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.
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Utah StateÂs Christopher Cokinos Star Coulbrooke will read from their works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on September 14th at 7:00 P.M.
as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Christopher Cokinos, Assistant Professor of English and Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Environment and Society, has an MFA in Writing from Washington
University in St. Louis, where he was a University Fellow. His BA in English
is from Indiana University. Woodley Press of Washburn University published
his poetry collection Killing Seasons in 1993 and Tarcher/Putnam published the
hardcover edition of his nonfiction book Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A
Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds in 2000. Warner Books published the
paperback in 2001. The book garnered wide attention from venues as diverse as
USA Today to Scientific American.
Cokinos is the winner of the 2001 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and the
2002 Glasgow Prize for an Emerging Writer. In 2003 he won a Whiting Writers
Award and the Fineline Award for lyric prose from Mid-American Review. In
2004, the College of Humanities, Arts and the Social Sciences at Utah State
named Cokinos its Humanist of the Year. In 2003, he was award a Gardner
Fellowship from the Utah State Graduate School.
His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as Poetry,
The Iowa Review, dislocate, Science, Birder's World and Shenandoah.
He is working on a new nonfiction book under contract with Tarcher/Penguin
titled The Fallen Sky: Seekers and Scientists in Pursuit of Shooting Stars.
For this book on meteorites and meteorite hunters, Cokinos has traveled 600
miles north of the Arctic Circle as well as to Antarctica, where he lived in a
tent for a month on the polar plateau while collecting meteorites with
scientists as part of the 2003-2004 Antarctic Search for Meteorites
Expedition. For that research he also won a National Science Foundation
Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers Fellowship.
As a writer and teacher, Cokinos is interested in poetry, nature-and-science
writing, research-based creative nonfiction, lyric essays and aphorisms.
At Utah State he is editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature & Science
Writing and heads the English Department's Creative Writing Committee.
Star Coulbrooke first became acquainted with City Art in 1996 through her
teacher and mentor, Kenneth W. Brewer. She would like to thank Ken and City
Art
for giving her many opportunities since that time to be a good citizen-poet.
Star teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing
workshops,
hosts literary events, serves on arts and literary panels, helps judge writing
contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is
published in _Ellipsis_, _Sunstone_, _Poetry International_, Hunger Magazine_,
and
others, and she co-authored a chap book, _Logan Canyon Blend_, with Ken
Brewer. She lives in Smithfield with her Mitch, four dogs, and two cats.
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.
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Tonight at 7:00 P.M. City Art presents its annual Meltdown at the Salt Lake
City Public Library Main Branch in the fourth floor conference room. The
buffet of readers includes the following:
Alex Caldiero
Jeff Metcalf
Jacqueline Osherow
Nicole Walker
Francois Camoin
Andy Hoffman
Jennifer Tonge
Natasha Saje
Julie Paegle
Michael Sowder
Joel Long
Felicia Olivera
Diane Fouts
Lance Larsen
Nicole Walker
Bill Coles
Hector Ahumada
Hope to see you there.
Joel
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