An Evening of Poetry with Dana Gioia and A.E. Stallings

When: Tuesday, November 17, 2026 Time: 6:00–7:30 pm Where: Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302 About the Event Join the Benson Center for an evening of poetry featuring Dana Gioia and A.E. Stallings, with an introduction by Professor Joseph Bottum. No registration required. About the Readings A.E. Stallings will read from her most recent book, Archaic Smile. In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life (like losing an umbrella or fishing with one’s father), and she infuses the latter with the magic of myth and history. With the skill of a scholar and translator and the playful, pristine composition of a poet, Stallings bridges the gap between these two distant worlds. Stallings “invigorates the old forms and makes them sing” (Meryl Natchez, ZYZZYVA) in her...