People Poems: Portraits in Verse (Professor of Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings)

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 29 January at 5.30pm. The title of the talk is People Poems: Portraits in Verse.

All welcome! Tickets are free but booking is required via Eventbrite.

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, 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.