Poet Craig Arnold Goes Missing on Writing Trip

An award-winning poet and assistant professor at the University of Wyoming disappeared after setting out to explore a volcano on the Japanese island of "Kuchinoerabu-jima":http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0802-05=. Japanese rescue teams have searched the dense jungle terrain for "Craig Arnold":http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=220, who has not been seen since Sunday, for three days without success. Typically these searches have a three-day limit. "The poetry community":http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/craig-arnold-needs-our-help-urgent/ is rallying to extend the search and deploy more resources to the area. "The Denver Post":http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12264466 reports the Japanese government has agreed to deploy an additional 55 rescuers and extend the search another three days. Arnold is the author of two books of poetry and a Fulbright Scholar. His first, "'Shells,'":http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300079104 was selected by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Young Poets in 1999. Arnold was traveling through Japan working on a series of lyric essays about the region's volcanoes. He had been chronicling his trip "on his blog,":http://volcanopilgrim.wordpress.com/ Volcano Pilgrim: Five Months in Japan as a Wandering Poet.