For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Gino Sky
and 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 7:00
p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading
Series. This event is free and open to the public.
Gino Sky is the author of
twelve books of poetry and short stories. His best known novel, Appaloosa Rising: The Legend Of The Cowboy Buddha, has been a cult
novel since its publication in 1980. During the Sixties, he co-edited a
literary magazine, Wild Dog, which published
such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley,
Denise Levertov, Diane Wakoski, Richard Brautigan, Rosalie Sorrels, Amiri
Baraka, and many more from the "Beat" and "Sixties" period
of American Letters. Wild Dog was considered by The New York Public Library as one of the
finest underground mimeo magazines from that period. He worked in the Civil
Rights 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 a
healing poem for the Vietnam War. He currently lives in Salt Lake City with his
wife, Barbara Jensen Sky, where he writes, draws, gardens, and maintains a
woodworking shop.
Teacher,
polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media, Alex Caldiero is a powerful poet and
performer. He
is a maker of text-sound and visual works, installations, and publications,
including Sound
Weavewith Theta
Naught (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 the
sculptor-poet Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignaziu Buttitta. Caldiero has
traveled thru Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey and Greece collecting proverbs, tales,
and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for the
preservation of the Sicilian language and traditions. He is featured in the
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Macmillan, London) and is co-recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour.
Awards include Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the
Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature.
Most featured
readings are followed by an open reading.
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.
Joel Long