ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Gino Skyand Alex Caldiero to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 26th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Gino Sky will read from their works on Wednesday, April 26th at 7:00p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. This event is free and open to the public. Gino Sky is the author oftwelve books of poetry and short stories. His best known novel, Appaloosa Rising: The Legend Of The Cowboy Buddha, has been a cultnovel since its publication in 1980. During the Sixties, he co-edited aliterary magazine, Wild Dog, which publishedsuch writers as Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley,Denise Levertov, Diane Wakoski, Richard Brautigan, Rosalie Sorrels, AmiriBaraka, and many more from the "Beat" and "Sixties" periodof American Letters. Wild Dog was considered by The New York Public Library as one of thefinest underground mimeo magazines from that period. He worked in the CivilRights Movement including The Grape Pickers Strike with Cesar Chavez in Delano,California. His latest published book, Wild Dog Days, (Limberlost Press)is the history/story of Wild Dog, along with ahealing poem for the Vietnam War. He currently lives in Salt Lake City with hiswife, Barbara Jensen Sky, where he writes, draws, gardens, and maintains awoodworking shop. Teacher,polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media, Alex Caldiero is a powerful poet andperformer. Heis a maker of text-sound and visual works, installations, and publications,including SoundWeavewith ThetaNaught (Differential Records), Body/Dreams/Organs (Elik Press), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Sonosuono (Elik Press), and Who is the Dancer/What is the Dance (saltfront).Raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY,he attended Queens College in Flushing, NY, and apprenticed to thesculptor-poet Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignaziu Buttitta. Caldiero hastraveled thru Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey and Greece collecting proverbs, tales,and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for thepreservation of the Sicilian language and traditions. He is featured in theDictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Macmillan, London) and is co-recipient of aNational Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour.Awards include Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and theSalt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long