A. E. Stallings

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Alicia E. Stallings (born 1968) is a United States poet. She spent her childhood in Decatur, Georgia, and stdied classics at the University of Georgia and University of Oxford. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry anthologies of 1994 & 2000. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Prize, and the James Dickey Prize. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. A finalist for both the Yale Younger Series & Walt Whitman Award, her first poetry collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award by Dana Gioia, and is published by the University of Evansville Press. She is currently at work on a verse translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. She and her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, live in Athens, Greece.

Stallings' poetry utilizes the techniques of traditional forms, and she has been associated with the New Formalism. Her approach to forms is flexible and she freely uses metrical substitution.Interview in Cortland Review, 19. See 'External links' section.

Books

• Archaic Smile. University of Evansville Press, 1999. ISBN 0930982525. Winner of the Richard Wilbur Award
• Hapax TriQuarterly, 2006. ISBN 0810151715

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