{{Short description|American poet and professor}} {{Infobox person | name = Craig Arnold | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1967|11|16}} | birth_place = United States | disappeared_date = April, 2009 (age 41)<!-- {{Disappeared date and age|2009|04|DD|1967|11|16}} (disappeared date then birth date) --> | disappeared_place = Kuchinoerabujima, Japan | disappeared_status = {{Missing for|2009|04}} | education = | height = | relatives = }}
'''Craig Arnold''' (November 16, 1967 – {{circa}} April 27, 2009) was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, ''Shells'' (1999), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/115|title=Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Other Major Poetry Awards<!-- Bot generated title -->|website=poets.org|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515000730/http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/115|archivedate=2008-05-15}}</ref> His many honors include the 2005 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature, The Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, an Alfred Hodder Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a MacDowell Fellowship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aarome.org/rome_prize/2006winners.htm|title=American Academy in Rome - The Rome Prize - 2005-06 Recipients<!-- Bot generated title -->|author=|date=|website=aarome.org|access-date=2006-02-06|archive-date=2009-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505162701/http://www.aarome.org/rome_prize/2006winners.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="waywiser-press.com">[http://waywiser-press.com/craigarnold.html Wayweiser Press The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2006 Two Poems from Craig Arnold's ''Made Flesh'' Followed by a Note on the Author] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120143422/http://www.waywiser-press.com/craigarnold.html |date=2008-11-20 }}</ref>
==Biography== Arnold taught poetry at the University of Wyoming.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/Craig+Arnold|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013070608/http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/Craig+Arnold|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-10-13|title=Wyoming Authors Wiki / Craig Arnold<!-- Bot generated title -->|website=wyomingauthors.org}}</ref> His poems have appeared in anthologies including ''The Best American Poetry 1998'' and ''The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets,'' and in literary journals including ''Poetry, The Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, New Republic'' and ''Yale Review.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/news_1999/blwc99.htm|title=Middlebury College > Public Affairs > News > Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 1999 Schedule of Lectures and Readings > July 30, 1999|website=middlebury.edu|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025073640/http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/news_1999/blwc99.htm|archivedate=October 25, 2009}}</ref> Arnold grew up in the United States, Europe and Asia. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree in creative writing from the University of Utah in 2001.<ref name="waywiser-press.com"/> He was also a musician, and performed as a member of the band Iris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=220|title=Craig Arnold|date=14 July 2017|website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=6 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808234959/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=220|archive-date=8 August 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Disappearance==
On April 27, 2009, Arnold went missing on the small volcanic island of Kuchinoerabujima, Japan. He went for a solo hike to explore an active volcano on the island and never returned to the inn where he was staying. While Japanese law mandates government-backed searches for three days, on April 30, 2009, the Japanese government agreed to extend the search an additional three days.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/japan.missing.professor/|title=Search for U.S. professor in Japan extended through Tuesday - CNN.com|last=Hanna|first=Jason|website=www.cnn.com|language=en|access-date=2017-05-13}}</ref> Arnold was not found, and the search was then picked up by the international non-governmental organization 1st Special Response Group.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trackers find trail of missing US poet in Japan|agency=Associated Press|date=2009-05-06|last=Yamaguchi|first=Mari|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gLhJ5hsGFROyZtfT6uRyIiG0_MwwD980VT5G3|access-date=2009-05-06}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Arnold's trail was found near a high cliff, and he was presumed to have died from a fall near the date of his disappearance.<ref>[https://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=31201 University of Wyoming > News Release > News Release: ''UW Poet and Professor Believed to Have Died After Fall'' > May 8, 2009]</ref>
A collection of poetry, ''Love, an Index'', written by Arnold's partner Rebecca Lindenberg and telling the story of their relationship, was published in March 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/love-an-index|title=Love, An Index|author=|date=|website=store.mcsweeneys.net}}</ref>
A detailed account of Arnold's last few days and the extensive search, entitled ''An Exchange for Fire'', was written by Christopher Blasdel and appeared in the anthology ''My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa,'' published by Chicago Quarterly Review Books, January, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Blasdel|first1=Christopher|title=An Exchange for Fire— The Final Pilgrimage of Poet Craig Arnold|url=https://www.yohmei.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/An-Exchange-for-Fire.pdf|website=yohmei.com|access-date=25 August 2017|date=2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fb20120603a1.html|title=Making a life after surviving the war - The Japan Times|author=|date=|website=japantimes.co.jp|access-date=2012-07-14|archive-date=2012-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707005442/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fb20120603a1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Bibliography == ; Collections * Arnold, Craig. 1999. ''Shells''. Yale series of younger poets, v. 93. New Haven: Yale University Press, {{ISBN|0-300-07909-5}} * Arnold, Craig. 2008. ''Made Flesh''. Keene, NY: Ausable Press. {{ISBN|978-1-931337-42-7}}
; Translations * ''fleischgeworden'' (selected poems, translated into German by Jan Volker Röhnert, luxbooks, 2008)
==Awards and honors== * 2009 — US-Japan Creative Artists Program * 2008 — Fulbright Fellowship * 2005 — Rome Prize in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters * 2001 — Alfred Hodder Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University * 2001 — Dobie Paisano Fellow<ref name="utexas.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/Paisano/previous/fellows00-01.html|title=Graduate School - The University of Texas at Austin|author=|date=|website=www.utexas.edu}}</ref> * 1999 — John Atherton Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference<ref name="utexas.edu"/> * 1999 — Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award<ref name="yale.edu">{{cite web|url=https://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300079104|title=Welcome - Yale University Press|author=|date=|website=yalepress.yale.edu}}</ref> * 1998 — National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship * 1998 — Utah Arts Council Original Writing Award for a book in poetry<ref name="yale.edu"/> * 1998 — National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship * 1996 — Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
==See also== *List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100808234959/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=220 Poems by Craig Arnold and tributes to him at PoetryFoundation.org] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080211163919/http://poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0505/poem_171044.html Poem: ''Poetry'' > ''Incubus,'' by Craig Arnold] * [http://findcraigarnold.blogspot.com Find Craig Arnold - Website with information on the search]
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