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X-WR-CALNAME:UGA Humanities Festival Opening Keynote: A. E. Stallings
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DESCRIPTION:A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the 
 University of Georgia and Oxford. In October 2023\, she began her four-yea
 r elected term as Oxford Professor of Poetry\, one of the world’s most p
 restigious academic honors in the field of poetry.\n\nShe has published fo
 ur collections of poetry\, Archaic Smile\, Hapax\, Olives\, and most recen
 tly\, Like\, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three ve
 rse translations\, Lucretius’s The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteen
 ers!)\, Hesiod’s Works and Days\, and an illustrated The Battle Between 
 the Frogs and the Mice. A selected poems edition\, This Afterlife\, has be
 en published by FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.\n\nStallings has rec
 eived a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and f
 ellowships from United States Artists\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and th
 e MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Ar
 ts and Sciences. She speaks and lectures widely on a variety of topics\, a
 nd has been a faculty member at conferences such as the Sewanee Summer Wri
 ters’ Conference and Breadloaf.\n\nThis event is presented by the Depart
 ment of Classics\, the Felson Classics Endowment\, the Willson Center\, th
 e Jere W. Morehead Honors College\, the UGA at Oxford Program\, the Georgi
 a Writers Hall of Fame\, and by the UGA Humanities Council as the opening 
 keynote event of the UGA Humanities Festival. It is also part of the Wills
 on Center's Global Georgia public event series and the Spring 2024 UGA Sig
 nature Lecture Series.\n\nThose who have inquiries about accommodations fo
 r access to this in-person event should contact Dave Marr at davemarr@uga.
 edu by March 5\, 2024.
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SUMMARY:UGA Humanities Festival Opening Keynote: A. E. Stallings
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