Georgia Writers extends sincerest thanks to THOMAS LUX for his presentation of our Special poetry event

 

held on Saturday, April 14, 2001
in the Cecil B. Day Hall on the
Atlanta Campus of Mercer University

At 1:30 PM Mr. Lux read from his works and answered many questions about poetry and poets, from the audience. The program was followed by a book signing.

Georgia Writers is pleased to congratulate GA Tech for their vision in expanding their focus to poetry.
The inauguration by Thomas Lux of Georgia Tech's McEver Chair in Writing and GA Tech's subsequent hosting of a series of poetry events, has served to further stimulate the awareness and appreciation of poetry in Atlanta.

At the outset of the series Lux claimed, "We're going to celebrate Georgia poets and poetry, and we're going to have a great time doing it." Both he and the and the other fine poets who came forward to help him celebrate poetry made that promise good.

The indefatigable Ginger Murchison is to be heartily congratulated for her dedication to this excellent project. Thank you, Ginger, for your expression of appreciation of poetry via the long hours and hard work it took to make every program a success.
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The remaining program for GA Tech is:
APRIL 26, 2001, The Academy of Medicine, 875 West Peachtree Street, 7PM. Three poets of national reputation, Pearl Cleage (poet, playwright, and novelist), Dr. Bettie Sellers (Georgia's previous Poet Laureate), and David Bottoms (Georgia's current Poet Laureate), will read.

Thomas Lux is the author of nine books of poetry, among them Sunday, Half Promised Land, The Drowned River, a volume of New and Selected Poems, and several chapbooks. He has been the recipient of three NEA grants, a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry, and the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, as well as the winner of the 1995 Kingsley Tufts Award for Split Horizon. Mr. Lux usually divides his time between the Metropolitan New York and Boston areas. For more about Thomas Lux, go to the interview and Thomas Lux, both at The Cortland Review.