A Statewide Association Serving
Georgia's
Diverse
Literary Communities
News/Mag
|
Volume 8 Issue 2 |
|
March - April 2001 |
|
A Statewide Association Serving
Georgia's |
|||
|
||||
| March 10 - Estrangement and isolation... personal tragedy, a writer’s fodder | April 14 - Thomas Lux, Poet and Teacher
greets, reads, signs at Cecil B. Day Hall, Mercer University’s Atlanta campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive |
 |
Barbara LeBey, wife, mother, grandmother, lawyer, judge and writer, will speak of family travail and how it enriches a writers world. In 1970, appointed by then Governor Jimmy Carter to the job of Vice Chairman of the State Personnel Board, LeBey had continuous experience in conflict resolution. | Nationally acclaimed poet Thomas Lux inaugurated Georgia Tech’s McEver Chair in Writing on January 11 at the Academy of Medicine. Mr. Lux read selections from his works. In celebration of National Poetry month, GW is pleased and proud to offer our members and the general public an opportunity to join us for our special poetry event. |  |
|
Then, in 1975 Carter appointed her to a judgeship at the Georgia State Board of Workers Compensation, where she served for fifteen years. She learned that injured people who had strong family support made the greatest progress in rehabilitation. Once a person has a disabling injury, they often must deal not only with loss of income but also with isolation and estrangement from family. To help those individuals rebuild their lives, LeBey worked with medical personnel, vocational rehabilitation counselors, therapists and clergy. These experiences sharpened her love of family and her awareness of the role family plays in helping its members overcome life’s most difficult hurdles. Her choice of subject for her self-help book, due out this spring, Family Estrangements— how they begin, how to mend them, how to cope with them, is a natural extension of her work. In addition to her book, her writing credits include the editing of “The Equal Rights Amendment and Georgia Law,” a booklet sponsored by the Georgia Commission on Women, 1971; “Gardens of Painted Delights— Impressions of the Eighties,” Southern Homes, Nov./Dec. 1987; “The Perspective of the Administrative Law Judge;” “Entertainment Lawyers,” The Buckhead News, November, 1996; “Soulmates: The Ted Turner Wedding,” The Wedding Pages, Spring, 1997. Also several Op Ed pieces in the Atlanta Constitution and The New York Times, including one titled “In Defense of Hillary.” |
April 14th will be the only other public reading of Mr. Lux’s works. Schedule 1:30 PM Program, Reading and Book Signing *Mail to: 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 another book, Split Horizon. Mr. Lux usually divides
his time between the Metropolitan New York and Boston areas. |
