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Thomas Lux
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American

Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program.[1][2] He wrote fourteen books of poetry.[3]

Early life and education

Thomas Lux was born in

Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm.[4]

Lux graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he was also poet in residence from 1970–1975. His first book—Memory's Handgrenade—was published shortly after.[4]

Academic career

Lux was a member of the writing faculty at

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his sixth collection, Split Horizons.[5] In 2003, Lux was awarded an honorary doctorate of Letters from Emerson College.[3] His poems were featured in many notable anthologies, including American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006). In 2012, Lux received the Robert Creeley Award.[6]

At the time of his death in February 2017, Lux was the Margaret T. and

Georgia Institute of Technology where he began teaching in 2001.[4] At Georgia Tech he ran their "Poetry at Tech" program,[1] which included one of the best known poetry reading series in the country, along with community outreach classes and workshops.[7]

Before his death, Lux edited (and wrote the Introduction to) Bill Knott's posthumous publication I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems 1960–2014 which appeared in February 2017.[3][5]

Death

Lux died of lung cancer at his home in Atlanta, Georgia on February 5, 2017, survived by his wife Jennifer Holley Lux and a daughter from a previous marriage, Claudia Lux.[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Memory's handgrenade. Cambridge, Mass.: Pym-Randall. 1972.
  • The glassblower's breath. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 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)
  • Child Made of Sand (2012)
  • Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2014)
    ISBN 978-1-78037-115-3
  • To the Left of Time, Ecco, 2016
Chapbooks
  • The Land Sighted (chapbook, 1970)
  • Madrigal on the Way Home (chapbook, 1976)
  • Like a Wide Anvil from the Moon the Light (chapbook, 1980)
  • Massachusetts (chapbook, 1981)
  • Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy (chapbook, 1983)
  • A Boat in the Forest (chapbook, 1992)
  • Pecked to Death by Swans (chapbook, 1993)
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Cow chases boys 2015 Lux, Thomas (March 23, 2015). "Cow chases boys". The New Yorker. 91 (5): 46.
Refrigerator, 1957 2021 Lux, Thomas (September 6, 2021). "Refrigerator, 1957". The New Yorker. 97 (27): 54–55.

References

  1. ^ a b "The Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry: Thomas Lux". Poetry at Tech. Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
  2. ^ "Thomas Lux". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-22. Retrieved 2018-03-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e "Thomas Lux – Poetry @ Tech". Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Emerson, Bo (February 6, 2017). "Noted Georgia Poet Thomas Lux dies". Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  5. ^ a b c Grimes, William (22 February 2017). "Thomas Lux, Poet Who Wrote of Life's Absurdities, Dies at 70" – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ^ "Robert Creeley Foundation  » Award – Robert Creeley Award". robertcreeleyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  7. ^ Lux describes the genesis and development of the program in "The Poem Is a Bridge: Poetry@Tech," in: Humanistic Perspectives in a Technological World, ed. Richard Utz, Valerie B. Johnson, and Travis Denton (Atlanta: School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014), pp. 72–5.

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