A. E. Stallings

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.

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 Swift Completion

Why letters matter

by A. E. Stallings | Monday, August 24, 2020

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?

by A. E. Stallings | Saturday, December 01, 2007