A.E. STALLINGS

A. E. Stallings is a US-born poet and translator who lives in Greece. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently Like (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). A collection of selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. She has been teaching a workshop with refugee and migrant women in Athens at the Melissa Network since 2015.

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A.E. STALLINGS

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 heu! misero coniunx fatone erepta Creusa substitit?. . . —Aeneid, II Even in the Underworld, you didn’t Look for me. When bombs fell, and the walls Rubbled, and we ran through black streets, holding The hands of our small son, and you shouldered your father— Out of his wheelchair […]

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By A.E. STALLINGS