Introduction

If you think poetry isn't your thing, spend some time with David Keplinger. David is the author of eight books of poetry and a professor at American University. We got to know one another through a humanities workgroup that was looking at how curiosity might be more effectively woven into the fabric of life at AU. He was a warm and profoundly thoughtful participant in the group, one of my favorites. His new book, Ice, starts with the melting permafrost in Siberia, which has begun to reveal the bodies of 40,000 year old animals, from the last Ice Age. The poems about frozen animals then segue into poems about our own bodies under the “ice of forgetting”—and how the light of poetry, for him, melted that ice away and helped him remember. Find David Keplinger's work here: http://www.davidkeplingerpoetry.com Theme music by Sean Balick; “Snow Melt" by Glacier Quarter, Araby, via Blue Dot Sessions.