Thomas Lux



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

Life
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. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball, basketball and golf. Classmates also recall that he had a " Terrific sense of humor. "

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.

Publications

 * The Land Sighted (chapbook, 1970)
 * Memory's Handgrenade (1972)
 * Madrigal on the Way Home (chapbook, 1976)
 * The Glassblower's Breath (1976)
 * Sunday (1979)
 * Like a Wide Anvil from the Moon the Light (chapbook, 1980)
 * Massachusetts (chapbook, 1981)
 * Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy (chapbook, 1983)
 * Half Promised Land (1986)
 * The Drowned River (1990)
 * A Boat in the Forest (chapbook, 1992)
 * Pecked to Death by Swans (chapbook, 1993)
 * 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)