The hand-made card for Ruth Sackner's 67th birthday is based on Shaker furniture and Marvin Sackner's medical platform that shakes the patient releasing nitric oxide. Clippings written and collaged by Marcia Teichner read, "Notice to our patrons - Sister Ruth Sackner - First Lady of the Shaker Table - Celebrates Birthday! We are thankful for you, Sister and we send you love from the community." Also pictured is Marvin Sackner behind a Shaker table. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a computer greeting card for Ruth's 69th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Trinkewitz attached two panels of found papers and papercards from magazines, books and advertisements etc., cut to the size of match book covers, to a board collaged with an undecipherable, linear fragmented text with bold typefaces. These elements include images of Schwitters, Trinkewitz, Kolar, beautiful women, envelopes, receipts, maps, magazine pages, stamps etc. The verso has a signature dated 1984 at the Visual Poetry Conference in Saarbruchen, Germany. A photocopied group photographic portrait depicts Ruth and Marvin Sackner among poets at a visual poetry conference held in Sarrbrucken, West Germany in 1984. This work was exhibited in the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, in January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue mentions that Ferrando's work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue lists curry's contributions to works by others. He includes a sound poem with made-up language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue lists curry's contributions to periodicals. He includes a few visuals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Stored in C shelf location. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition was conceived on an original idea by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and curated by Andrea Rosen. The exhibition included the works of 341 artists and poets. Several works were lent by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue was a gift of Andrea Rosen and is a checklist of the exhibition including diagrams of the placement of the pictures in the gallery and an artist list index. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue mentions that the Sackner Archive holds Miglietta's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes a long illustrated interview of Jean-Pierre Nadau as well as a photograph of Paris Big Bang installed in Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris where the Sackners initially saw the work that they subsequently purchased for the Archive. Another photograph depicts the working space in his studio/house where the Sackners visited him. Stored with the Nadau material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an illustrated review of Tom Phillips' exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art. All works in the exhibition were from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a review of the poetic works of the husband and wife team of Duhamel & Carbo and frequent collaborators as well as the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This symposium was subtitled "Ricerche verbovisuali delle seconde avanguardie tra atttualita e tradizione and presented at the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Ruth and Marvin Sackner were invited to this symposium at MART where Marvin presented "The Collector as Performer." The lecture was translated into Italian by Maria Francescotti. A photograph of the Sackners appears on page 224. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive is described and photographed in the final chapter of the book. The Sackners are also mentioned on the flyleaf of the dust jacket. The duplicate copy is accompanied by a letter from Deidi Von Schwaewen, the photographer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners are photographed in the Archive gallery space in an article entitled, "Miami's Top Collectors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition, curated by Patrick Murphy, consisted of works loaned by the Sackner Archive, Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz, Martin Margulies, and William & Phyliss Mack. The artists from the Sackner Archive consisted of Tom Phillips, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Genevieve Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners were invited to a televised conference for German TV in which the definitions of visual and concrete poetry were discussed in German that lasted hours with no definitive conclusions. The concluding respondent in the conference, Wolfgang Schmidt, gave a wink to the Sackners and replied to the question "What is Visual Poetry" with I...DON'T....KNOW! The event included an exhibition and poetic performances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners are mentioned as holding a Vitali photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.