The Most Natural Thing (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
David Keplinger is the author of three books of poetry, most recentlyThe Clearing(2005) andThe Prayers of Others(New Issues, 2006), which won the 2007 Colorado Book Award. He is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the SOROS Foundation, and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2011 BOA, Ltd. publishedHouse Inspections, his translations of Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen, and in 2007World Cut out with Crooked Scissors, Nielsen's selected poems, appeared from New Issues Press. Keplinger directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, D.C.