Occupation Poet Name Thomas Lux | Role Poet | |
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Born December 10, 1946
Northampton, Massachusetts ( 1946-12-10 ) Education Emerson College (2003), Emerson College (1972–1970) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Influenced by Galway Kinnell, Hart Crane, James Wright, Federico Garcia Lorca Books Child Made of Sand: Poems, God Particles, The Cradle Place, The Street of Clocks, Split horizon Similar People Galway Kinnell, Jane Cooper, Hart Crane, James Wright, Federico Garcia Lorca | ||
Thomas lux poetry
Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program. He was the author of fourteen books of poetry.
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- Thomas lux poetry
- Render render a poem by thomas lux
- Early life and education
- Academic career
- Death
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Render render a poem by thomas lux
Early life and education
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.
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.
Academic career
Lux was a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught for twenty-seven years, from 1975 until 2001. He was 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. In 2003, Lux was awarded an honorary doctorate of Letters from Emerson College. His poems were featured in many notable anthologies, including American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) .
At the time of his death in February 2017, Lux was the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he began teaching in 2001. At Georgia Tech he ran their "Poetry at Tech" program, which included one of the best known poetry reading series in the country, along with community outreach classes and workshops.
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.
Death
Lux died at his home in Atlanta, Georgia on February 5, 2017. The cause of death was lung cancer. He is survived by his wife Jennifer Holley Lux and a daughter from a previous marriage, Claudia Lux.