A. E. Stallings is an American poet and former MacArthur fellow who lives in Athens, Greece. Her latest collection, This Afterlife: Selected Poems, was just published.
A. E. Stallings
Beauty Born of Ashes
The story of a lyrical masterpiece that almost wasn’t
by A. E. Stallings | Thursday, December 01, 2022
At the Corner of Byron and Shelley
Poetry and philhellenism at the Greek bicentennial
by A. E. Stallings | Thursday, September 16, 2021
A Name Not Writ in Water
Revisiting an immortal 19th-century English poet
by A. E. Stallings | Monday, April 25, 2022
Warrior Eros
How an army of homosexual men became one of the most elite fighting forces of the ancient world
by A. E. Stallings | Saturday, July 24, 2021
Five Poems
Getting In, Daylilies, Funeral of a Bumblebee, Song for Jacqueline, and Little Iliad
by A. E. Stallings | Monday, March 02, 2020
Swimming the River of Song
How a young scholar demystified the ancient oral tradition
by A. E. Stallings | Tuesday, April 13, 2021
The Sculptor vs. the Poet
Marble can be toppled, yet words are eternal
by A. E. Stallings | Monday, July 13, 2020
Movement and Stillness
Quarantine and sculpture in the First Cemetery of Athens
by A. E. Stallings | Monday, June 08, 2020
Remembering Richard Wilbur
Thoughts on the Pulitzer prize–winning poet
by A. E. Stallings | Monday, October 23, 2017
The Historical Present
Robert Fagle's bold solutions to the problem of Virgil
by A. E. Stallings | Friday, December 01, 2006
Lives of the Ancients
Animating the Greeks and Romans
by A. E. Stallings | Thursday, September 05, 2013
Latin’s Eminent Career
Is the language of empire, the church, scholarship, and Europe nearing retirement?