Jon Tribble, Poet and Editor, Dies

We are saddened to learn of the death of Jon Tribble, a poet and managing editor of the Crab Orchard Review. At Monsters and Critics, Frank Yemi writes:

His wife and fellow poet, Allison Joseph, announced his death on Instagram. His cause of death has not been revealed.

“Today I learned that my best friend and my beloved husband, Jon Tribble, died,” Joseph reveals that she was not present when her husband passed away. “This grief is raw, and new, and terrible, and I am so sorry for this loss–so many people adored my husband. I am headed home (we were apart for the last few days) to find a way forward.”

Tribble was from Little Rock, Arkansas, and according to his website, he worked as a maintenance worker, fry cook, and numerous other jobs before becoming an author. He received a BA in English from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and an MA and MFA from Indiana University at Bloomington, where he worked as a staff member for the Indiana Review and eventually became its editor.

He was the author of three collections of poems: Natural State, And There Is Many a Good Thing, and most recently, God of the Kitchen, which was released last year.

Continue reading the full obituary at Monsters and Critics, then turn here for Tribble's poem "Fathers" from the June 1989 issues of Poetry.