- A. E. Stallings
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website = http://www.geocities.com/aestallings/Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born
1968 ) is an Americanpoet . She coordinates the [http://www.geocities.com/aestallings/Spetses.html| poetry workshop] for the [http://www.athenscentre.gr/poetry_workshop.htm|The Athens Centre] , which takes place onSpetses , one of the islands in theSaronic Gulf .Stallings was raised in
Decatur, Georgia , and studiedclassics at theUniversity of Georgia (A.B., 1990) andUniversity of Oxford . Her poems have appeared in "The Best American Poetry" anthologies of 1994 and 2000. She has been awarded aPushcart Prize , the Eunice Tietjens Prize, the 2004Howard 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 theWalt Whitman Award . She was awarded the 2008Poets' Prize . She is an editor with the "Atlanta Review" and is completing a verse translation of Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura". She lives inAthens ,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. [cite web|url=http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/19/stallings19.html|date=Issue 19, February 2002|accessdate=2007-04-03|title="Interview with A. E. Stallings" by Ginger Murchison|work=Cortland Review]Books
* "Archaic Smile" (University of Evansville Press, 1999) ISBN 0-930982-52-5
* "Hapax" (TriQuarterly, 2006) ISBN 0-8101-5171-5Notes
External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/aestallings/ A. E. Stallings's website]
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NAME=Stallings, A. E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Stallings, Alicia Elsbeth
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