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Show The Forum - 7 April 26, 2000 Photos by Nick Brunetti Poetry Series Ends Leaving Tlhe Campus Wanting More By Lucas Hill Staff Writer For those of you who have put off attending the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks poetry series this year, it is now officially too late. You will have to wait until school year. the beginning of the 2000-200- 1 1999-2000 of Weeks series took The final reading the Elace on April 7, 2000, with poets Craig Arnold and Joel Both poets are Utah residents. Joel Long is a teacher of creative writing and art history at Copper Hills High School-iWest Jordan and the drummer for the alternative rock band Iris. White Pine Press published his book. Winged Insects, in 1999. His first collection of poetry. Craig Arnold has also just finished his first book, entitled Shells. The book prompted W.S. Merwin, another poet and playwright, to select Arnold as the 1999 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. Also, Arnold has won a National Endowment of the Arts Award and the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. Arnold is currently taking a hiatus from his studies as a doctoral candidate in Poetry from the University of Utah. In his spare time, Arnold is the songwriter and lead vocalist for Iris. The reading took place in Nunemaker Place, and the building was certainly overcrowded. Those who were unlucky enough to arrive late were forced to sit in the sweltering heat of the second and third floors and had a less than stellar view of either poet. Although Joel Long is the more experienced poet, his reading was not as invigorating as Craig Arnold's. Long stood behind the podium, reading his poems from a notebook. Longs poems are technically very good; however, his presentation of them lacked panache, and one was almost relieved when he was finished. Arnold's reading began with such literal command, that those in the higher floors of Nunemaker came down to sit on the floor in front of him, as there were no other seats to be had. He promised these people he would not "spit on them too much." Arnold, the second poet of the evening, recited all of n Screening Date: Tuesday - May 2 - 7:30 pm Complimentary screening passes are available at THE FORUM OFFICE Converse, Room 201 Itas am M'M ard ar m a frsc cor,. Irl seas bash fest Esdi pass adb& ta fgrcfast ftJttSKsy his poems from memory. This was appropriate, considering the conversational tone of the poems. When Arnold recites his poems, one believes that he is relaying a conversation he has had with someone else, someone you do not know personally but have met through the meeting of another person. Arnold's poems do not seem argumentative when seen on the page, but the inflections or his voice lend this tone to them. His stare moved around to different faces in the crowd, and for each person upon which he focused his gaze, he made the poems he recited seem that mucn more personal. Where Long's poems lacked origin, Arnold's poems lived, mostly because they seemed more like conversations than poems. The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry series resumes in the fall of next school year . |