David Keplinger is the author of seven books of poetry, recently Another City (Milkweed Editions), which was awarded the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize, and The World to Come (Conduit Books & Ephemera), which was awarded the 2020 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. He was the 2020 recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, as well as past recipient of the Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, the Colorado Book Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His volumes of translations include the 2017 collection, The Art of Topiary (Jan Wagner), and Forty-One Objects (Carsten René Nielsen), which was a finalist for the 2020 National Translation Award. He lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches at American University.

Other poems by David Keplinger in Verse Daily:
August 20, 2021:   "Astronomy" "The astronomers, you say, can see so far into a distance..."
April 7, 2013:   "The Bladder" "He who'll lose his bladder calls it Three Days Down, or..."

Books by David Keplinger:

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.