A First Reading in Another Home Country

Geof Huth, "Found Asemic Poem" (17 September 2011)

One week from today, Nancy (AKA NF Huth) and I will be performing our poetry in St Catharine's, Ontario, along with the Ontarioan poet Angela Szczepaniak. For Nancy, this is an important reading because it will be the launch of her new chapbook "3 Words" (out from serif of nottingham editions), and because it will be the first stop on her reading tour for her new full-length book of poetry, Radiator . (Actually, it's the only stop on this book tour, so be sure to contact her to extend the tour into the future.

For me, this is an important reading because it's my first in Canada, which is one of my nine home countries, one of the nine countries where I have lived, on four different continents across the globe. This will be only the second home country I will have given a reading in (the first being the country of my birth and current residence.) As I tell my children, I consider myself part-Canadian. The country is in my blood, and my home province was Ontario, so this is a homecoming of sorts for me, though I'll be on the wrong great lake. I live on the shores of Lake Erie.

My thanks to the organizers of the Grey Borders Reading Series for setting up this event. I'll spend next Saturday driving across this state to make it to this event, to see my friend the polymath poet, Gary Barwin, and to return home for a tiny spell.

Below is my slight reworking, with links where possible, of the announcement of the reading. Be there if you can be. Note that it's not a far drive at all from Buffalo.


What?Grey Borders Reading Series' Second Event of the Season


Who?
Geof Huth (US)
NF Huth (US),
& Angela Szczepaniak (Canada)


Where?
Niagara Artists Centre (354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, Ontario)


When?
Saturday, October 1, 2011 @ 8pm

How?
No cover, donations encouraged.

This reading will also be the launch of NF Huth's "3 Words" published by Gary Barwin's serif of nottingham editions!

AND if that isn't enough! There is also a reception for "sicksecrets" by Laura Woermke in NAC's Members Gallery @ 7pm


Who Again?

Geof Huth's poetry consists of one-word poems, poems written in unintelligible scripts, poems painted onto canvas or assembled within boxes, poems spoken or sung and audio- or videorecorded during the moments of their creation, poems created within nature and left to disappear back into it, and even syntactic text separated into lines. He writes frequently about poetry, visual and otherwise, at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. Each of his poetry performances attempts to use his entire body fully to examine the limitations of poetry. His latest book is ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth , a book of 775 one-word poems. His forthcoming book of poetry is AUTION CAUTION, a set of found and manipulated photopoems due out from Redfoxpress of Ireland.


NF Huth's poetry, both textual and visual, has appeared in Listenlight, The Literary Review, Philadelphia Poets, Syracuse Poems and Stories, CWM, The New Post-Literate, and others. sansound, a book of visual poetry, was published by dbqp in 2009.

In 2011 her chapbook, A Space for It , was published as part of the This is Visual Poetry series and uses photos she took in Finland, Manchester, U.K., on East Caroga Lake and in Schenectady, New York. Her first book, Radiator , has been published by Laughing/Ouch/Cube, an occasional imprint of Leafe Press, and serif of nottingham editions will publish her chapbook, 3 Words, this fall.

She publishes found sound at Click Buzz Chirp and photographic images that are both pointy and blue at Pointy Blue (both blogspot and tumblr).

NF Huth lives and writes in a strangely stone house in Schenectady, New York.


Angela Szczepaniak has conducted an enormous amount of imaginary research into the fonts of questionable usefulness that populate our most adored office suites. Her first book, Unisex Love Poems , records some of these efforts, along with some of the most ill-advised dating tips on the market. Her forthcoming book, The QWERTY Institute (annual report) is large and unwieldy, and will soon be available from BookThug (fall 2011).


And?What better way to spend a Saturday night?

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