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Thomas Lux (1946 -- ) is an American poet. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Poet is a term applied to a person who composes poetry, including extended forms such as dramatic verse. ...
Life Poet Thomas Lux was born in 1946 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. Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 44th 10,555 mi²; 27,360 km² 183 mi; 295 km 113 mi; 182 km 13. ...
Sears, Roebuck and Company (NYSE: S) was founded in Chicago, Illinois as a catalog merchandiser in 1886 by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck. ...
He graduated from Emerson College in Boston and published his first book — Memory's Handgrenade — 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 at 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. Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a school of oratory, in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
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Founded in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College is a co-educational, four-year liberal arts college. ...
The University of California, Irvine is a public, coeducational university situated in suburban Irvine, California. ...
Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ...
The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ...
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is an American prize that is one of the worlds most lucrative poetry awards. ...
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 Cradle Place" (2004)
lcc.gatech.edu or poetry.gatech.edu for more information
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