Thomas Lux

Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1946. He studied at Emerson College and The University of Iowa. His publications include To the Left of Time (Houghton Mifflin, 2016), The Cradle Place (2004), The Street of Clocks (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems, 1970-1975 (1996); Split Horizon (1994), which received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Pecked to Death by Swans (1993); A Boat in the Forest (1992); The Drowned River: New Poems (1990); Half Promised Land (1986); Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy (1983); Massachusetts (1981); Like a Wide Anvil from the Moon the Light (1980); Sunday (1979); Madrigal on the Way Home (1977); The Glassblower’s Breath (1976); Memory’s Handgrenade (1972); and The Land Sighted (1970). Lux was the poet in residence at Emerson College (1972-1975), and a member of the Writing Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He also taught at the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, and California at Irvine, among others. He was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.