Open House: Where curiosity begins. 25 April

Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count

Professor of Poetry Lecture by A.E. Stallings
30 Apr 2026 17:30
30 Apr 2026
17:30
  • 30 Apr 2026
    17:30
    Schwarzman Centre, Oxford
    Theatre
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This event is organised by Oxford University's Faculty of English and is taking place at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

The next Professor of Poetry lecture given by A.E. Stallings will take place in the Theatre at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on 30 April at 5.30pm. The title of the talk is ‘Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count’.

Tickets are free but booking is required. 

A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteeners!), Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. A selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.

 

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