Written by: Emma.Carnes@unt.edu
UNT Rilke Prize
David Keplinger
David Keplinger is a poet and translator. His collections of poems include The Most Natural Thing, The Prayers of Others, The Clearing, The Rose Inside and, most recently, Another City. His translations include Carsten René Nielsen's World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors and House Inspections, a Lannan Translations Selection; his most recent translation is Jan Wagner's The Art of Topiary. Keplinger's work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, and The Writer's Almanac, and has been translated and included in anthologies in
China, Germany, Denmark, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere. The recipient of two fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, Keplinger has received support from the
Soros Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the D.C. Council on Arts and
Humanities, and the Danish Council on the Arts. He has also received the T.S. Eliot
Award, the Colorado Book Award, the Cavafy Prize from Poetry International and The Erksine Poetry Prize from Smartish Place. Keplinger teaches in the MFA Program
at American University in Washington, DC.
April 3, 2019
Reception / Q&A
UNT on the Square
6:30 p.m.
April 4, 2019
Reading / Book Signing
Business Leadership Building
Room 180
8:00 p.m.
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visit: http://english.unt.edu/creative-writing/unt-rilke-prize
Marilynne Robinson
April 12, 2019
Reading & Book Signing
Gateway Ballroom
2:00 p.m.
Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by
President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author
of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics
Circle Award, Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,
and Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death
of Adam, and Mother Country, which was nominated for a National Book Award. She teaches at the University of
Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Iowa City.
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