Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count (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 5 May at 5.30pm. The title of the talk is ‘Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count’.

Registration will open soon.

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 SmileHapax, and 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.

 

A E Stallings during her inaugural Professor of Poetry lecture