Craig Arnold Tribute Reminder

City
Art will present a tribute to poet Craig Arnold on September 9th at
the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. The tribute will include
readings from Jennifer Tonge, Rebecca Lindenberg, Joel Long, Paisley Rekdal, Brian
Kubarycz, and Jacqueline
Osherow.

After pursuing his passion for volcanoes by visiting sites
around the world, Craig Arnold was lost on April 26th on the Japanese Island Kuchino-erabu
following the path of the poet Basho. Arnold was a vital part of Utah’s arts community. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Utah and continued to live and work in the area since his
graduation, giving readings of his work including a standing-room-only reading
last February for City Art. He was
also a wonderful singer/songwriter, heading up the band Iris in its various
incarnations. Former U.S. Poet
Laureate, Robert Pinsky called Arnold “One of the most gifted poets of his
generation.”

Arnold’s poems have appeared in “Best American Poetry” in
1998, 2004 and 2006, as well as in the journals “Poetry,” “The New Republic,”
“Paris Review,” “Yale Review” and “Poetry Northwest.” He has received the Rome
Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship from
Princeton and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.

Arnold was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to
Colombia and a U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship. He taught at the University of Wyoming.

The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts
Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, XMission, and
audience donations. The featured
reading will be followed by an open reading.