Draft:David Keplinger

David Keplinger is an American poet and translator. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Rose Inside (1999), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University), and Ice (2023). His poems and translations have been published by The Academy of American Poets, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry (Magazine).

He has taught at American University since 2007.

Career
Keplinger received an MFA from Penn State University. His first collection, The Rose Inside, was selected by Mary Oliver as the winner of the 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University). Regarding her selection, Oliver stated, "'This is a wide book and a deep one, alive with marvelous composition and outcry. And yet, for all its zest of expression it is real life and real feeling that is most honored.'"

Keplinger has translated several collections of poetry from German and Danish. He has worked closely with Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen since the mid-2000s and has translated The World Cut Out (2007), House Inspections (2011), and Forty-One Objects (2019). He began working with poet Jan Wagner in 2009 and received a National Endowment of the Arts translation fellowship for The Art of Topiary (2017), a volume of his selected work.

Honors

 * 2020 – Poetry Society of America Emily Dickinson Award
 * 2019 – UNT Rilke Prize
 * 2017 – National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow
 * 2003 – Colorado Book Award
 * 2003 – National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow
 * 1999 – T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University)