Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Geof Huth and Sparrow


Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested. For directions please visit R&F’s website.

The scope of Geof Huth's poetic production includes handdrawn and computer-generated visual poems (some of them wordless), one-word poems, extemporaneous poems recorded in the act of living, and poems performed in a language that doesn't exist with melodies created as the audience listens. He writes on visual poetry and the textual imagination at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. His latest books are ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth, a book of 775 one-word poems, and AUTION CAUTION, a book of found photopoems.

Sparrow lives in Phoenicia, New York in a doublewide trailer. He is a local journalist for Chronogram. Recently, Mondo Bummer published a chaste booklet of his poetry entitled Crumbs from My Cabana. Sparrow writes bumper stickers, e.g. I'M ALREADY AGAINST THE NEXT WAR.

In the Gallery at R&F:

The R&F Staff Show is an annual celebration of the workers and dreamers that make R&F function on a day to day basis. Come see a diverse array of artwork created by this all-artist staff, featuring work by: Heather Aderson, Susan Apollo, Stephanie Bell, Richard Frumess, Melissa Hall, Jim Haskin, Matt Kelly, Frannie and Foe (aka Josephine Kenney), Sandy Marsh, Kelly McGrath, Laura Moriarty, Vincent Pidone, Kristin Ploucquet, Darin Seim, Sean Sullivan & Cynthia Winika. The R&F Staff Show will be up for a brief time only, from November 17 - 26. We invite you to join us for a lively opening reception on November 17th from 5-7 pm.