A.E. Stallings: Poetry

Awards

Stallings has received extensive recognition for her original poetry. Her debut poetry collection, Archaic Smile, was awarded the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award and was a finalist for both the Yale Younger Poets Series and the Walt Whitman Award. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry anthologies of 1994, 2000, 2015, 2016, and 2017. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Prize, the 2004 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and the James Dickey Prize.

Her second collection, Hapax (2006), was awarded the 2008 Poets' Prize.[28] In 2012, her third collection, Olives, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[5] Her fourth collection, Like, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[4] In April 2023, a volume of her selected works, This Afterlife, was shortlisted for the 2023 Runciman Award.[29]

Stallings has also won acclaim for her translations. In 2010, she was awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her translation of Hesiod's Works and Days was shortlisted for the 2019 Runciman Award.[30]

In 2011, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship,[2] received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship[3] and was named a Fellow of United States Artists.[31] Stallings is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[6]

In 2023, Stallings was elected as the 47th Oxford Professor of Poetry.[7][8]


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