Please join Poets & Writers for an evening of poetry and conversation

featuring
CYRUS CASSELLS
winner of the 2025 Jackson Poetry Prize

in conversation with
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 | 7PM EDT
THE GREENE SPACE, NEW YORK CITY

This event will also be livestreamed.

Tickets required. Register here.

About the Poets:

CYRUS CASSELLS, the 2021–2022 Poet Laureate of Texas, is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982–2022 (TCU Press, 2025); Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? (Four Way Books, 2024), named a Best New Poetry Book by the New York Public Library; The World That the Shooter Left Us (Four Way Books, 2022), a Housatonic Book Award finalist; and Lorca to the Umpteenth Power, a prose and poetry memoir rooted in Federico García Lorca’s Granada and featuring art by Octavio Quintanilla, forthcoming in 2026 from 3: A Taos Press.

Cassells is the translator from Catalan of Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2019), and To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2023). Both volumes garnered the Texas Institute of Letters’ biennial Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book. Cassells’s translation of The Man with the Oar on His Shoulder: Poems of Francesc Parcerisas (forthcoming in 2026 from Stephen F. Austin State University Press) recently received, in manuscript, Honorable Mention for the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation.

Cassells’s honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, an NAACP Image Award nomination, the National Poetry Series, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. He is a Regents’ and University Distinguished Professor of English at Texas State University.

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA is a poet with interests in conflict, language and religion. He presents Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios, and has published two anthologies (2022, 2025, both with WW Norton) from that podcast. In early 2025 Copper Canyon Press published Kitchen Hymns, his fourth poetry collection. A freelance artist, one of Ó Tuama’s projects is poet in residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University. He splits his time between Belfast and New York City.