Geronimo’s Books Second Anniversary Poetry Reading with Cyrus Cassells & Phil Geronimo

Name: Geronimo’s Books Second Anniversary Poetry Reading with Cyrus Cassells & Phil Geronimo
Start: 2025-09-13T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-09-13T17:00:00-06:00
Location: 3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, Santa Fe, NM

Schedule

Sat Sep 13 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, Santa Fe, NM | Santa Fe, NM

We’ve made to years and former Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells is helping us celebrate.
Cyrus Cassells, the 2021-2022 Poet Laureate of Texas, is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The World That the Shooter Left Us (Four Way Books: 2022), a Housatonic Book Award finalist, Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? (Four Way: 2024); Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022 (TCU Press: 2025), and Lorca to the Umpteenth Power (3: A Taos Press: 2026), a prose and poetry memoir rooted in Federico García Lorca’s Granada, featuring art by Octavio Quintanilla.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: 2023). Both volumes garnered the Texas Institute of Letters’ biennial Souerette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book. The Man with the Oar on His Shoulder: Poems of Francesc Parcerias (Stephen F. Austin: 2026) 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 NEA grants, 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. Phil Geronimo has been a bookseller in Santa Fe for over 12 years. His poetry is influenced by Arthur Sze, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, John Ashbery, Larry Levis and Jon Davis. He’s never been published.