Thomas Lux

Infobox Writer


imagesize = 150px
name = Thomas Lux
birthdate = birth date and age|1946|12|10
birthplace = Northampton, Massachusetts
occupation = Poet
influences = Hart Crane, Theodore Roethke, Federico García Lorca, Stephen Dobyns, James Wright, Galway Kinnell, Gerald Stern, Bill Knott, James Tate

Thomas Lux (born December 10, 1946) is an American poet.

Biography

Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. A bookish only child, he spent his after-school hours in the town library.

He graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he was also poet in residence from 1972-1975. His first book — "Memory's Handgrenade" — was published shortly after. Since 1975, Lux has been a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Lux is also a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Irvine. A former Guggenheim Fellow and three times a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lux received, in 1995, the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his sixth collection, "Split Horizons". His poems are featured in "American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets" (2006) and many other anthologies.

He currently holds the Bourne chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and runs their Poetry at Tech program.

Bibliography

* "Memory's Handgrenade" (1972)
* "The Glassblower's Breath" (1976)
* "Sunday" (1979)
* "Half Promised Land" (1986)
* "The Drowned River" (1990)
* "Split Horizon" (1994)
* "The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems, 1970-1975" (1996)
* "New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995" (1997)
* "The Street of Clocks" (2001)
* "The Cradle Place" (2004)
* "God Particles" (2008)

External links

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/115 Academy of American Poets profile]
* [http://plagiarist.com/poetry/poets/35/ A few poems by Thomas Lux]
* [http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/8/lux8i.htm Online interview with Lux]
* [http://www.poetry.gatech.edu/index.php Poetry at Tech]