Don't Miss this Visiting Poet

Athens has a chance to hear a resident of the “other” Athens read and talk about poetry on Sunday and Monday.

Poet and translator A.E. Stallings, a 1990 classics graduate of the University of Georgia, will read with Coleman Barks and Ida Stewart at Ciné on Sunday at 7:30pm.

Barks is a translator of Rumi, including Open Secret (1984), which won the Pushcart Writer's Choice Award, Stewart is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at UGA who wrote Gloss, a winnet of the Perugia Press Prize.

In 2011, Stallings received a MacArthur Fellowship, aka, a MacArthur “genius” award, for her “exceptional poetic creativity and promise.”

Stallings has written several collections of poetry, including Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award, Hapax (2006), winner of the Poet’s Prize, and Olives (2012).

On Monday, Stallings will participate in a round-table discussion on poetry and translation and then give a talk at 2:30pm in the University Chapel. At 3:30pm, there’s a reception at Demostehnian Hall.