David Keplinger

David Keplinger is the author of Ice and Another City. His collections of poems also include The Most Natural Thing, The Prayers of Others, The Clearing, and The Rose Inside. His translations include Carsten René Nielsen’s World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors and House Inspections, a Lannan Translations Selection; his most recent translation is Jan Wagner’s The Art of Topiary. Keplinger’s work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, and The Writer’s Almanac, and has been translated and included in anthologies in China, Germany, Denmark, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere. The recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Keplinger has received support from the Soros Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Danish Arts Foundation. He has also received the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Colorado Book Award, the Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, and the Erksine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace. Keplinger directs the MFA program at American University in Washington, DC.

Awards
UNT Rilke Prize
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2)
T.S. Eliot Award

Books by David Keplinger

Poetry

Ice

Poems
By
David Keplinger

Ice indexes the findings from memory’s slow melt—stories and faces we’ve forgotten, bones hidden in frost.

Poetry
By
David Keplinger
WINNER OF THE UNT RILKE PRIZE

This collection deftly spans not only the physical space of global cities, but more intangible and intimate distances: between birth and death, father and son, past and present, metaphor and reality.

Books translated by David Keplinger

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