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Two American poets: a reading and conversation. Oxford Professor of Poetry Alicia Stallings will read with special guest Ernest Hilbert.
Oxford Professor of Poetry Alicia Stallings will read with special guest Ernest Hilbert at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Friday, November 21st. Free and open to the public.
Alicia (A.E.) Stallings is the current Oxford Professor of Poetry. A poet and translator, Stallings’ most recent volume of poems, a selected, is This Afterlife (FSG). Her most recent verse translation is the Pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (Paul Dry Books). She has just published a book on poets, Lord Elgin, and the debate over the marbles of the Parthenon, Frieze Frame (Paul Dry Books). She has also translated both Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things) and Hesiod’s Works and Days for Penguin Classics. She is a MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, and her book Like was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Athens, Greece.
Ernest Hilbert is the author of the poetry collections Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out. His fifth book, Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize and appeared in 2023. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer. He has written about books for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hopkins Review. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry, and his poems appear in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, BOMB, Harvard Review, Arion, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, The New Republic, American Scholar, and the London Review. In 2023 he was awarded the Meringoff Writing Award for Poetry from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com
Date:
21 November 2025, 17:30
Venue:
St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details:
Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Speakers:
Speaker to be announced
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.everseradio.com/a-e-stallings-and-ernest-hilbert-read-at-oxford-university/
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Katy Terry
