David Keplinger's latest poetry collection is Ice (Milkweed Editions, 2023). He's the author of eight poetry books and has been the recipient of the 2020 Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, the 2019 Rilke Prize, as well as two fellowships from the NEA, and The Colorado Book Award. His four books of literary translation include Jan Wagner's The Art of Topiary (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Carsten René Nielsen's Forty-One Objects (Bitter Oleander, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 National Translation Award.

Bruce Bond is the author of 35 books including, most recently, Patmos (Juniper Prize, UMass, 2021), Behemoth (New Criterion Prize, 2021), Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Award for Literature in Music, Schaffner, 2022), Choreomania (MadHat, 2023), and Invention of the Wilderness (LSU, 2023), plus two books of criticism, Immanent Distance (UMichigan, 2015) and Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019). Presently he teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs jazz and classical guitar in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Other poems by David Keplinger in Verse Daily:
October 1, 2021:   "The World to Come" "The warming has started. In the North..."
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..."

Other poems by Bruce Bond in Verse Daily:
September 1, 2023:   "Invention of the Wilderness" "When a fire pins its banner to the wood..."
December 13, 2022:   "Lorca" "You hear it best where the key turns minor..."
June 3, 2022:   "Fable 6," "In the season of our isolation, we placed a brain in a jar on a table..."
September 13, 2021:   "Monkey" "Once upon a time, there was a story..."
April 22, 2021:   "Snow Burial" "Snow falls through the radio, and the news is mostly white..."
March 11, 2021:   "The Facebook Elegies" "Easy to see, when Robin Williams died, why..."
September 25, 2020:   "Narcissus in the Underworld 7" "Last night a ghost came to me and said..."
July 30, 2020:   "[The passports of the tombstones]" "The passports of the tombstones..."
June 1, 2020:   "Book of Dolls 2" "So tell me about your childhood..."
January 20, 2020:   "Lumen" "The dry cleaner's dumpster, the luminol, the glove..."
December 16, 2019:   "Yah" "You can hear the tremor of the ouds of ancient Morocco..."
May 30, 2017:   "Ventriloquist" "It started with a doll, a woman..."
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" "So when I arrived in hell, the sign said..."
October 27 2015:   "Trinity" "Small things have a different logic to them...."
November 17, 2015:   "Smetana" "When an ear creates its own private pitch..."
August 28, 2014:   "The Abyssal Plain" "Here beneath the last revenant of light..."
December 5, 2013:   "Shame" "When a boy passes out drunk at a party..."
May 16, 2013:   "Words Against the Walls of the City" "Night loves a ladder...."
March 21, 2013:   "What the Given Says to the Made" "How odd the ordinary birds that praise..."
March 16, 2012:   "Homage to the Left Hand" "Not the south paw of the left..."
September 1, 2011:   "Arrows" "Every thrill in us creates unease..."
September 9, 2010:   "Empire of Light" "It's the lantern that we look to most..."
April 17, 2009:   "Sand" "So many grains, so many little tombs..."
July 24, 2008:   "Tuning Fork" "Lynchpin of the singing wheel..."
June 26, 2008:   "Scar" "What is it you forget in your vigil..."
May 8, 2008:   "Will" "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
April 16, 2008:   "Elegy for Tim Buckley" "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
July 8, 2007:   "Confessions of a Music Box" " No larger than a bird coffin..."
August 25, 2006:   "Black Iris" " Dear guitar, my Cyclops, my raft..."
August 14, 2006:   "Planetarium" " As the mobile of planets wheeled over my crib..."
April 18, 2004:  "The Ghost of Weather" "My father takes smaller steps..."
March 30, 2004:  "Rehearsals for the New Order" "The courthouse is empty now ablaze..."
October 12, 2002:  "The Chimneys" "After the fire the monoliths of brick..."
July 23, 2002:  "Mercy" "Dear happiness, forgive me..."

Books by David Keplinger:

Books by Bruce Bond:

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.

Other poems on the web by Bruce Bond:
"The Blue Marble, II"
"Lunette 15"
"The Blue Marble, I"
"Wind"
Two poems
"Witness"
"Frog"
"Curve"
Three poems
Three poems
"Frog"
"Curve"
Four poems
Four poems
Two poems
"Poison"
"The Lost Language 20"
Five poems
Five poems
Two poems
"Hunger"
"Mandolin"
Five poems
Four poems
"Elegy for the Last Man to Walk the Moon"
Two poems
Three poems
"In Memory of Jack Myers"
"Third Eye"
"The Birds of New Haven"
"Geppetto in Hell"
"Metaphysics of the Literal Heart"
"Water Burial"
Six poems
"Heaven's Gate"
"The Dead Zoo"
"The Tadpoles"
"The Tree of Forgetting"
Two poems
"Night Arrival"
"Shutter"
Five poems
"Pill"
"My Mother's Closet"
"Echolalia"
Two poems
"A Little History of Waves"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"
"Ringtone"
"Choir"
"Elegy"
"Thelonious Sphere Monk"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"

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Other poems by Kestrel in Verse Daily:
October 25, 2023:   "My Second Spring" by John Hoppenthaler
October 24, 2023:   "Yellow Poem" by David Dodd Lee
July 25, 2023:   "It Is Advantageous to Place on the Table a [Hollow Figurine] of Apollo, with Bibliomancy" by Lesley Wheeler
July 20, 2023:   "Edward Hopper's 'Seven A.M.', 1948" by Michael Boccardo
July 18, 2023:   "Visitation" by Eric Pankey
December 1, 2022:   "The Languorous Flipside of Fire" by John Minczeski

May 20, 2022:   "Resentment" by Ace Boggess
May 14, 2022:   "Resentment" by Al Maginnes
May 13, 2022:   "Cultivar from the West" by Angie Macri
November 28, 2021:   "Another Story of Ash" by Rick Campbell
November 27, 2021:   "Ars Poetica II" by Dean Rader
November 26, 2021:   "Wine with Everything Was What I Said" by Laura Sobbott Ross

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