Join us on Independent Bookstore Day Eve for the last author event we'll have in the space, on April 26th at 6pm with climate poetry by visiting author David Keplinger and Orlando local writer Alex Gurtis. Reading will be followed by a Q&A, books will be available for sale + signing.

about Alex Gurtis:
Alex Gurtis is a poet and critic whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Autofocus, Barrelhouse, HAD, The Shore, The West Trade Review, and others. A ruth weiss Foundation Maverick Poet Award Finalist and a winner of Saw Palm's Florida Flora and Fauna poetry contest, Alex received his MFA from the University of Central Florida.

about David Keplinger:
DAVID KEPLINGER is the author of eight poetry books, recently Ice (Milkweed Editions, 2023) and Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018), which was winner of the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize for a mid-career poet. In 2020 he was awarded the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and that same year his work in translation from Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen, Forty-One Objects, was a finalist for the National Translation Award. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and other prizes including The Cavafy Prize (2014), The Colorado Book Award (2007) and the T.S. Eliot Prize for his first collection, The Rose Inside (Truman State, 1999), which was selected by Mary Oliver. He teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.

about David's book, Ice:
In a careful examination of personal and collective histories, David Keplinger’s Ice indexes the findings from memory’s slow melt.
"From Dante to Blake to Emily Dickinson, the poems in Keplinger's latest book summon literary history (and geological history, too) in an effort to understand modern life."
—New York Times Book Review