Poets' Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (2008) Winner
A. E. Stallings
エー・イー・スタリングス
A. E. Sutaringsu
Aliases:
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1968-07-02 （Decatur, Georgia, U.S.）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Latin
- Residence History
- Decatur, Georgia, U.S. → Athens, Greece
Career
- Occupations
- poet, translator, essayist
- Active Years
- 1994-2025
- Affiliations
- Atlanta Review, Athens Centre, Sewanee Summer Writers' Workshop, West Chester University Poetry Conference, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Memberships
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, United States Artists Fellow
- Influenced By
- Richard Wilbur, Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Nominations
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist (Like, 2019), National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (Olives, 2012), Yale Younger Poets Series Finalist (Archaic Smile), Walt Whitman Award Finalist (Archaic Smile), Runciman Award Shortlist (This Afterlife, 2023), Runciman Award Shortlist (Works and Days, 2019)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Georgia | — | Classics | A.B. | — | United States |
| Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | — | Latin Literature | M.St. | — | United Kingdom |
University of Georgia
Classics
Degree:
A.B.
Year of Graduation:
1990
Country:
United States
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Latin Literature
Degree:
M.St.
Year of Graduation:
1991
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Richard Wilbur Award | Archaic Smile | — | University of Evansville Press | won |
| 2008 | Poets' Prize | Hapax | — | — | won |
| 2008 | Benjamin H. Danks Award | Hapax | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | won |
| 2010 | Willis Barnstone Translation Prize | — | — | — | won |
| 2011 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | won |
| 2011 | MacArthur Fellowship | — | — | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | won |
| 2023 | Oxford Professor of Poetry | — | — | University of Oxford | elected |
| 2025 | Lord Byron Philhellenism Medal | — | — | Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism | won |
Richard Wilbur Award
1999
Work:
Archaic Smile
Organization:
University of Evansville Press
Result:
won
Poets' Prize
2008
Work:
Hapax
Result:
won
Benjamin H. Danks Award
2008
Work:
Hapax
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
won
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
2010
Result:
won
Guggenheim Fellowship
2011
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
won
MacArthur Fellowship
2011
Organization:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Result:
won
Oxford Professor of Poetry
2023
Organization:
University of Oxford
Result:
elected
Lord Byron Philhellenism Medal
2025
Organization:
Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism
Result:
won
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Archaic Smile
1999 poetryDebut poetry collection featuring New Formalist style with themes from ancient myth and daily life.
Greek mythologydaily lifeform
Hapax
2006 poetrySecond poetry collection.
poetic formhapax legomena
Olives
2012 poetryThird collection reflecting life in Greece.
Greeceolivespeace
Like
2018 poetryFourth collection, Pulitzer finalist.
modern lifesimile
This Afterlife
2022 selected poemsSelection of published poems.
afterlifetimelife
The Nature of Things
2007 verse translationVerse translation of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura.
natural philosophyatomism
Works and Days
2018 verse translationVerse translation of Hesiod's Works and Days.
labormoralityfarming
The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice
2019 verse translationVerse translation of Batrachomyomachia.
parodyHomeric parody
Bibliography
- Archaic Smile (1999)
- Hapax (2006)
- The Nature of Things (2007)
- Olives (2012)
- Works and Days (2018)
- Like (2018)
- The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (2019)
- This Afterlife (2022)
- Frieze Frame (2025)
Translations by Author
- Lucretius De Rerum Natura
- Hesiod Works and Days
- Batrachomyomachia
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- New Formalismtraditional metrical formsrhymed versefourteeners
- Recurring Motifs
- Greek mythologymotherhoodlovelanguagetimedomestic life
Legacy
Leading figure in contemporary New Formalist poetry, highly acclaimed for original verse and classical translations, recipient of MacArthur Fellowship and Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Quotes
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The poems of A. E. Stallings are never less than the true voice of feeling, and always more ... she is able to realize in her poems the myriad minds of Europe.
Source: Oxford Professor of Poetry nomination (2015) -
Through her technical dexterity and graceful fusion of content and form, Stallings is revealing the timelessness of poetic expression and antiquity's relevance for today.
Source: MacArthur Foundation (2011)
Trivia
- Moved to Athens, Greece in 1999.
- Married to journalist John Psaropoulos.
- Contributes to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and others.
- Featured in Best American Poetry anthologies multiple times (1994, 2000, 2015, 2016, 2017).