David Keplinger is the author of seven poetry books, recently The World to Come (Conduit Books and Ephemera, 2021), which won the Minds on Fire Open Book Award, and Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018), which was awarded the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize. In 2020 he was selected for the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. His translation of Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen, Forty-One Objects, was a finalist for the 2020 National Translation Award. His recent work can be found in Ploughshares, The New England Review, The New Republic, Copper Nickel, Plume, and elsewhere. He teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.

Other poems by David Keplinger in Verse Daily:
April 7, 2013:   "The Bladder" "He who'll lose his bladder calls it Three Days Down, or..."

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Other poems on the web by David Keplinger:
"Making Arrangements"
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"The Carried Quality"
"The Age of the Onion"

David Keplinger's Website.

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