Updates on Tree Fall with Birdsong

Today is a big day in the life of Tree Fall with Birdsong. Yesterday was the official launch at Fernwood Press, which meant my book page went live on their site, and as of today, the “purchase” links were active in their online store. Order your copy today! You’ll see that purchasing goes through the parent company, Barclay Press. I’ve updated my book page with the link, and of course have been posting about it, including a SubStack post, which I won’t duplicate here.

The other big news is that an interview I did for Rooted Magazine was published this morning. It’s wonderful of Lauren Rhoades to feature me and let me talk about my book, and the timing couldn’t be better. Review copies go out to reviewers this week, too, and I’m busing lining up some more publicity this way. Look for another interview sometime this summer, and more news on bookstore readings and other events. So far, I’ve scheduled June 5 at Friendly City Books and July 24 at Lemuria Books. Since I’ll be on sabbatical in the fall, I’ll be looking to travel around Mississippi and beyond, so I’m hoping to book a quite a few readings at bookstores, libraries, and colleges.

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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