Performance poets Alex Caldiero and Melissa Bond will perform at the Salt Lake Public Library on September 21st at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Melissa Bond is the recepient of the 2002 Mayor's Award for the Literary Arts and has spent the last decade spearheading several youth performance and literary programs. She co-founded S.L.U.T. (Salt Lake Underground Theater) which had a brief but thrilling stint reciting poetry to unsuspecting business people downtown. She's also been seen in a pink hoop skirt and cateye glasses reciting Charles Simic's "Breasts" as part of the Pink Poetry Revival. She occasionally collaborates with local musicians and swears that she's going to learn the bass someday soon. For the past three years she has taught creative writing and performance workshops through Art Access and she is finally getting around to her first chapbook which will be put out by Elik Press sometime next year. 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). 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com