Alicia E. Stallings
@ae_stallings
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Docta puella. Metic in Athens. "A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence." Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Joined March 2015
I have some new followers, so thought I might mention that this book is now out, has had positive reviews in TLS, The Spectator, and The Wall Street Journal, and I think would be a good summer read, if I do say so myself:
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235-page paperback / 5" x 8" / ISBN 9781589882003Publication Date: 4/8/2025 "Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the reader into a coterie of...
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RT @daphnetoli: In an image making the online rounds today in #Greece, firefighters exhausted and flat on the ground are captured taking a….
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I would like a fine replica of this, please:.
Greco-Scythian Gold Sphinx Bracelet, 400-350 BC. With sphinx protomes, stamped, filigreed and granulated. Found during excavations in 1830 in the Kul Oba Barrow located near Kerch,Crimea
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RT @LewisPRoberts: My modest addition to this debate on reading aloud in the humanities this old account in the LRB about Christopher Ricks….
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RT @ZaidJilani: Forcibly expelling Christians to South Sudan should be a red line for the Christians of America. It should, shouldn’t it?.
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RT @keeptalkingGR: Horse still standing on its feet, suffering with burn injuries, after the flames passed in Filipiada, by Preveza. There'….
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Madness. UChicago:.
And it begins. No music history and theory, comp lit, classics, and on and on.
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RT @amouthfulofair: ‘Generally, I don’t know an ending to a poem until about maybe two-thirds or three-fourths through. At about that point….
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Time for a remake of Footloose:.
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15-year old with special needs held at gunpoint by ICE:.
ICE arrest high school student at drop off for orientation—with guns drawn & live ammunition. 15 year old boy with special needs was finally released—after agents admit they had wrong guy. Agents left live bullets on ground—told school "Keep them, use them for target practice."
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Ghastly. Please help if you are able:.
One of the food banks our pod network partners with had ICE arrest the father of one of their volunteers (who has over 400 hours helping get food to those in need!) They're raising money to help his family. You can give here:
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RT @SohrabAhmari: It’s a bright red line for me — not just for my fellow Christians, but for Gazans of any faith or no faith.
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FFS:.
The police are asking local Cotswolds residents for their social media handles to be passed onto to JD Vance's security detail. Glad to hear some people refused. Honestly the nerve of it, especially for the man who criticised Europe for censorship .
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RT @abierkhatib: This looks like a serious threat to me! . Wow… the fking gall of these people!!!
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RT @JohnMcCullough_: W.S. Merwin poem for those hoping to see the Perseid meteor shower tonight. From: The Shadow of Sirius (Bloodaxe, 2009….
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I would like these, please:.
Greek, Pair of gold earrings with Ganymede and the eagle, c.330-300 BC
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RT @stonecirclerev: “In the language of poetry, where every word is weighted, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a sing….
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Madness. Why do this to ourselves?.
@unusual_whales 🚨 By 2028, AI data centers in the U.S. could consume 720 billion gallons of water annually just to cool their servers – the same amount of water required to meet the indoor needs of 18.5 million American households.
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RT @UndeniableNtwrk: 100% this. They're trying to force us into using society destroying AI then building life destroying data centers to p….
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