Publications
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“These are poems for our times, necessary and abundant of the fervent call to freedom [....] this collection provides the energy, the timbre of our voice and the leap into the spirit waves.”
- Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner; author of Half the World in Light and Everyday We Get More Illegal
"An extraordinary collection that celebrates the human spirit under tragedy and hope."
- Marjorie Agosín, Peabody Award Winner; author of Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile and I Lived on Butterfly Hill
“Christina Lux’s poems bring a ray of light to the forefront of war, that time “when soil is blood & blood is soil.” Her poems bring radical hope in the middle of major-scale conflicts around the world and also the social wars at home, the battles against racism, the losses of COVID-19, and even amidst the struggle she finds the calm of creation, the shelter of poetry...”
- Martín Camps, author of Petition to NASA to Include a Poet on Its Next Mission to Space and Other Poems
“Thoughtfully delightful and provocative, each poem draws you in.”
- Omofolabo AjayiSoyinka, Professor Emerita of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Theatre at the University of Kansas, choreographer, and author of Yoruba Dance
Books
Lux, Christina. War Bonds. FlowerSong Press (forthcoming in 2024).
Magaña, Dalia, Christina Lux, and Ignacio López-Calvo, Eds. Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice. UC Health Humanities Press, 2023.
López-Calvo, Ignacio and Christina Lux, Eds. The Humanities in the Age of Information and Post-Truth. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Short Essays, and Literary Translation
Magaña, Dalia, Christina Lux, and Ignacio López-Calvo. “Introduction: Cultural Humility, Healthcare Equity, and Medical Humanities.” Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility and Social Justice, edited by Dalia Magaña, Christina Lux, and Ignacio López-Calvo. UC Health Humanities Press, 2023.
Lux, Christina. Postface: “Ma voix! Ma voix!” In Demain nous voici. Edited by Le CLEA. L’Harmattan: 2021.
Januchowski-Hartley, S.R., Sopinka, N., Merkel, B., Lux, C., Zivian, A., Goff, P., Oester, S. “Poetry as a Creative Practice to Enhance Engagement and Learning in Conservation Science.” BioScience, 68:11 (Nov. 2018). Honorable Mention for Best Paper, Ecological Society of America’s Education Section, 2019.
Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity and Lux, Christina. “Dismantling Bellicose Identities: Strategic Language Games in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE.” Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4:1 (Summer 2012).
Lux, Christina. “Fluid Attachment: Reframing Peacebuilding through Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé,” International Journal of Francophone Studies, 13:1 (June 2010): 57-74.
Lux, Christina. “The House Facing the Sea.” Translation of “La Maison face à la mer” by Marie-Célie Agnant. Metamorphoses: The Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary Translation, 11:1 (Spring 2003): 193-199.
Op-eds
Lux, Christina and Tanya Golash-Boza. “Cross-Training for Scholarly Writers.” Inside Higher Ed, July 24, 2020.
Lux, Christina and Erica Ibarra. “The Right to Play.” Merced Sun Star, July 13, 2017.
Poetry
Lux, Christina. “Crash, Wave.” Multimedia series of 8 poems embedded in an essay. Illustration, animation, and sound by Charles Payne; art by Lora Jost. Foundry, Oct. 2023.
Lux, Christina. "it's the sting." Dear Vaccine, Wick Poetry Center and University of Arizona Poetry Center, July 19, 2022, globalvaccinepoem.com.
Lux, Christina. “Halley’s Comet, 1986.” Consilience, Issue 9, June 2022.
Lux, Christina. “black n yellow.” (invited poem for MLK, Jr. Day) Merced County Times, May 2021.
Lux, Christina. “lost hoops” and “passover palms.” Merced County Times, April 18, 2020.
Lux, Christina. “10,000 Blows.” Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Reader: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Approaches. 2nd Edition. Eds. Barbara Shaw, Heather Rellihan, and L. Ayu Saraswati. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Lux, Christina. “Wildlife Refuge.” Feminist and Queer Theories: A Transnational Reader. L. Ayu Saraswati and Barbara Shaw, Eds. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Lux, Christina. "Angel Oak" in "After Harvey, Part 2: More Poems from the Flood" by Alyson Ward. Houston Chronicle, 18 Sept. 2017.
Lux, Christina. “anticipation.” Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Reader: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Eds. Barbara Shaw, Heather Rellihan, and L. Ayu Saraswati. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Lux, Christina. “the bow.” #NousSommesParis. London: Eyewear Publishing, 2016.
Lux, Christina. 8 poems. Feminist Formations: Journal of the National Women’s Studies Association. (Spring 2015).
Lux, Christina. "Peacock-Black." La Casa de Colores. La Familia, Segment 2. Curated by U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. Library of Congress. Dec. 2015. (submitted individually and remixed with several other poems)
Lux, Christina. "Confianza." La Casa de Colores. La Familia, Segment 1. Curated by U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. Library of Congress. Nov. 2015. (submitted individually; published with several other poems)
Lux, Christina. “skip that stone.” North Dakota Quarterly, 79.2 (2014).
Lux, Christina. 1 poem. “Tell Me More,” National Public Radio, April 10, 2013.
Lux, Christina. “weight of water” (4 poems). A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford. Edited by Becca J.R. Lachman. Topeka, KS: Woodley Press, 2013.
Lux, Christina. 1 poem. Kansas Poem of the Week. 150 Kansas Poems. Edited by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Dec. 16, 2013.
Lux, Christina. 1 poem. To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices. Edited by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Lawrence, KS: Mammoth Publications, 2012. *2013 Kansas Notable Book Award*
Lux, Christina. 1 poem. The Delmarva Review, 4 (October 2011): 65.
Lux, Christina. “menu.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 38: 1&2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 218-220.
Lux, Christina. 1 poem. Salome Magazine. (March 2009)
Lux, Christina. “l’ar moi re.” 27 rue de fleures, 4:1. (Spring 2008)