Our poetry class (with women from Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Ukraine, Palestine/Jordan) at Melissa today had musical instruments as a prompt--we had poems about ouds and qanuns and kalimbas, and ended with spontaneous singing and a bit of dance demonstration.

Mushroom gifts!

"Moschophoros" street art in Athens:

I have a (Classics) grad student who's interested in reading some scholarship/theory on fan fiction. Can anybody recommend some good entry points?

To add to our list of wonderful public lectures this term, we're delighted to announce our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy 26 Nov, 5.30pm Examination Schools, Oxford ALL WELCOME! No booking required.

Glad to be back in APR: this time with an essay about Robert Hayden's ekphrastic poems.

Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis recently told parliament that the government would soon invite Greece’s neighbours to a regional forum addressing all the difficult issues of the east Mediterranean. Turkey has suggested it is open to talks. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...

Had a nice coffee with @commonmugwort.bsky.social in the neighborhood. Now admin, translation, pome tinkering. Onward!

Lots of admin & proofs & references today. Poem tinkering? (Start Daisy Miller?) Coffee.

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

The Dark Mystery of the Agora Bone Well from Athens. Filled with the tiny, fragile skeletons of hundreds of newborn infants, and 150 dogs. Is this evidence of a gruesome ritual or or a plague, famine, or war? Or something else? Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBy1...

"The world is too much with us, late and soon/ Getting and spending we lay waste our powers/ Little we see in Nature that is ours"

Καλό Μήνα!

Doing this soon:

Proofs, admin, references. Translation? Coffee.

OK, lunch meeting with friend, lots of admin. Translation? Laundry. Coffee.

Happy Day of No (ΟΧΙ day)!

Sort of charmed that at the Atlanta airport, you have to specify "Athens, Greece" on the departures monitor.

Doing this tomorrow (Tuesday) 6 pm Ann Arbor: lsa.umich.edu/contextsforc...

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

OK, I am absolutely terrible at updating my web page, but I finally updated the "upcoming appearances," so here is where I will be in the US (PA, NY, MI) for the next two weeks: aestallings.wixsite.com/aestallings/...

Off to events in Pennsylvania and Michigan!

OK, a lot of admin and organization today. Also, trying to get some rest in. Some reading, knitting, etc. Coffee!

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

I regret to inform you that people are now listening to their phones on speaker on airplanes. Insufferable! Am seriously thinking that next time I am in such a situation, I will just start reading my book out loud??

Goodbye, Tartu. Goodbye, Estonia. Aitäh!

Estonia has such beautiful woollens (socks, gloves, hats) etc. Even at the airport gift shop... Guess what everyone is getting for Christmas this year!

Follow @athensarchfest.bsky.social to find out what we have on offer at the Athens Archaeology Festival in just over two weeks’ time! #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #outreach #festival

Καλό Μήνα!

Arrived in Tartu, Estonia, for the World Poetry Today conference.

flock of flamingos balanced on slender stemware or mad flight of hats, magenta origami, by Schiaparelli, above ground, you stand poised as flames on candlewicks, but under earth I know you’re a heavy dark mass “Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

under earth I know you’re a heavy dark mass, circular tuber, a flat severed breast like a loaf of bread, toughened and covered in dirt, bouquet overhead. ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

OK, one of those days where not everything went as planned, managed to lock self out of house, etc. On other hand, Melissa group wrote lots of good stuff at workshop--women from Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Ukraine, Morocco, Syria. Our prompt was a box of crayons. Onward!

Study in @jama.com reveals no link between Tylenol and autism: "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Don’t be the proud girl brought low – that’s the lesson. Come, teach me another: the root, round anchor of buoyant exuberance. ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a new poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Good news! They haven’t come for us yet—& our poets continue to bravely rhyme it how it is (or soon might be) *Click link in thread for all 8 #PoemsOfTheWeek #liberty #freedom #statueofliberty #immigration #immigrants @michaelgerber.bsky.social @paullander.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social

Proud girls, you gorgons, gorgeous in your gowns, rising back unrepentant out of your loam house, tiptoe fripperies, overlook my misreading. ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I can’t help but think of that cruel fairy tale about the proud girl who trod on a loaf to spare her new shoes crossing a puddle of mud. Down she sank, down, past the Marsh Witch’s brewery, to hell’s portals ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836. Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

under earth I know you’re a heavy dark mass, circular tuber, a flat severed breast like a loaf of bread, toughened and covered in dirt, bouquet overhead. ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Hoopoe" is too a word, #SpellingBee! Hoopoe is the thing with feathers! FFS.

Ha!

New poem from A.E.Stallings. More than a nature poem when you read it – don’t be misled by the snippet in LRB’s post. #poetry

New pome out, with thanks to @lrb.co.uk :

And don't comply in advance. He doesn't have the legal power to do this:

Wow. Here in the doom-scrolling department, we're getting a bit backed up. But anyway, today teaching at Melissa, and then back-to-school-night at the school (ugghh). Coffee!

Don’t be the proud girl brought low – that’s the lesson. Come, teach me another: the root, round anchor of buoyant exuberance. from ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a new poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

... Andy Beckett on Tony Benn Clare Bucknell on Rachel Ruysch’s paintings Elizabeth Goldring on the restoration of the Frick Collection and a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk