Professor of Poetry Lecture with A.E. Stallings

The English Faculty's next Professor of Poetry Lecture, delivered by A.E. Stallings, will take place on Tuesday 1 December 2026 at 5.30pm in the Theatre at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

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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