Kendall Dunkelberg

Major Works

Kendall Dunkelberg, 2016. Permission granted

Books

• Barrier Island Suite: Poems inspired by the life and art of Walter Inglis Anderson (Texas Review Press, 2016)
• 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, Dallas: Texas Review Press. 2010: 60-64.
• “Natchez.” Down to the Dark River: Contemporary Poems about the Mississippi River. Ed. Philip C. Kolin and Jack B Bedell. Hammond, LA: Louisiana Literature Press. 2015: 41.
• “Undulant Fever,” “Asylum Roads,” and “Ocean Springs.” Poetry South 7. 2015: 34-37.
• “The Little Room” and “Father of Waters.” Valley Voices 15.2. (2015): 7-9.
• “Thorns.” The Cape Rock 43.1. (Summer 2015): 27
  

  Barrier Island Suite by Kendall Dunkelberg

• “Great Spirit Road,” “Nullah,” “Road to Shu,” and “The Cottage.” The Texas Review 36.1/2. (Spring/Summer 2015): 102-106
• “The Rain in Flanders” and “December Flood” Switched-On Gutenberg 20 (2014) Online http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/current/Dunkel1.htm and http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/current/dunkel2.htm
• “Tombigbee River” Valley Voices 14.1(Spring 2014): 26-27
• “For the Record.” Town Creek Poetry (Fall 2013): online http://towncreekpoetry.com/FALL13/DUNKELBERG_FOR.html
• “Horn Island.” China Grove 1. (August 2013): 226-227.
• “North Key” and “Birdfall.” Poetry South 5. (2013): 32-33.
• “Silent Spring,” “Mississippi Sound,” and “Betsy.” Poetry South 3. (2011): 25-29.
• “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)
• “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

Biography of Kendall Dunkelberg

Kendall Dunkelberg, 2002. Photo by Nancy Jacobs

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.

Time Capsules by Kendall Dunkelberg

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, was published by Texas Review Press in 2009.

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

Dunkelberg’s most recent book, published in 2016, is entitled Barrier Island Suite. The poems are inspired by the life and art of Mississippian Walter Inglis Anderson.

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

Related Websites

• Blog of Dunkelberg about Barrier Island Suite
• Faculty page at the W for Kendall Dunkelberg
• Poets and Writers page for Dunkelberg
• Information about the classes writings of Dunkelberg can be found here, including some sample poems.
• A Common Occurrence appears in Slipstream, Issue 17.
• Kendall Dunkelberg: Thoughts on Poetry, Teaching, Nature, Cooking, etc.