Award winning poets Craig Arnold and Paisley Rekdal will read from their work on May 4th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch in the main auditorium. An assistant professor of English at the University of Wyoming, CRAIG ARNOLD has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar, an NEA grant recipient, a Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton, and a resident at MacDowell Arts Colony. His first book of poetry, Shells, was selected by W. S. Merwin as the 1998 volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets; his second, a suite of mythological remixes entitled Made Flesh, is currently seeking a publisher. Other poems have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, Yale Review, Paris Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast and Open City. As a devoted student of poetry as living performance, he has been featured at venues as various as Chicagos Green Mill poetry slam, South By Southwest, and the KGB Bar Reading Series in New York. This year, he is Visiting Writer at the University of South Dakota. Acclaimed poet Thom Gunn says this of Arnold: Stylish, cool, and elegant. He should have been a gang-leader. Arnold recently won the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters. Assistant professor at the University of Utah Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000, Vintage 2002), and two books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press 2000) and Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, a Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia Press, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Wyoming Council of the Arts Fellowship, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. The reading is free and open to the public. It is made possible by funding from the Utah Arts Council; the Salt Lake City Arts Council; Zoo, Arts, and Parks; and the support of the Salt Lake Public Library. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com