Writers Alex Caldiero and Lynn Kilpatrick will reading from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 7th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Sonosopher, wordshaker, polyartist, and scholar of humanities and intermedia, Alex Caldiero makes things that sometimes appear as language or pictures or music, and then again as the shape of your own mind. Caldiero is on the Philosophy/Humanities faculty at Utah Valley State College where he is Artist in Residence. He is the author of numerous publications, CDs, and videos, including Various Atmospheres: poems and drawings (Signature Books); Sphota Probe (CD), Ah Bh Gh (artist book), U Latti Di La Matri/The Milk of the Mother (bi-lingual Sicilian poems, CSSSS, Catania), From Stone to Star (Incurve Press), Or: Book O= Lights (artist book), Toy Blood (limited ed. self-published), Words: Exterior/Interior (video, produced by Steve Olpin), Illegible Tattoos (artist book),and recently, Body/Dreams/Organs (Elik Press). Caldiero is anthologized in Text-Sound Texts (Richard Kostelanetz, ed., Morrow, NY), and featured in the Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge, London/NY) and Utah: State of the Arts (Trudy McMurrin, ed., Meridian International, Ogden, UT). Lynn Kilpatrick earned her PhD in Creative Writing/Fiction from the University of Utah and an MA in Poetry from Western Washington University. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Ninth Letter, Tin House, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, Hawaii Review, Brevity and Spork. In 2005, her story collection, The Infinite Cages, won First Prize in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition. She is currently desperately sending out two short story collections, In The House, and When I Say Idaho. She is also working, intermittently, on a novel set in Southeast Idaho, where she grew up. She is the former Vice-President of Writers at Work, and she teaches creative writing and composition at Salt Lake Community College. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and son. 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, X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index