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.