Decatur Native Wins MacArthur Genius Award
Decatur Metro | September 20, 2011The AJC reports that Decatur native and poet A.E. Stallings is one of 22 recipients of the 2011 MacArthur Genius Award. The AJC’s Howard Pousner caught up with Stallings via email from her home in Athens, Greece and did a little Q&A. When asked about what she missed about Atlanta, Stallings replied…
I miss our friends (from high school and college era), and the exuberant greenery and the food (BBQ, Tex-Mex, Little Szechuan, Don Taco, even the Waffle House!). We used to live in an apartment in a marvellous old house in Clarkston, which is immortalized in my poem, “Lovejoy Street.”
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Little Szechuan rocks! And he mentioned exuberant greenery, in otherwords……TREES! I will now have to read his poetry. That is neat about the poem and home in Clarkston.
Uh, treesrock, that’s A.(for Alicia) E. Stallings! Way to go, Alicia!
I’d like to point out that another person with Atlanta ties also won a MacArthur: Shwetak Patel got both his undergraduate degree and PhD from Georgia Tech. A good day for GA in a lot of ways.
And an alumna of Emory’s Women’s Studies graduate program, Tiya Miles.
http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/09/emory-alumnus-wins-macarthur-fellowship.html#.TnoL-XMlYqt