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A. E. Stallings is an American poet currently residing in Athens, Greece. She has published two collections of poetry, Archaic Smile and Hapax, which won the 2008 Poets Prize. Her new verse [...]

from Virgil's Aeneid, VII, 803–817 The best for last: Camilla at the head Of her cavalry, a warrior queen not bred For girlish tasks and weaving at the loom, She strides before her squadrons all [...]

I found beneath the tangled stems and furls Of peppermint, a string of seven pearls, Perfect and translucent, white as milk, Connected by a strand like spider silk, Eggs of a kind—resilient to [...]

Lucky are the dead; the dead forget The bitterness of life. So at the set Of sun, when dusk comes on, you must not weep, Be your grief for them however deep. The souls are thirsty; this the hour [...]