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A.E. Stallings

A.E. Stallings is a poet, critic, and translator. Her latest book is This Afterlife: Selected Poems. She was recently elected the Oxford Professor of Poetry. (October 2023)

‘Obedient to Their Words’

As a writer who is so obviously a real person, Simonides perhaps more than any other ancient poet attracts anecdotes and stories that reflect on his character as much as his work.

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies

edited and translated from the Greek by David Sider

October 5, 2023 issue

Ghost Nets

August 17, 2023 issue

Pandemic Journal, March 17–22

Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from Madeleine Schwartz in Brooklyn, Anne Enright in Dublin, Joshua Hunt in Busan, Anna Badkhen in Lalibela, Lauren Groff in Gainesville, and more.

March 22, 2020

For a Young Turkish Violinist, Drowned on the Aegean Crossing (April 24, 2017)

a poem

October 11, 2018 issue

Placebo

a poem

October 22, 2015 issue