For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Alex Caldiero and Sian Griffiths Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M.               Poet and sonosopher Alex Caldiero and novelist Sian Griffith will read and perform their work  on December 4th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.  Poet, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities, Alex Caldiero makes things that appear as language or pictures or music, and then again as the shape of your own mind. Caldiero is the author of numerous publications, visual and text-sound works, including Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press) and Sound Weave (Differential Records). He has appeared in various films, such as Trent Harris’ Plan Ten From Outer Space and Luna Mesa. He is featured in Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge, London/NY) and is the subject of the experimental documentary film The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero in life…in sound (Dream Garden Press and OHO Media). He is Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University.               Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah where she directs the Creative Writing Program at Weber State University. Her first novel Borrowed Horses was published this year by New Rivers Press.  Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, Cave Wall, River Teeth, Versal, Court Green, and The Georgia Review, among many other publications. Versal nominated her story “What Is Solid” for a Pushcart Prize, and Janet Burroway included her poem, “Fistful,” in the third edition of Imaginative Writing.   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