A. E. Stallings
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| Born | 1968 (age 39–40) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Literary movement | New Formalism |
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born 1968) is an American poet. She coordinates the poetry workshopfor the Athens Centre, which takes place on Spetses, one of the islands in the Saronic Gulf.
Stallings was raised in Decatur, Georgia, and studied classics at the University of Georgia (A.B., 1990) and University of Oxford. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry anthologies of 1994 and 2000. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Prize, the 2004 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and the James Dickey Prize. Her debut poetry collection, Archaic Smile, received the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award and was a finalist for both the Yale Younger Poets Series and the Walt Whitman Award. She was awarded the 2008 Poets' Prize. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review and is completing a verse translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. She lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, John Psaropoulos, 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.[1]
[edit] Books
- Archaic Smile (University of Evansville Press, 1999) ISBN 0-930982-52-5
- Hapax (TriQuarterly, 2006) ISBN 0-8101-5171-5
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Interview with A. E. Stallings" by Ginger Murchison. Cortland Review (Issue 19, February 2002). Retrieved on 2007-04-03.
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| NAME | Stallings, A. E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stallings, Alicia Elsbeth |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
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