A.E. Stallings is a US-born poet who lives in Greece. She has published four volumes of poetry, most recently Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. A 2011 Guggenheim and MacArthur fellow, she has a selected poems, This Afterlife, forthcoming with FSG in the U.S. and Carcanet in the U.K., later this year.

Other poems by A.E. Stallings in Verse Daily:
July 23, 2021:   "Homeric Hymn" "What if it wasn't hell, it was only sadness..."
April 18, 2021:   "Swallows" "Every year the swallows come..."
January 23, 2021:   "Lockdown Puzzle: Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa" "Even the border escapes me...."
August 20, 2020:   "Argos, Odysseus' Dog" "Argos, with your mange-scabbed coat..."
May 13, 2012:   "Deus Ex Machina" "Because we were good at entanglements, but not..."
September 20, 2008:   from "The Dance of Atoms" (Lucretius) "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
January 15, 2008:   "An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro" "It is not the curled-up bones, nor even the grave..."
May 3, 2006:   "Nettles" " March: pinked leaflets sprout..."
April 4, 2006:   "Palinurus" " Sleep is a god, attending when he wills..."
April 14, 2005:  "On the Nearest pass of Mars in 60,000 Years" ""War or Strife—yes, you were always painted..."
February 8, 2005:  "Ultrasound" "What butterfly..."
December 27, 2004:  "The Compost Heap" "It waxed with autumn, when the leaves..."
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 by "Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove..."

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Other poems on the web by A.E. Stallings:
"Ajar"
"Pine Processionaries"
"The Sieve"
"The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles"
"Dyeing the Easter Eggs"
"WebPoem"
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Two poems
Three poems
Four poems
Five poems
Six poems
Seven poems
Eigth poems
# poems
Fifty-seven poems
"Empathy"
Eleven poems
Nine poems

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