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...regionals last weekend, while sophomore Long Ouyang received an at-large bid, beating out seven of the other top foil fencers in the country. For the men the participants include: in foil, Ouyang and junior co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter, in epee, senior Teddy Sherrill and sophomore Billy Stallings??who won the gold at regionals—and in sabre, senior Steve Ahn. The women’s side also earned five bids, with junior co-captain Maria Larsson in epee, sophomores Arielle Pensler and Anna Podolsky in foil, and freshman Allie Sneider and senior Alexa Weingarden qualifying...
...much of her poetry—Stallings showed a propensity for examining some of the literature’s most pregnant themes through a variety of artistic lenses. She performed, for instance, several dramatic monologues by the Greek gods of the underworld, Hades and Persephone, which, although often reflecting Stallings?? characteristic irony, gave the poet a fertile literary topos in which to make some very thought-provoking, even profound, meditations on death and dying...
Stallings, who studied classics at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, is currently at work on a verse translation of the Roman philosopher-poet Lucretius’ epic De Rerum Natura. Thus, Stallings?? preoccupation with classical themes is not particularly surprising. What is especially interesting about Stallings?? work is that in spite of her devotion to the Classics, she does not shy away from exploring themes that are uniquely modern—even futuristic...
...there is a common thread in Stallings?? rather diverse themes, it is that Stallings deftly takes something that the reader (presumably) knows well and uses it to reflect on a deeper philosophical theme. The well-known story of Penelope, for example, is turned on its heels as Stallings reflects on relationships and fidelity; In a poem entitled “The Dogdom of the Dead,” Stallings draws some remarkable parallels between the deceased and pet dogs in order to reflect on how we are affected by the death of loved ones...
...rate, Stallings?? reading only solidifies what many who have read her work already know—that she is one of the best young poets writing today. Her first collection of poems, Archaic Smile, is well worth a look...