More News on Substack

Posted byKendall DunkelbergPosted inWritingTags:, , , , , , , , ,

I’ve just started a newsletter on Substack. It won’t replace this blog, but it will be a place to post news about my publishing life. My first post describes how Tree Fall with Birdsong found its publisher and reveals a secret about the title poem.

In doing this, I’m also looking for new ways to connect with other writers, and I want to see how Substack works, since we might use it for Poetry South and Ponder Review. I’ve been trying out a number of alternative social media sites as I move further and further off of Twitter (now X). I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon with my personal account @kdunkelberg, but neither seem like the best fit for the magazines just yet, so I’m trying Substack since a lot of writers seem to have gravitated there and other CLMP magazines recommend it. So check me out on Substack for one more way to stay in touch, and find out the backstory of how Tree Fall with Birdsong got its name and landed with Fernwood Press.

Published by Kendall Dunkelberg

I am a poet, translator, and professor of literature and creative writing at Mississippi University for Women, where I direct the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing, the undergraduate concentration in creative writing, and the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium. I am Chair of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, and I have published four collections of poetry, Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite, Time Capsules, and Landscapes and Architectures, as well as a collection of translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek, Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, and the textbook A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing. I was born and raised in Osage, Iowa, and have lived for over thirty years in Columbus, Mississippi, where my wife Kim and I let wildflowers grow in our yard to the delight of spring polinators and only some of our neighbors.

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