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MISSISSIPPI WRITERS: Kendall Dunkelberg


Kendall Dunkelberg Kendall Dunkelberg, photo by Nancy Jacobs, October 20021962-

Major Works

  • Books
    • Time Capsules. Texas Review Press, 2009.
    • Landscapes and Architectures: Poems. Sarasota: Florida Literary Foundation Press, 2001
    • Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus: Translation of poems by Paul Snoek. Los Angeles: Green Integer Press, 2000.

Poetry

  • “Goldenrod,” “Farm on a Hill,” “Glass Bottles,” and “Ishtar.” (forthcoming) Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume 2: Mississippi
  • “Day of the Dead,” “Eye of the Storm,” and “November Wind.” Texas Review 29.3-4 (2008): 102-104
  • “Gold Hill: Sangre de Cristo Mountains.” Mountain Gazette (forthcoming)Time Capsules by Kendall Dunkelberg
  • “Black Rock Mountain.” Pilgrimage 33.1 (2008): 70
  • “Chandeleur” and “Dog Keys Pass.” Valley Voices 7.2 (2008): 11
  • “Chivaree.” Tar River Poetry 47.1 (Fall 2007): 22
  • “Alalia,” “Time Capsules,” and “Native Prairie.” Texas Review 27.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2006): 90-93
  • “Snake Oil for Mother Earth.” Pemmican (Summer 2006) Online
  • “Natchez” Big Muddy 6.1 (2006): 106
  • “Dutch Elm” POMPA (2005): 102
  • “Spring Beauty, 1999,” “Possum Town,” “Bramble,” and “Hieroglyph.” Valley Voices 4 & 5 (2005): 14-18
  • “Funeral Train.” POMPA (2004): 93
  • “Halcyon” and “Evening Lychnis.” Birmingham Poetry Review 29 (2004): 17-18
  • “Glass Bottles” and “Chokecherries.” Texas Review 25. 1-2 (2004): 68-69
  • “Texas Canyon” and “Tucson.” POMPA (2003): 57-58
  • “Four Songs for Data Processing,” “This is not a poem,” and “Polio.” POMPA (2002): 63-67

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Biography of Kendall Dunkelberg Landscapes and Architecture Poems by Kendall Dunkelberg

Kendall Dunkelberg was born September 12, 1962, in Osage, Iowa.  He is currently Director of Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, where he also directs the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium and is Professor of English, teaching Creative Writing, World Literature, and Twentieth-Century Poetry.

Dunkelberg earned a BA in English from Knox College and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. He also received a Mellon Fellowship and a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Ghent, Belgium. His published poem "Persia" was nominated for inclusion in the anthology "Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXVII" in 2003. His  poems and translations have been published in numerous literary magazines. He served as guest editor of The Literary Review for a special issue on recent Dutch and Flemish writing, and Green Integer Press has published Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, a book of Dunkelberg"s translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek.  In addition, Landscapes and Architectures: Poems has been published by the Florida Literary Foundation Press. He has four poems in the Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume 2: Mississippi. Some of his translations have been published on international websites and in the short story anthology Tales from the Lowlands, which was published for the Adelaide Writers Week in Australia. In 2006 Dunkelberg was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach American Literature in Leuven and Antwerp Belgium. His newest book, Time Capsules, has been published by Texas Review Press in 2009.

Kendall Dunkelberg is married to Kim Whitehead. They are the parents of one child, Aidan Willem Whitehead Dunkelberg, born December 11, 2000.

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Related WebsitesPhotos of Kendall Dunkelberg taken October 18, 2002, at the Eudora Welty Symposium at MUW by N. Jacobs 

Information about the classes writings of Dunkelberg can be found here, including some sample poems.

A Common Occurrence appears in Slipstream, Issue 17.

Photos of Kendall Dunkelberg taken October 18, 2002, at the Eudora Welty Symposium at MUW by N. Jacobs Translations by Dunkelberg from the Literary Review.

 

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