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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 12, 2016
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Lux is a Professor and Director of Poetry@Tech. Serving as The Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the director of Poetry@Tech, a
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To The Left Of Time by Thomas Lux
Thomas LuxThomas Lux published his fourteenth full-length collection of poetry “To The Left Of Time” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Lux is a Professor and Director of Poetry@Tech. Serving as The Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the director of Poetry@Tech, a leading showcase for poetry for the Southeast.
He has been writing poetry for almost fifty years, in work ranging from the semi-autobiographical to quarrels with history. His most recent work, To the Left of Time (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), includes poems of celebration, gratitude, praise, elegies, and a few more quarrels.
In the past year, he has also published poems in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Field, Five Points, Ploughshares, The Massachusetts Review, The North (UK), The Poetry Paper (UK), Cordite (Australia), The Cortland Review, and several others. Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac featured two poems by Lux in 2016. In the past year, he has been a featured poet at the Poets House Annual Brooklyn Bridge Walk, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Sarah Lawrence College Summer Seminar for Writers, LiTFUSE, Murphy Writing of Stockton University, UC Irvine, the Decatur Book Festival, and others. He recently judged the William Carlos Williams Prize for the Poetry Society of America, The Georgia Poetry Prize for the University of Georgia Press, and two chapbook contests.
If you would like to find out more about Lux’s writing style and projects visit this link
