In fewer than two dozen lines, Cyrus Cassells’s poem “Jasmine” offers readers a multisensory, cinematic immersion into late spring life in Rome. Not only is the “sweet, steady broadcast” of jasmine ever-present amid “the joyous braiding of sun and rain”, but there’s also Daria, a “crone-glorious” neighbor, with a story about her romance with the gallant Galliano. It’s la dolce vita, without overindulgence or artifice. We invite you to subscribe to <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack</a>, read the <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-padraig-o-tuama">Poetry Unbound books</a> and his newest work, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kitchen-hymns-p-draig-tuama/4f2a036b5d746205?aid=10066&ean=9781556597107&listref=books-by-padraig-o-tuama&next=t">Kitchen Hymns</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes</a>.  Cyrus Cassells, former poet laureate of Texas, is the author of 11 books of poetry, including <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/is-there-room-for-another-horse-on-your-horse-ranch-cyrus-cassells/b4a785c1f769b4b2?aid=10066&ean=9781954245808&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast&next=t">Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?</a> (2024), <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-world-that-the-shooter-left-us-cyrus-cassells/4c053305a0411f4e?aid=10066&ean=9781954245099&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast&next=t">The World That the Shooter Left Us</a> (2022), and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/more-than-watchmen-at-daybreak-cyrus-cassells/abc4ef06143d08d7?aid=10066&ean=9781732660076&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast&next=t">More Than Watchmen at Daybreak</a> (2020). Cassells’s honors include the 2025 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, an NAACP Image Award nomination, a National Poetry Series selection, two NEA grants, two Pushcart Prizes, 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.<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/cyrus-cassells-jasmine/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at <a href="http://onbeing.org">onbeing.org</a>. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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