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WORDS ON A WIRE: Thomas Lux

  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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