City Art Presents Michael McLane and Andy Hoffmann

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday April 13th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

Writers Alex Caldiero and Joey Franklin will present their work on April 13^th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Alex Caldiero: sonosopher, polyartists, and scholar of Humanities and
intermedia. He makes things that at times appear as language or music or
images, and then again as the shape of your own mind. Caldiero is a makar (a
maker) of movement, text-sound, visual work, and installations. In addition to
numerous performative works, published works include Sound Weave with Theta
Naught (Differential Records), Body/Dreams/ Organs (Elik Press), Poetry Is
Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), sonosuono, a book of memories, language,
i-(e-)mmigration (Elik Press), and Some Love (Signature Books). He is
co-founder of Arba Sicula, society for the preservation of Sicilian language
and culture, and featured in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan,
London), the poetry anthology Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages, El Cerrito,
CA), and the forthcoming anthology Dove Song, on Mother in Heaven. He is the
subject of a full-length experimental documentary Alex Caldiero …in
sound…in life. Caldiero is senior artist in residence, the Philosophy/
Humanities Dept. at Utah Valley University.

Joey Franklin is the author of My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married(University of Nebraska Press, 2015). His essays and articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, Gettysburg Review,The Norton Reader, and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and is currently working on a memoir about the saints and scoundrels hiding in his family tree.

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.

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