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Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Well, back in Athens from two weeks of very busy teaching/lecturing/participating in Oxford, and unpacking, and of course have now come down with a cold! Tea.
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Καλό Μήνα!
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Ellen Bryant Voigt, Poet With a Musical Ear, Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/b...
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Poet With a Musical Ear, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Goodbye, Oxford. See you in January!
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Village life near lake Prespa:
In the summer of 2000, the Hoffmans abandoned England’s bustling urban economy for village life in Agios Germanos, at the extremity of civilisation on the Great Prespa Lake, a Balkan borderland shared among Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
The tales of Hoffman: Life in the Balkan wilds of the ancient Prespa lakes
An English couple makes astonishing discoveries about the humility and humanity of animals in the midst of climate change
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
What??
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week

seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star

www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Last push! Timing out the sections of the lecture. All the coffee!
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Doing this very soon! Arrghh!
Don't miss the opportunity to hear our Professor of #poetry, A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social, talk in Oxford this week.

Rhyme as Experiment/ #Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November 2025, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, High St, Oxford

FREE! No booking required. ALL WELCOME!

#Oxfordevents #PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
OK, so (evidently) this lecture is not going to write or organize itself. Coffee!
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
OK, so (evidently) this lecture is not going to write or organize itself. Coffee!
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Is this book puckering for a kiss?:
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
OK, focusing on the lecture today, which is currently three talks in a trench coat. Coffee!
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Adversarial poems!
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260.

Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked!

Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
OK, today working on lecture! No distractions! Also, a bit of good news--daughter's artwork selected for school's holiday card. (Obviously will be buying large box of these.) Coffee!
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
View of Radcliffe Observatory (based on the Tower of the Winds in Athens) from the new Schwarzman Centre library today:
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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With a year’s supply left in resevoirs, the government is focusing on diverting rivers, pumping groundwater and desalination, but pays little attention to the economies that can be cheaply achieved by managing household demand and the ravages of tourism. open.substack.com/pub/johntpsa...
Athens is running out of water
The government’s plan is to supply more through river diversions, desalination and groundwater, with little focus on managing demand
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Join us on 26 November for A.E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture on 'Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy'.

26 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools

ALL WELCOME! No booking required.

#poetry #TeamEnglish @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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One of my favourite poets discussing another of my favourite poets.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A great poem about a meadowlark, in a beautiful short piece of appreciation. You’ll like both, birding and ecology pals.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My latest Echolocations issue: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...
Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 5)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Excellent vintage #Cats:
'Three black cats' by Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
OK, today will finish book introduction, do some admin, and work on upcoming lecture. (Also get nails done, because grooming counts as preparing for lecture too?) Coffee.
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Fun! Be sure to find the link to the recording.

@cornellbirds.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM