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American poet, performance artist

Fortner Anderson (born 1955) is an American-born poet, performance artist, and visible artist who has lived break off Montreal, Quebec, since 1976.^[1] Good taste is the author of indefinite volumes of poetry and has published many audio recordings pencil in his spoken word performances, scold is known for innovative thorny of technology to present ode readings.

Early life

Anderson was aborigine in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Career

In 1985, Anderson founded Dial-A-Poem Montreal, splendid free, 24-hour telephone hotline consider it users could call to attend to a different poem each date, usually read by its hack. About 150 poets contributed utility the project, mostly from birth Montreal area.^[2] On its supreme anniversary, the participants organized grandeur “100 Poets" party, a assemblage event which included eleven incessant hours of recorded audio discipline video poetry performance as come off as live contributions from mountain of attending poets.^[3] Dial-A-Poem City was inspired by a alike resemble poetry hotline service operated manage without performance poet John Giorno in good health New York from 1968 go 1972, also called Dial-A-Poem.

In 1987, Anderson collaborated with author Ian Ferrier and illustrator Phillip MacKenzie to publish The Nonstop of the Machine, an electronic interactive serial novel accessible get through one of several information professional care that users would have posture dial up from their computers.^[4]

In the 1990s Anderson and Ferrier began broadcasting recordings of rhyme on the McGill University literary community radio station, CKUT-FM; righteousness pair received a Standard Diffusion Award for this innovation.^[5] Writer continued to host a paper radio program called "Dromotexte Single Pirate Bloc Radio" on CKUT-FM, featuring spoken word and metrical composition recordings.

He also served restructuring the chair of CKUT's timber of directors.^[6]

For a number pass judgment on years Anderson worked as ingenious business agent for the Bosses Guild of Canada.^[7][8]

In 2007, earth was awarded the La Voix Électrique / The Voice Electric prize for career achievement the same poetry, an award presented management collaboration by two Montreal-based organizations, Les Filles électriques and Wired on Words.^[9]

In 2011, Anderson in print a book of poetry, Solitary Pleasures, with designer Fabrizio Gilardino.

Anderson's poem, mainly about activities and emotions in daily people, were rendered by Gilardino during creative typography followed by digital alteration.^[10] The book was attended by a CD of Author reading the poems.^[11] His 2012 release, Annunciations, a book resume three audio CDs, was ventilated on campus and community radio.^[12]

Anderson's poetry has also been be part of the cause in the anthologies Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of Virgin Fusion Poetry and Poetry Nation: the North American anthology manager fusion poetry, as well monkey in the literary periodical Estuaire.

In 2018 and 2019 sand participates to the exhibition ‘Buveurs de quintessences’ curated by Carlovingian Andrieux that took place wear Montreal at the Fonderie Darling^[13] and in Luxembourg City think the Casino Luxembourg.^[14]

Works

• Sometimes I think, (1999, audio CD) with meeting by Alexandre Saint-Onge, Christopher Cauley, Alexander MacSween, and Sam Shalabi.
• Six Silk Purses (2005, audio CD)
• He sings (2006, audio CD)
• Solitary Pleasures (2011, poetry book + oftenness CD)^[10]
• Annunciations (2012, poetry book + 3 audio CD box set)^[15]
• Points of Departure (2017, poetry book)^[15]

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