A. E. Stallings
@aestallings.bsky.social
Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
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My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...
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This man was shot twice during this incredible, selfless act of courage.
We can stand up for each other. We can care for each other. We can be neighbors. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
We can stand up for each other. We can care for each other. We can be neighbors. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
The hero of the Hannukah massacre has been identified as Ahmed Al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop owner. He disarmed one of the gunmen. He is Muslim.
May he be an inspiration to the world.
May he be an inspiration to the world.
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This man was shot twice during this incredible, selfless act of courage.
We can stand up for each other. We can care for each other. We can be neighbors. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
We can stand up for each other. We can care for each other. We can be neighbors. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
Alex Karp is a card-carrying fascist. Holy cow:
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Alex Karp is a card-carrying fascist. Holy cow:
This is bonkers and disturbing:
I feel like a right-winger frothing at the mouth about the Frankfurt School, but there in fact is a vast international fascist conspiracy that has deeply infiltrated our society and must be extruded root and branch.
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is bonkers and disturbing:
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International entries welcome. School and undergraduate students are eligible.
Students! Have you written a poem about math or a mathematical concept? There is a contest, and it is free to enter. Deadline January 20th: www.ams.org/learning-car...
AMS :: Math Poetry
www.ams.org
December 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
International entries welcome. School and undergraduate students are eligible.
Well this is awful:
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Well this is awful:
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Tulips and Snail with Dog and Hare Border, folio 7 (verso), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies), 1608. France.
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
December 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Tulips and Snail with Dog and Hare Border, folio 7 (verso), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies), 1608. France.
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Students! Have you written a poem about math or a mathematical concept? There is a contest, and it is free to enter. Deadline January 20th: www.ams.org/learning-car...
AMS :: Math Poetry
www.ams.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Students! Have you written a poem about math or a mathematical concept? There is a contest, and it is free to enter. Deadline January 20th: www.ams.org/learning-car...
I did this radio interview a couple of years ago, but for some reason, it has only just been released! I daren't listen to it myself at this point, but post in case of interest to others: www.ualrpublicradio.org/show/arts-le...
This Afterlife with Poet A.E. Stallings
Does poetic constraint empower creativity? Known for her received forms like sonnets and sestinas, American poet A.E. Stallings joins us in the studio to discuss her book of selected poems, This After...
www.ualrpublicradio.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I did this radio interview a couple of years ago, but for some reason, it has only just been released! I daren't listen to it myself at this point, but post in case of interest to others: www.ualrpublicradio.org/show/arts-le...
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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New discovery: A late Archaic marble head of a Kore discovered at Vulci represents a rare instance of Greek statuary found within Etruscan territory.
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uni-freiburg.de/freiburger-u...
December 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
New discovery: A late Archaic marble head of a Kore discovered at Vulci represents a rare instance of Greek statuary found within Etruscan territory.
uni-freiburg.de/freiburger-u...
uni-freiburg.de/freiburger-u...
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Janet Lembke (whose translation of Virgil is, I feel, overlooked)
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Janet Lembke (whose translation of Virgil is, I feel, overlooked)
OK, today I am going to zap something to an editor if I can get my chaos ducks in a row. Some translation, some pleasure reading. Coffee!
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
OK, today I am going to zap something to an editor if I can get my chaos ducks in a row. Some translation, some pleasure reading. Coffee!
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One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
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D'oh!
This should say Thursday 11th December.
Join us!
This should say Thursday 11th December.
Join us!
Reminder!
Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec
Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus
With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec
Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus
With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
D'oh!
This should say Thursday 11th December.
Join us!
This should say Thursday 11th December.
Join us!
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My 16th Century mouse prototype finally arrived at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg museum in Germany today to start its two year exhibition. It will be shown alongside a one of a kind suit of armour from the period that was built for a dwarf. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My 16th Century mouse prototype finally arrived at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg museum in Germany today to start its two year exhibition. It will be shown alongside a one of a kind suit of armour from the period that was built for a dwarf. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour
I would like a replica set of these, please:
December 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I would like a replica set of these, please:
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Reminder!
Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec
Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus
With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec
Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus
With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reminder!
Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec
Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus
With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
Online Launch: Thurs 12 Dec
Join us to celebrate the latest issue of MPT, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus
With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos, chaired by issue editor Jessica Sequeira.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
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TODAY! A free online #webinar from @englishassociation.bsky.social at 4.45pm. Calling all #English #teachers! Come and join us to talk about close reading and what we can do with a #poem...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
Adventures in Close Reading Poetry with A History of England in 25 Poems
This webinar explores new ways into poetry analysis and ‘unseen poetry’
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December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
TODAY! A free online #webinar from @englishassociation.bsky.social at 4.45pm. Calling all #English #teachers! Come and join us to talk about close reading and what we can do with a #poem...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...
John Lucas obituary: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
John Lucas obituary
Other lives: Writer and publisher whose Shoestring Press published more than 400 titles
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
John Lucas obituary: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Christmas boat is up:
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Christmas boat is up:
OK, today turning in a big project (I think, if I can get my chaos ducks in a row), and translation. Will try not to get too tangled up in the scrolls of doom. Coffee!
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
OK, today turning in a big project (I think, if I can get my chaos ducks in a row), and translation. Will try not to get too tangled up in the scrolls of doom. Coffee!
The scene in the Georgics where the bull, who has lost the fight for the beloved cow, goes off in the wilderness to train for his revenge fight is hilarious--should be set to Rocky music.
December 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The scene in the Georgics where the bull, who has lost the fight for the beloved cow, goes off in the wilderness to train for his revenge fight is hilarious--should be set to Rocky music.
A bit down in the dumps (December blues? Scrolls of doom), but will try to work on translation and an introduction today. Coffee!
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A bit down in the dumps (December blues? Scrolls of doom), but will try to work on translation and an introduction today. Coffee!
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In the summer of 2000, the Hoffmans abandoned England’s bustling urban economy for village life in Agios Germanos, at the extremity of civilisation on the Great Prespa Lake, a Balkan borderland shared among Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
The tales of Hoffman: Life in the Balkan wilds of the ancient Prespa lakes
An English couple makes astonishing discoveries about the humility and humanity of animals in the midst of climate change
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In the summer of 2000, the Hoffmans abandoned England’s bustling urban economy for village life in Agios Germanos, at the extremity of civilisation on the Great Prespa Lake, a Balkan borderland shared among Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...