A.E. Stallings

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To read some poems (in no particular order): Listening to Peter and the Wolf from Subtropics The Catch from Poetry Magazine Olives from the New Criterion Explaining an Affinity for Bats from Verse Daily The Man Who Wouldn't Plant Willow... in BPJ Mornings I Walk... in the New Criterion Variations on an Old Standard in the New Criterion Amateur Ic;onography:  Resurrection in The Atlantic Noir in Blackbird Ultrasound from 32 Poems Extinction of Silence from Poetry Interview: Interviewed by Ginger Murchison at the Cortland Review. Excerpts from the  Lucretius translation: from the Hudson Review A Cartoon: Recitative illustrated by R. Kikuo Johnson Reporting: Days of Naim (the tale of an international poetry manifestation in the Republic of Macedonia), from the Athens News A Web-Cast: of the poet's reading at the National Book Festival in 2005. A Blogging Stint over  at Harriet

A. (Alicia) E. Stallings was born in 1968.  She grew up in Decatur, GA, and studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University.  Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry series (1994 & 2000) and has received numerous awards, including a the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks prize from the American Academy of Arts and letters, a  Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Prize (1997) and the Frederick Bock Prize (2004) from Poetry, the James Dickey Prize from Five Points, and the Nemerov Sonnet Award from the Formalist.  Her first poetry collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award.  Her new verse translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura is out from Penguin Classics. Hapax has received the 2008 Poets' Prize.  Stallings resides in Athens, Greece with her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, and their small argonaut, Jason.

Upcoming US appearances, February 2009

Read reviews of  HAPAX in The New York Times, ForeWord Magazine, the Hudson Review, Perihelion, Smartish Pace, and CPR.

email the poet at aestallings @ hotmail.com