Grace Cavalieri and David Keplinger Celebrate National Poetry Month

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Books and Writing, Performing Arts & Music

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Adults
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Poets Grace Cavalieri and David Keplinger dialogue an evening of poetry, trading poems with each other, braiding their language in a celebration of Poetry Month.

Grace Cavalieri was Maryland’s tenth Poet Laureate. Her new book is The long Game, Poems Selected & New (The Word Works.)  She founded and still produces “the Poet and the Poem” for public radio, now from the Library of Congress, celebrating 47 years on-air. She holds two Allen Ginsberg Awards, the Garrett, Columbia, Bordighera, AAUW awards and the CPB Silver Medal. She’s an Academy of American Poets Fellow. She’s had 20 plays produced on American stages. July 2023, twenty-five years of her podcasts were sent to the moon from NASA on Lunar Codex.

David Keplinger is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Ice (Milkweed Editions, 2023) and The World to Come (Conduit Books, 2021). His work has been awarded The Rilke Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Emily Dickinson Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Colorado Book Award, and two NEA Fellowships (Poetry, Literary Translation). He has collaborated on four volumes of translation from Danish and German, including Jan Wagner’s The Art of Topiary and Carsten René Nielsen’s Forty-One Objects, which was a finalist for the National Translation Award. He teaches at American University.

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