Internationally renowned poet and translator A. E. Stallings, who lives in Athens, Greece, will make a rare appearance in the City of Brotherly Love on her upcoming visit to the United States when she reads her poems at Philadelphia’s favorite bookstore, Head House Books. She will be joined by Nicholas Friedman and Luke Stromberg. Philadelphia poet Ernest Hilbert will host the event.

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.

Nicholas Friedman is the author of Petty Theft, winner of The New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, POETRY, The Times Literary Supplement, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and other venues. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives with his wife and son in Syracuse, NY.

Luke Stromberg is the author of the poetry collection The Elephant’s Mouth (2022, Kelsay Books). His poetry has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Smartish Pace, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Think Journal, The New Criterion, ONE ART, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and Montgomery County Community College and lives in Upper Darby, PA with his wife, Laura, and young daughters, Iris and Alice.