Poetry Reading: David Keplinger

Join us for an evening in celebration of David Keplinger's latest collection of poetry, Another City. David will give a reading followed by a Q&A and book signing.

About the author:

David Keplinger is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Another City (Milkweed, 2018), The Most Natural Thing (New Issues, 2013) and The Prayers of Others (New Issues, 2006) , which won the Colorado Book Award. His first collection, The Rose Inside, was chosen by the poet Mary Oliver for the 1999 T.S. Eliot Prize. Keplinger has been awarded two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as funding from the DC Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Danish Council on the Arts, and a two year Soros Foundation fellowship. In 2011 he produced By and By, an album of eleven songs based on the poetry of his great-great grandfather, a Civil War veteran. His translations of Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen have appeared in two volumes, World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors (2007) and House Inspections (2011), a Lannan Translations Selection, and his collaboration with German poet, Jan Wagner, entitled The Art of Topiary was published in 2017 by Milkweed Editions. His work has been included in numerous anthologies in the United States, as well as in China and Northern Ireland, and he has taught at the universities of Ostrava (Czech Republic) and Kosice (Slovakia) as well as in the summer creative writing institute at John Cabot University in Rome. His areas of interest include contemporary American poetry, European poetry and poetics in the twentieth century, poetic meter and form, creative writing pedagogy, translation and artistic collaboration, and the poetry of witness (with emphases on the American Civil War, the poets of World War I, and Holocaust literature). He directs the MFA Program at American University in Washington, D.C.

Another City: Poems By David Keplinger Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571314864
Availability: Not in stock. Order here for delivery or to pickup later.
Published: Milkweed Editions - March 13th, 2018

The Art of Topiary: Poems By Jan Wagner, David Keplinger (Translator) Cover Image
By Jan Wagner, David Keplinger (Translator)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781571314963
Availability: Not in stock. Order here for delivery or to pickup later.
Published: Milkweed Editions - October 17th, 2017

Event date: 

Thursday, July 26, 2018 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Event address: 

Unabridged Books, Inc.
Chicago, IL 60657