Poets Alex Caldiero and Derek Henderson will reading from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, December 9th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Derek Henderson has lived in Salt Lake City with his wife and three (sometimes four children) for almost four years. They are still daily fascinated by the sight of mountains from their patio. His poems have been published or are soon to be published in Fence, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, and GoodFoot, and online with DIAGRAM, Word for/Word, GutCult and ActionYes. He has somewhere around five or six manuscripts that he'd love people to see. At the moment, his favorite quote is from George Oppen: "Yet I am one of those who from nothing but man's way of thought and one of his dialects and what has happened to me / Have made poetry." 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, X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.