| Title | Sound Crossings |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | A Poetry Reading |
| Contributor | Angela Leighton (author) |
| A.E. Stallings (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0417.1.25 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/crossings-migrant-knowledges-migrant-forms/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Angela Leighton and A.E. Stallings |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2025-10-03 |
| Page range | pp. 363–386 |
| Print length | 24 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Angela Leighton is senior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has written widely on nineteenth to twenty-first century literature, most recently Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018) and the edited collection Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals (Liverpool University Press, 2022, with Yui Kajita and A.J. Nickerson). Her poetry has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Dark Horse, PN Review, and London Magazine. She has published six volumes of poetry, among them Spills (2016) and, most recently, Something, I Forget (2023), both with Carcanet.
A.E. Stallings is a US-born poet, translator, and critic who lives in Athens. Her most recent poetry volume is a selection of poems, This Afterlife: Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2022). Her most recent book of verse translation is an illustrated version of the pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (Paul Dry Books, 2019). She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and prizes, including a Guggenheim and a MacArthur fellowship. Since 2015, she has been running a poetry workshop with refugee women at the Melissa Network for Migrant Women in Athens. She was elected the forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2023.