A.E. Stallings, award-winning poet and translator, will present three lectures, Oct. 15, 17 and 18, as one of this year's Messenger lecturers.

Stallings has received numerous awards, including the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets three times, the Pushcart Prize and the Richard Wilbur Award. In 1994 the late A.R. Ammons invited Stallings to read for the Academy of American Poets New York; in 2011 Stallings received both Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships; and in 2012 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Stallings followed her undergraduate degree in classics at the University of Georgia with a master's in Latin and Greek language and literature from the University of Oxford in 1992. Her books of poetry include "Archaic Smile" (1999), "Hapax" (2006) and "Olives" (2012), and her poems have appeared in "Best American Poetry" (1994, 2000). She has translated classical Greek and modern Greek poetry and Latin: Lucretius' "The Nature of Things" and a verse translation of Hesiod's works that is forthcoming. She lives in Athens, Greece, where she is poetry director at the Athens Centre.

Her Oct. 15 talk will be "Writing Poetry"; her Oct. 17 talk will be "Translating Poetry." Both lectures are at 7 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.

In addition to her lectures, Stallings will be a special guest at the "dr T project" Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. in the Carol Tatkon Center, Balch Hall. This event is co-sponsored by New Student Programs and will be followed by a reception for students.

Stallings' Oct. 18 lecture, "Reading Poetry," will take place at 7 p.m. at the Johnson Museum as part of a "Poetry Night" featuring poetry of the Mediterranean and the Near East and hosted by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the museum.

The Messenger lectures are sponsored by the University Lectures Committee. The lectures were established in 1924 by a gift from Hiram Messenger, Class of 1880. Stallings' visit is also co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies Initiative, Society for the Humanities, and Departments of English, Classics and Comparative Literature.

Linda B. Glaser is staff writer for the College of Arts and Sciences.