DAVID KEPLINGER is the author of eight books of poetry, including Ice (Milkweed Editions 2023) and Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018) which was awarded the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize. He’s the recipient of two fellowships from the NEA, the Emily Dickinson Prize from PSA, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Colorado Book Award, and other honors. In 2023 David founded the Mindfulness Initiative at AU, where he runs weekly meditations on poetry and subjects in Buddhism every Friday during the semester. For more information, visit his website at davidkeplingerpoetry.com