Professor of Poetry lecture: Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy

Schedule

Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Examination Schools | Oxford, EN

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The next Professor of Poetry lecture will take place on 26 November at 5.30pm at Examination Schools, Oxford. The title of the talk is: 'Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy'.
No booking is required; seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. This is a public lecture and everyone is welcome.
A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteeners!), Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. A selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.
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Examination Schools, 75 - 81 The High Street,Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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