And the winner is …

… Election of the Professor of Poetry | University of Oxford. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Professor Marion Turner, Chair of the English Faculty Board at Oxford, said, ‘Poetry is the heart of the English Faculty and other Humanities Faculties in Oxford. Poetry engages and excites children before prose does. Poetry crosses cultures and time: in the pandemic many people realised anew its power and importance. I am delighted to welcome A.E. Stallings as Oxford’s 47^th Professor of Poetry, confident that she will bring something new and thrilling to the role, as her predecessors have done. 

I got to know Alicia at the West Chester University Poetry Conference. Delightfully brilliant.