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WORDS ON A WIRE: Thomas Lux

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  Thomas Lux is an acclaimed poet and educator whose latest collection is "To the Left of Time." Lux has been the Poet in Residence at Emerson College from 1972-75, he has taught at the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, and California at Irvin. Lux has also received 3 NEA grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lux joins us on this to talk about his decades-long career, the accessibility of poetry, and his use metaphor.

Lux will also read a selection from his latest collection, Cow Chases Boys.
 
Aired June 5, 2016

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