Cyrus Cassells
@CyrusCc37
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2021-22 Texas Poet Laureate, Translator, Regents' Professor, and Actor. The World That the Shooter Left Us (Four Way: 2022), Housatonic Book Award finalist.
Joined December 2021
On this day in 1972, ‘CABARET’ released in theaters. Liza Minnelli went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her iconic performance as Sally Bowles.
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It's crazy how fast the media got over the leading Republican candidate losing $83M to the woman he raped.
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*stares DIRECTLY into the camera as a Black American*
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Today's Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Language as Form, @seminewblack writes on "women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?)." Read here: https://t.co/lwSYpUeNoy
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Another generative bit of language emerged (and reproduced itself at different moments in the poem) when I found myself looking for a phrase to indicate the numerical “opposite” of one vote (“a flock...
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Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old whose harrowing call with emergency dispatchers was heard around the world as the terrified child begged for someone to come get her, was found dead on Saturday. Rescue workers appear to have been killed by Israeli fire just yards away from her vehicle.
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Re-read @CharifShan’s Trace Evidence. His poems don’t end at their final words. They keep going in my body, brain. Who “belongs”? And if so, to what?
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“The destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza impoverishes the collective identity of the Palestinian people, irrevocably denies them their history, and violates their sovereignty.” https://t.co/mVQWoMzMNZ
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Librarians and Archivists with Palestine—a network of information workers in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination—yesterday released a report detailing the archives, libr…
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Trump inviting Russia to attack NATO allies should be one of the biggest stories of this election. The fact that it's not even on the front page of the NYT or Washington Post (while stories about Biden's age are) is a disgrace to journalism.
Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
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Happy Birthday Madame Leontyne Price, 97 years young! Where is this icon's long overdue documentary?!
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If you combine Wizard of Oz and Jonathan Bailey, you can bet I’m going to be seated.
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We had 15 presidential debates in the last election, and not one time did they have a 30-minute conversation on how presidential candidates would address poverty and low wages. Poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in this country. It is a moral and political issue.
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This is one of the best explanations I’ve seen online about the ongoing conflict in Congo, please have a watch.
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Here is a lovely picture of the young Roland Barthes. I call it "The Pleasure of the Twink."
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LIVE: Congress is about to send $14 billion in military aid to Netanyahu’s right-wing government, as he starves thousands of Palestinian children and is threatening a ground invasion of Rafah. This is UNACCEPTABLE.
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@muhammadshehad2 The IDF was told that an ambulance was on it's way to get her. They found the ambulance with the two paramedics dead. The ambulance had been bombed. Hind could have been rescued, the IDF prevented it. Sickening🤮@CIJ_ICJ @IntlCrimCourt When is the world going to act?
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