Kimberly Johnson is an American poet, translator, and literary critic.  She is the author of four collections of poetry, including most recently Fatal (Persea Books, 2022), and of book-length translations of Virgil and Hesiod.  She has also published a number of works of criticism on early modern poetry, and is currently serving as editor for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of George Herbert and Cambridge Companion to Aemilia Lanyer.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and New England Review, and PMLA, and she has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Amy Lowell Trust, among others.

A.E. Stallings, Oxford Professor of Poetry 2023-27, is known for using classical references to talk about modern life. She studied Classics at University of Georgia and Oxford, and has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things, Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice.Free, all welcome, no booking required.

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