![]() ![]() Her third book-length collection, Olives, was published in 2012 with Northwestern it was a finalist for that year's National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2006, she published her second book-length collection of poetry, Hapax, also with Northwestern it was awarded the 2008 Poets' Prize, awarded annually to the best book of verse published by an American during the preceding year, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Her first book-length collection of poetry, Archaic Smile, was published in 1999 by Northwestern University Press and in 2022 by Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux it won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award. Stallings's poetry uses traditional form and has been associated with New Formalism. Stallings work is widely anthologized, and has been included in the Best American Poetry in 1994, 2000, and 2015, and in the Best of the Best American Poetry (edited by Robert Pinsky). She also contributes essays and reviews to the American Scholar, The Hudson Review, the London Review of Books, Parnassus, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Review, the TLS, the Wall Street Journal, and the Yale Review. Stallings's poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sewanee Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, Poetry, and Poetry Review. She is married to the journalist John Psaropoulos. She is the Poetry Program Director of the Athens Centre and teaches regularly at the Sewanee Summer Writers' Workshop and the West Chester University Poetry Conference. In 1999, Stallings moved to Athens, Greece. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. Stallings was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia ( A.B., 1990) and the University of Oxford ( MSt in Latin Literature, 1991, Lady Margaret Hall). ![]() On June 16, 2023, she was named the University of Oxford's 47th Professor of Poetry. Stallings is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She has been awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published verse translations of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura ( The Nature of Things) and Hesiod's Works and Days, both with Penguin Classics, and a translation of The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice. Stallings has published five books of original verse: Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and This Afterlife (2022). Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968) is an American poet, translator, and essayist. ![]()
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