Dorianne Laux

David Keplinger 

Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection,  Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems  was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems,  Facts About the Moon,  won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.  Laux is also the author of Awake;  What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award;  Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition,  The Book of Women.  She is  the co-author of the celebrated text  The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Her latest collection is Life On Earth and will be released in January of 2024. 

David Keplinger

David Keplinger is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Ice (Milkweed Editions, 2023) and The World to Come (Conduit Books and Ephemera, 2021), winner of the 2021 Minds on Fire Prize. His book  Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018) was awarded the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize. In 2020 he won the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, and his work with Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen, Forty One Objects (Bitter Oleander, 2019) was a finalist for the National Translation Award. David teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.