Geof HuthThe FamilyGeof Huth was born in Burlingame, CA, and has lived in California, Portugal, Canada, the District of Columbia, Barbados, Bolivia, Ghana, Morocco, Tennessee, Somalia, and Germany, and New York. He learned to read and write Portuguese and German before English, but eventually lost both those languages. He married Nancy Frye in 1984, and they have two children: Erin, born 1984; and Timothy, born 1989. Because of his interest in the unexamined edges of language, he documented the family wordways of this family and the families of his and his wife's youth in Familiar Words: How We Speak Alone Together (pdqb: Schenectady, NY, 1996).The PoetGeof Huth is a writer in many forms, but has a particular interest in visual poetry and the visual presentation of the written word. He has published a number of chapbooks, including Analphabet (Burning Press: Lakewood, OH, 1993), Dachau: afterwards (IZEN: Athens, OH, 1995), The Dreams of the Fishwife (Xexoxial Editions: Madison, WI, 1989), ghostlight (Runaway Spoon Press: Port Charlotte, FL, 1990), Peristyle (emPo Publications: Seattle, 1989), To a Small Stream of Water (or Ditch) (Standing Stones: Old Hickory, TN, 1992), vision: exterpreting the phaistos disc (dbqp: Schenectady, NY, 2002), and wreadings (Runaway Spoon Press: Port Charlotte, FL, 1987). He has published poetry and other writing in over 150 journals in eight countries. The Publisher Geof Huth founded the micropress dbqp in Horseheads, New York, in 1987, and this press has followed him as he has moved across the state of New York. dbqp has focused on publishing visual and conceptual poetry and other creative explorations of language and meaning. The output of dbqp (and his visual poetry) has been exhibited in about a dozen exhibits in six countries.
