Audrey Petty’s fiction and poetry have appeared in such literary magazines as Story Quarterly, The Massachussetts Review, Comarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, and African American Review. Her nonfiction has been featured in The Oxford American, Saveur, ColorLines, Cornbread Nation 4, The Southen Review, Gravy, and Best Food Writing 2006 anthology. High Rise Stories (edited by Petty & forthcoming this spring) is part of McSweeney’s Voice of Witness book series, and is both a crucial addition to Chicago’s social history and a portal to meaningful conversation about poverty, housing reform, and urban renewal in the United States. Petty is an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and a Knox graduate, Class of 1990.

Following her reading, Petty will announce the winner of the Howard Wilson prize.

See the Knox Jazz Ensemble perform at their spring concert on the Gizmo Patio. In case of rain, the concert will be moved to Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for Fine Arts.

The spring concert is a great family event. Bring a blanket and some snacks and enjoy the informal atmosphere of this special annual outdoor concert.

The Knox College New Plays Festival will feature works written by Knox students, faculty, and alumni in a series of readings and performances through May 25.
Throughout spring term, the Knox theatre department will present staged readings and bare stage productions featuring students and faculty, in Harbach and Studio theatres in Ford Center for the Fine Arts.

All performances are free and open to the public.

May 16, 17, 18 – 7:30 p.m. in Harbach Theatre
Summer Song by Jon Hewelt ’13, directed by Kathleen Gullion ’14
McComb 1964 by Niki Acton ’16, directed by Emily Antoff ’15

Kendall Dunkelberg is currently the director of creative writing at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, where he also directs the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium and is professor of English, teaching creative writing, world literature, and twentieth-century poetry. Dunkelberg earned a B.A. in English from Knox College (1986) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. He also received a Mellon Fellowship and a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Ghent, Belgium.

His poems and translations have been published in numerous 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 Dunkelberg’s translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek. His first collection of poetry, Landscapes and Architectures, was published by Florida Literary Foundation Press in 2001, and his newest book, Time Capsules, was been published by Texas Review Press in 2009.

Following his reading, Professor Dunkelberg will announce this year’s Davenport Poetry Prizes.

Dear students: Auditions are being held for the 13-14 Knox College Choir. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to audition. You do not need a prepared piece, and these auditions are very informal. Sign up for a time on the wall beside my (Laura Lane) door, CFA 150. Any questions? Email me llane@knox.edu, or Jmaw Moses jmoses@knox.edu.

Dr. Daniel Brumberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He received his BA in French and Political Science from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University, and a Visiting Fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center. Prior to this he taught in the Department of Political Science of the University of Chicago and Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. He lived and studied in Egypt for three years, and has also conducted field research in Iran, Indonesia and Kuwait. The author of many articles on political and social change in the Middle East and wider Islamic World, his Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran was published in April 2001 by The University of Chicago Press.

A member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Democracy and the Advisory Board of the International Forum on Democratic Studies, Dr. Brumberg is also Chairman of the non-profit Foundation on Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East. During the 1997 Spring semester Dr. Brumberg was a Mellon Junior Fellow at Georgetown University and a Visiting Fellow at the International Forum on Democratic Studies. In 1998-1999 he was a Randolph Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, where he pursued a study of power sharing in the Middle East and South East Asia. He is Senior Adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, where he focuses on issues of democratization and political reform in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. He is also an associate professor at Georgetown University and a former senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Project (2003-04).

“Thanks to the generosity of Knox alumni and friends, as well as the leadership of Trustee Mark Kleine and his Gateway Task Force, gifts and pledges now stand at $11 million,” said Knox College President Teresa Amott. “Even more important, $9.5 million — or 94% — of the money will be in cash by the end of June, which places the College in an excellent position to begin renovations.”

Now that the $11 million goal has been reached, Amott notes, the College’s Board of Trustees will vote at its June meeting to set a timetable for the renovation. Two architectural firms — Holabird & Root of Chicago and Metzger-Johnson of Galesburg — are engaged in the renovation process.

“Like so many buildings on historic college campuses, Alumni Hall has had many lives throughout its 124-year history. It’s now poised to begin a new life as a gateway to the Knox campus and beyond, and I know that the entire campus and community is as excited as I am for its new life to begin,” added President Amott.
The renovation of Alumni Hall will transform this historic building out of the past and into the vibrant future of 21st-century Knox College. The building will house several of Knox’s signature educational programs, including the Gerald and Carol Klail Vovis Center for Research and Advanced Study, the Bastian Center for Career and Pre-Professional Development, the Eleanor Stellyes Center for Global Studies, and the Mark and Jeannette Kleine Center for Community Service, as well as the Offices of Admission and Alumni Relations.

In addition, visitors to Alumni Hall will learn about the heritage of the College and the City of Galesburg through research and programming at the Lincoln Studies Center and museum-quality displays housed within the Whitcomb Heritage Center. Featuring the original large vaulted ceiling, the transformed building will serve as both a gateway to a Knox education and to life after Knox. Standing on the edge of the historic Knox campus, the building also serves as a gateway to the Galesburg community.

“The intellectual and creative energy that we see on campus every day will now be visible to every person who enters the building, including prospective students, community visitors, and returning alumni,” said President Amott.

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The specific criteria for which The Knox-Galesburg Symphony received the Community Relations of the Year was based on projects undertaken which benefited the community as a whole and projects which involved other community organizations.

This year’s pops concert is a special tribute to jazz legend Ray Charles and will feature David Hoffman on trumpet and Manuel Lopez III as vocalist and on keyboard. The program has been arranged by David Hoffman, who toured with the Ray Charles band for thirteen years, and will include music from every period of Ray Charles’ career including “Let the Good Times Roll,” “Georgia on My Mind,” “Crying Time,” “Oh What A Beautiful Morning,” What I’d Say,” and many other Charles tunes.

Joining the KGS will be The Cherry Street Combo with Nate Beck on trumpet, Kyle Kunkler on piano, Jake Hawrylak on bass, and Joshua Calef on drums, as well as special guests Todd Kelly, trumpet, and saxophonists Ivan Keta, alto, Larry Harms, tenor and Nate Moore, baritone.

The concert begins at 7:30 Saturday evening and tickets, starting as low as $10.00, are still available from the Orpheum Theatre Ticket Office (250 East Main Street, ph. 309-342-2299), or at the door concert night. Children and students are half price!