Thomas Lux

In addition to having been on the writing faculties of the country's most prestigious M.F.A. and Creative Writing Programs (Columbia University, Boston University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Houston, and the University of California, Irvine, among others), Thomas Lux taught at Sarah Lawrence College for twenty-seven years, the last nineteen of which, he was director of its M.F.A. Program in Poetry. Lux has published fourteen books of poems, most recently To the Left of Time, and several limited edition books that have earned him, among other awards and prizes, the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, four Pushcart Prizes, and grants from the Mellon Foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and three from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lux was also awarded the Robert Creeley Award. He has been further honored with the Bank of New York Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2003, Lux was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emerson College, Boston. He's recently edited and written the introduction for Bill Knott's I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems 1960-2014 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.)

Books of Poetry by Thomas Lux

  1. Memory's Handgrenade (Pym-Randall, 1972)
  2. The Glassblower's Breath (Cleveland State, 1976)
  3. Sunday (Houghton Mifflin, 1979)
  4. Half Promised Land (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)
  5. The Drowned River: New Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1990)
  6. Split Horizon (Houghton Mifflin, 1994)
  7. The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems 1970 - 1975 (Adastra Press, 1996)
  8. New and Selected Poems: 1975 - 1995 (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
  9. The Street of Clocks (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
  10. The Street of Clocks, British Edition (Arc Publishing, 2003)
  11. The Cradle Place (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
  12.  God Particles (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)
  13. Child Made of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
  14. To the Left of Time (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)