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Dec. 1, 2005
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MUW professor’s translation selected for Poetry International Web

COLUMBUS, Miss. – The editors of Poetry International Web have selected Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg’s translation of “Turquoise Ship” by Dirk van Bastelaere for inclusion on the website for Belgian poetry, recently launched by the Flemish Literature Fund.

Poetry International Web is affiliated with the annual Poetry International Festival, based in The Netherlands, which is considered to be one of the most important poetry festivals in the world.

The poem was originally published in a special issue of The Literary Review in 1997 that Dunkelberg guest edited.

Dunkelberg, an English professor at Mississippi University for Women, has been translating poetry for more than 20 years.

His translations have been published in many literary magazines including Chelsea, The Literary Review, Five Fingers, Two Lines, Osiris and Modern Poetry in Translation.

He also has published a book of translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek, “Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus.”

Dunkelberg is currently working on new translations of poems by Stefan Hertmans. He also will be traveling to Belgium in January where he will teach 20^th-Century American Poetry and American Women Writers at the Catholic University of Leuven and Lessius Academy as a Fulbright Scholar during the spring semester of 2006.