A. E. Stallings resides in Athens, Greece, with her husband, John Psaropoulos, and new baby, Jason. Her first collection, Archaic Smile, won the Richard Wilbur Award. A second collection is forthcoming from TriQuarterly.

Other poems by A. E. Stallings in Verse Daily:
December 27, 2004:  "The Compost Heap" by A. E. Stallings
December 5, 2004:  "Explaining an Affinity for Bats"   "That they are only glimpsed in silhouette..."
April 14, 2004:  "Lilith"   "In the beginning, everything was..."
October 31, 2003:  "A Bone to Pick with You"   "It's time to take the skeleton out of the closet..."
December 9, 2002:  Eurydice Reveals Her Strength   "Dying is the easy part...."
November 27, 2002:  The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles   "Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove..."

Other poems from 32 Poems in Verse Daily:
February 7, 2005:  "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004:  "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004:  "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004:  "Father Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003:  "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
July 15, 2003:  "The Trouble with Being Born" by Christina Davis
July 14, 2003:  "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
July 9, 2003:  "Sonnet" by Kimberly Johnson

About 32 Poems:
Poets in this issue: Jeffery Bahr, Marvin Bell, Larry Bradley, Linda Burnett, Jim Burrows, Rita Chin, Camille Dungy, Rebecca Givens, Michalle Gould, Shafer Hall, Conrad Hilberry, Reamy Jansen, John Jenkinson, Carrie Jerrell, David Kirby, Dennis Loney, Michael McConnell, Nick Norwood, Barbara J. Orton, Stanley Plumly, A.C. Schaffer, Matt Scharf, Natalie Shapero, A.E. Stallings, Jeffrey Thomson, Greg Williamson, Joseph P. Wood, Hillary Rose Yablon, Mark Yakich.