An Interview with Cyrus Cassells

Published in Knockout #4, Spring 2012

Jeremy Halinen and Rickey Laurentiis

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyrus Cassells is the author of five books: The Mud Actor, a National Poetry Series winner and a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award; Soul Make a Path through Shouting, hailed as one of the Best Books of 1994 by Publishers Weekly, the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award, and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize for the outstanding poetry book of the year; Beautiful Signor, winner of both the Lambda Literary Award and the Sister Circle Book Award (for African-American literature) and a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award; More Than Peace and Cypresses, a Lannan Literary Selection, named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2004 by Library Journal; and The Crossed-Out Swastika, slated for 2012. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas, translated from the Catalan, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants.  He is a professor of English at Texas State University–San Marcos. You can purchase his books here: www.coppercanyonpress.org

 

An Interview with Charles Jensen

Published in Knockout #3, Spring 2010

Jeremy Halinen        

Charles Jensen is the author of The First Risk, which was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award, and the new/forthcoming The Nanopedia Quick Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture (MiPO Chapbook Series, 2012, http://mipoesias.com/). His previous chapbooks include Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon (New Michigan Press, 2007). A past recipient of an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, his poetry has appeared in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, The Journal, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and West Branch. He holds an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University, where he also did graduate work in nonprofit leadership and management. He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine LOCUSPOINT, which explores creative work on a city-by-city basis. He is active in the national arts community by serving on the Emerging Leader Council of Americans for the Arts.

An Interview with Denver Butson

Published in Knockout #2, Spring 2009

Jeremy Halinen and Brett Ortler               

 

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