine. Syracuse, New York, U.S.: Nine Mile Art Corporation.
  • Cassells, C. (2016, April). “Elegy with a Gold Cradle.” Agni Magazine. Boston, Masachusetts, U.S.: Boston University.
  • Cassells, C. (n.d.). Two Poems: “The Low Country Magazine” and “A Gullah Valentine (Nearabout Spring).” The Delaware Poetry Review. Delaware: The Cape Gazette. Retrieved from http://www.depoetry.com/poets/201601/04_cyrus_cassells.html)

2015

  • Cassells, C. (2015, December 15). “Deacon Costen’s Handclap Joy.” The Good Men Project. The Good Men Project. Retrieved from goodmenproject.com o Featured Content
  • Cassells, C. (2015, October 15). Praise House. African American Review. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Cassells, C. (2015). Cyrus Cassells/Francesc Parcerisas: English translations of eight poems by Francesc Parcerisas: Cellar, Clear Night, The Emperor Hadrian Ponders the Golden Age, Imagining My Son Fifty Years from Now in this Eatery, etc. JOLT, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, Trinity College of Dublin, Ireland (15th-Oct-15th ed., Vol. Cyrus Cassells Special Edition: Special issue devoted solely to my Catalan translations, pp. 20-Jan). Dublin, Ireland: Trinity College, Dublin. Retrieved from http://trinityjolt.com/index.php/2015/jolt-cyrus-cassells-special-edition-2015-3/
  • Cassells, C. (2015, September 15). Translations of two poems by Francesc Parcerisas:  "Matchbox "and “The Sin-Eater.” The Literati Quarterly. San Marcos, Texas. Retrieved from issuu.com/literatiquarterly
  • Cassells, C. (2015, April 15). “Ethos.” The Literati Quarterly. San Marcos, Texas: The Literate Quarterly: an online journal. Retrieved from issuu.com/literatiquarterly/docs/spring_2015_issue_ce1643f46e44c2
  • Cassells, C. (2015, April 15). “Necropolis.” The Cortland Review. Cortland, New York: The Cortland Review. Retrieved from www.cortlandreview.com/features/15/spring/cassells.php
  • Cassells, C. (2015, April 15). Guernica’s Old Survivors. The Literati Quarterly. San Marcos, Texas: The Literati Quarterly. Retrieved from issuu.com/literatiquarterly/docs/spring_2015_issue_ce1643f46e44c2
  • Cassells, C. (2015, April 15). In Robert Graves’ Mallorcan Garden". The Literati Quarterly. San Marcos, TX: The Literati Quarterly. Retrieved from issuu.com/literatiquarterly/docs/spring_2015_issue_ce1643f46e44c2
  • Cassells, C. (2015, April 15). Two Poems: “The Pines of the Villa Pamphili” and “Federico’s Querencia.” Agni. Boston, Massachusetts: Agni, Boston University.
  • Cassells, C. (2015, January). Soul Make a Path Through Shouting. New Labor Forum. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796014566401

2001

  • Cassells, C. (2001). Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson. Callaloo, 24(3), 707–710. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2001.0118