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Tuesday, May 21, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Author Kendall Dunkelberg will give a reading at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, in the Common Room, Old Main, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The reading is free and open to the public.
Dunkelberg teaches creative writing and literature at Mississippi University for Women. He earned a BA in English from Knox College and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Mellon Fellowship and a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Ghent, Belgium. His recently published poem "Persia" has been nominated for inclusion in the anthology "Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXVII" to be published in 2003.
Dunkelberg's poems and translations have been published a number of 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 his translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek.
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