Modern Meets Ancient in A. E. Stallings

By Timothy Sandefur

Poet A. E. Stallings has carved a niche for herself by blending contemporary themes with the images and history of ancient literature. A resident of Athens, Greece for the last two decades, Stallings witnesses every day the juxtaposition of ancient and modern, and in poems such as “Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother” (in her first book, Archaic Sm…