Huth, Geoffrey A.; Papers mss137 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 23, 2021. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives Huth, Geoffrey A.; Papers mss137 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 4 Biographical Sketch ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Arrangement of the Collection ...................................................................................................................... 6 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 7 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 7 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Biographical Records .................................................................................................................................. 8 Art .............................................................................................................................................................. 8 Associations ............................................................................................................................................ 15 Personal ................................................................................................................................................... 19 School ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 Work ........................................................................................................................................................ 23 Writing and Art ......................................................................................................................................... 33 Writing and Art ...................................................................................................................................... 33 Correspondence .......................................................................................................................................... 51 Paper Correspondence ............................................................................................................................ 52 dbqp Records ............................................................................................................................................. 74 dbqp Publications .................................................................................................................................... 74 dbqp Layouts to Publications ................................................................................................................. 91 dbqp Business Records ......................................................................................................................... 101 dbqp: Visualizing Poetics ..................................................................................................................... 103 pdqb Records ........................................................................................................................................... 107 pdqb Publications .................................................................................................................................. 107 pdqb Layouts to Publications ............................................................................................................... 112 Administrative Records ........................................................................................................................ 115 qbdp Records ........................................................................................................................................... 116 qbdp Publications .................................................................................................................................. 116 qbdp Layouts to Publications ............................................................................................................... 125 CWM Records ......................................................................................................................................... 126 Weblogs ................................................................................................................................................... 127 One Million Footnotes .......................................................................................................................... 130 Visual Poetry Clippings ........................................................................................................................ 131 - Page 2 - Huth, Geoffrey A.; Papers mss137 Electronic Files ........................................................................................................................................ 132 Audio-Visual Records ............................................................................................................................. 132 Audio Files ............................................................................................................................................ 133 Films ...................................................................................................................................................... 134 Video Files ............................................................................................................................................ 135 Photographic Records .............................................................................................................................. 136 Publications .............................................................................................................................................. 137 Paper Publications ................................................................................................................................. 137 - Page 3 - Huth, Geoffrey A.; Papers mss137 Summary Information 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Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives Title: Geof Huth Papers ID: mss137 Date [inclusive]: 1960-2006 Physical Description: 60.7 cubic ft. 5.65 GB of Electronic Records Physical Location: The materials are located onsite in the department. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The majority of these papers focus on Geof Huth's artistic activities: his creation of artworks, his involvement in the fields of visual and experimental poetry, his productions as a micropublisher, and his work as an active blogger in the worldwide network of online poets. They also document his personal life and professional career in archives and records management. Preferred Citation Preferred citation for this material is as follows: Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Geof Huth Papers 1960-2006 (MSS-137). M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Huth Papers). ^ Return to Table of Contents Biographical Sketch Geof Huth is an artist and archivist who was born in 1960 in Burlingame, California. He spent the vast majority of his childhood living overseas on four continents and in nine countries. He has lived in California, Virginia, Portugal, Canada, the District of Columbia, Barbados, Bolivia, Ghana, Morocco, Tennessee, Somalia, Germany, and New York. He has also traveled extensively in South America, Europe, Africa, and the United States. He learned to read and write Portuguese and German before he learned English, but he eventually lost the use of both languages. He currently reads, writes, and speaks French and Spanish to some degree. - Page 4- Huth, Geoffrey A.; Papers mss137 His first school was the Deutsche Schule zu Porto, the German school of Oporto, Portugal, where the languages of instruction were German and Portuguese. He attended fifteen schools across the world before he graduated from Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1978. He graduated with a BA in English from Vanderbilt University in 1982, received an MA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 1986, and earned a Master of Library Science from the University at Albany in 1989. He married Nancy Anne Frye in 1984, and they have two children, Erin and Timothy. Huth began writing short stories, poetry, and commonplace books when he was a child. In college, he began producing other kinds of art, including films, photography, and other visual art. He has been active in the international visual poetry field since 1985, and has produced a wide variety of language-based art since that time, including poetry, visual poetry, fiction, essays, and creative dictionaries. Huth is a well known authority on visual poetry and has spent years writing visual poetry criticism and theory, most of it published to his weblog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. Starting in