Poet Thomas Lux to present reading at Piedmont

Thomas Lux, the Bourne Professor of Poetry at Georgia Tech, will present a reading of his work at 5 p.m., April 6, at Piedmont College in Brooks Hall. The event is free and the public is invited.

Born in Massachusetts in 1946, Lux has published 10 books of poetry, including, "The Cradle Place" in 2004 and "The Street of Clocks" in 2001. His "New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995" published in 1997, was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His 1994 book, "Split Horizon" earned the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

Lux taught at Sarah Lawrence College for 27 years, the last 19 of which, he was director of its master of fine arts program in poetry. He has been the poet in residence at Emerson College and a member of the writing faculty at the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers. He has also taught at the universities of Iowa, Michigan, and California at Irvine, among others. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.