Tom Lux
Sarah Lawrence College mourns the death of poet and long-time writing faculty member Tom Lux.
Tom was an integral part of the Sarah Lawrence faculty from 1975-2002, and continued for years to give master classes in the Graduate Writing Program and to teach every summer in the Summer Seminar for Writers, remaining a revered part of the Sarah Lawrence family until the end of his life. Read a tribute to Tom in The Boston Globe
His numerous books of poetry include To the Left of Time (Mariner Books, 2016), Child Made of Sand (Houghton Mifflin, 2012); God Particles (Houghton Mifflin, 2008); The Cradle Place (Houghton Mifflin, 2004); New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Split Horizon (Houghton Mifflin, 1994), for which he received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The list goes on and on.