About A. E. Stallings
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born 1968) is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. Stallings was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia (A.B., 1990) and University of Oxford. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. In 1999, Stallings moved to Athens, Greece and has lived there ever since. She is the Poetry Program Director of the Athens Centre and is married to John Psaropoulos, who is the editor of the Athens News.Stallings' poetry uses traditional forms, and she has been associated with the New Formalism, although her approach to formal verse is flexible, and she freely uses metrical substitution. She is a frequent contributor of poems and essays to Poetry magazine. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), and most recently, Like (2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also published three verse translations, Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things (2007), Hesiod’s Works and Days (2017), and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (2019). A volume of selected poems, This Afterlife (2022), was published by FSG in the US and Carcanet in the U.K.
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Composing a poem and creating a fabric—whether weaving or knitting--actually have a surprising amount in common, not least a lot of terms—take the word “text” itself for example. Line? Related to linen. We spin yarns in our narrative poems. Poets spend a lot of time wool-gathering.
