For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 1st 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Poets Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer will perform their work, March 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Alex Caldiero is a teacher, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media. He makes things that at times appear as language or pictures or music-- and then again, as the shape of your own mind. He is co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour recipient of Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature. He is senior artist in residence at Utah Valley University.His publications include Sound Weave with Theta Naught (Differential Records), sonosuono (Elik), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance (saltfront), and his work is anthologized in A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge 3rd edition), Text-Sound Texts (Morrow, NY), Fire in the Pasture & Mother in Heaven (both from Peculiar Pages, CA), Immediate Present (Mormon Arts Center). Forthcoming: Per-Sonal Effects. Ogden’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer is a writer, an artist and a creativity enthusiast. She was taught to read, write and embrace her creativity by her teenage mother and her almost entirely blind grandmother. This everlasting act of love was the foundation for a lifetime of creative pursuits. Angelika poured herself into notebook pages and easels for her entire childhood, promising that one day, she'd build a career out of her big ideas and her drive to bring them to fruition. A gentle push to a microphone from a high school English teacher brought Angelika into the world of Spoken Word Poetry. Along with her existing love of art and literature, an additional passion blossomed for works intended to be heard. She was invited back to her high school after graduation to teach students about Spoken Word Poetry and the power of creativity. She began visiting other schools and public events across Utah, sharing poetry, teaching workshops, and inspiring others to create. She has been a featured speaker at the Utah Conference for Teachers of English, Kiwanis Club, Ogden Pride Festival, PBS Utah, Standard Examiner online, Utah Arts Festival, Ogden Arts Festival, Literary Deathmatch, Concrete Rose, "Write About Now" cypher and many other events. Angelika self-published and self-bound a chapbook titled "I Don't Want to Miss You," and published in the compilation "First Moon Manual," and has over 100 digital publishings. She has coordinated poetry slams, open mics, art shows and mixed arts events in Utah cities. She is a freelance writer of anything that needs to be written, with a special interest in journalism, blog posts, essays and instructional content. Angelika was the 2017 Ogden Pride Poetry Competition winner, a coach for "Ogden Slam Team" in 2017, a judge at the "Poetry Out Loud" state slam in 2019, a 2021 runner-up in the "Utah Arts Festival" team slam with her artist collective "O-Town Dream Team," along with other awards and recognitions. Angelika Brewer is an informally trained and self-taught writer, with all of her knowledge coming from writing workshops with award winning authors and poets, self-study, live experience and a love of learning. Above all, she is an advocate for the arts, an avid supporter of the creative community, and a proud flaunter of her humongous collection of art, books, and music- all created by local and upcoming artists Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, former Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity, and inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah, where she teaches queer theory, theories of race and racialized gender, and twentieth-century literature and film. Two of her books—Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” and The Queer Child (Duke University Press)—were national finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. In addition, her recent book Making Out (NYU Press) was a 2020 national finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. Her forthcoming book (with MIT Press) is entitled Gender(s) and she has also authored God Between Their Lips (Stanford University Press). Stockton has taught at Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory and, along with her university’s top teaching award, she has received the Equality Utah Allies Award for LGBT activism, the NOW Lifetime Achievement Award, the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, the Crompton Noll Prize for Best Essay in Gay and Lesbian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the highest honor granted by the University of Utah . | | | | | | | | | | | Kathryn Bond Stockton – Rosenblatt Prize | | | Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long