{"389391":{"#nid":"389391","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Thomas Lux\u0027s Poem Featured in The New Yorker","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThomas Lux\u0027s poem \u0022Cow Chases Boys,\u0022 as well as a recorded reading by Lux of the poem, was featured in March 23, 2015 issue of The New Yorker. Lux is a professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E as well as director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/poetry.gatech.edu\/mcever.html\u0022\u003EMcEver Visiting Writers\u003C\/a\u003E program and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/poetry.gatech.edu\/index.php\u0022\u003EPoetry@Tech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ECow Chases Boys\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat we were thinking\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewas bombing the cows with dirt balls\u003Cbr \/\u003Efrom the top of the sandbank,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eat the bottom of which ran a cave-cold\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebrook, spring-born.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe knew the cows would pass below\u003Cbr \/\u003Eto drink and we\u2019d pried our clumps of dirt\u003Cbr \/\u003Efrom a crumbling ledge. Here\u003Cbr \/\u003EAugust lasted a million years.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was no \u201cwe,\u201dI can tell you that now.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI did this alone. At one cow\u003Cbr \/\u003EI knew as old and cloudy-eyed\u003Cbr \/\u003EI threw the dirt balls as if it were a sport\u003Cbr \/\u003Eat which I was skilled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBoom\u003C\/em\u003E, a puff of dust off her hip, \u003Cem\u003Eboom\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003Eboom:\u003C\/em\u003E drilled\u003Cbr \/\u003Eher ribs, and neck, and one more\u003Cbr \/\u003Etoo close to where she made her milk.\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe swung round and chased me up an apple tree.\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer rage surprised me, and her alacrity.\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe looked up. I looked down at her.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs with many things, I did this alone.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe both knew we\u2019d soon be called home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/03\/23\/cow-chases-boys\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2015-03-23 09:12:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:54","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Acinetobacter baumannii","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/03\/23\/cow-chases-boys","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"391561":{"id":"391561","type":"image","title":"Thomas Lux","body":null,"created":"1449246312","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:12","changed":"1475894406","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:06","alt":"Thomas Lux","file":{"fid":"75559","name":"thomas_lux.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thomas_lux.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thomas_lux.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":162334,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thomas_lux.jpg?itok=tQBGEvUu"}}},"media_ids":["391561"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3972","name":"lux"},{"id":"4715","name":"mcever"},{"id":"121991","name":"New Yorker"},{"id":"122001","name":"poem"},{"id":"3956","name":"poetry"},{"id":"12607","name":"Poetry @ TECH"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}