About Thomas Lux and Five Points

Today's poem is "Ode to Chronic Insolvency"

from Five Points

Thomas Lux's To the Left of Time (Houghton Mifflin) will be published in Spring 2016. He is editing Bill Knott's Selected Poems, which will also be appearing in Spring 2016 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is Bourne Professor of Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Books by Thomas Lux:

Other poems on the web by Thomas Lux:
Fifteen poems
Seven poems
Twenty poems
"Remora, Remora"
"Snake Lake"
Thomas Lux According to Wikipedia.
About Five Points:

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Other poems by Five Points in Verse Daily:
November 20, 2015: "Ascension" by Philip Levine
March 31, 2015: "Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve" by Stephen Dunn
March 30, 2015: "Passing Phase" by Stephen Dunn
November 9, 2013: "The Rescue" by Chelsea Rathburn
February 7, 2011: "Casals" by Gerald Stern
September 8, 2010: "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian
December 15, 2009: "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009: "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009: "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008: "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008: "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008: "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008: "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007: "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007: "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007: "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006: "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005: "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005: "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005: "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005: "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005: "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005: "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005: "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004: "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003: "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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