Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A creative writing professor and director of the annual Eudora Welty Symposium will read from his works Nov. 6 at Mississippi State.
Kendall Dunkelberg, whose books include both original and translated poetry, is being featured in a 7:30 p.m. public program at the Colvard Student Union's second-floor Fowlkes Auditorium.
His visit is part of the Robert Holland Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the university's English department.
A member of the Mississippi University for Women faculty, Dunkelberg is the author of a book of poems, "Landscapes and Architecture" (2001, Florida Literary Foundation), as well as "Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus," a translation of works by Flemish poet Paul Snoek.
In addition to being named a 2005-06 Fulbright Scholar, he has received a Fulbright-Hays grant. Both were for study in Belgium.
Other honors include selection as MUW's Humanities Faculty Member of the Year, a Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities and Knox College's Scripps Prize for English Literature.
Dunkelberg is faculty adviser for "The Dilettanti," the Columbus institution's student literary magazine.
For more information, telephone the MSU English department at 662-325-3644.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.