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David Keplinger
David Keplinger is the author of eight poetry collections, including Ice (Milkweed Editions, August 2023) and Another City (Milkweed, 2018), which won the UNT Rilke Prize. His books of translations include The Art of Topiary by Georg Büchner Prize winner Jan Wagner and Forty-One Objects by Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen, a finalist for the 2020 National Translation Prize. Keplinger directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University, where he teaches courses in poetry writing and literary translation. (updated 7/2023)
Read Nicky Beer’s conversation with David Keplinger and Patrick Phillips.
AGNI has published the following work:
Rilke and the Five Aggregates
Blog post by David Keplinger
Memory, a Snowfall
Poetry by David Keplinger
The Happiness Taboo
Essay by David Keplinger
AGNI has published the following translations:
“I live out my life in the widening coils”
Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke • Translated from the German by David Keplinger
pegasus
Poetry by Jan Wagner • Translated from the German by David Keplinger
The Heart
Poetry by Carsten Rene Nielsen • Translated from the Danish by Carsten Rene Nielsen and David Keplinger