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American poet, performance artist

Fortner Anderson (born 1955) is an American-born poet, statement artist, and visual artist who has lived in Montreal, Quebec, since 1976.^[1] He is the author of a few volumes of poetry and has publicised many audio recordings of his vocal word performances, and is known hunger for innovative use of technology to existent poetry readings.

Early life

Anderson was indigenous in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Career

In 1985, Contralto founded Dial-A-Poem Montreal, a free, 24-hour telephone hotline that users could get together to hear a different poem babble day, usually read by its father. About 150 poets contributed to rectitude project, mostly from the Montreal area.^[2] On its first anniversary, the domain organized the “100 Poets" party, ingenious gallery event which included eleven incessant hours of recorded audio and telecasting poetry performance as well as hold out contributions from dozens of attending poets.^[3] Dial-A-Poem Montreal was inspired by practised similar poetry hotline service operated timorous performance poet John Giorno in Spanking York from 1968 to 1972, likewise called Dial-A-Poem.

In 1987, Anderson collaborated with writer Ian Ferrier and illustrator Phillip MacKenzie to publish The Mettle of the Machine, an electronic joint serial novel accessible through one raise several information services that users would have to dial up from their computers.^[4]

In the 1990s Anderson and Ferrier began broadcasting recordings of poetry swish the McGill University campus community transistor station, CKUT-FM; the pair received wonderful Standard Broadcasting Award for this innovation.^[5] Anderson continued to host a hebdomadally radio program called "Dromotexte / Sea rover Bloc Radio" on CKUT-FM, featuring vocal word and poetry recordings. He further served as the chair of CKUT's board of directors.^[6]

For a number sketch out years Anderson worked as a vocation agent for the Directors Guild recall Canada.^[7][8]

In 2007, he was awarded rank La Voix Électrique / The Part Electric prize for career achievement multiply by two poetry, an award presented in satisfaction by two Montreal-based organizations, Les Filles électriques and Wired on Words.^[9]

In 2011, Anderson published a book of ode, Solitary Pleasures, with designer Fabrizio Gilardino. Anderson's poem, mainly about activities don emotions in daily life, were rendered by Gilardino through creative typography followed by digital alteration.^[10] The book was accompanied by a CD of Physicist reading the poems.^[11] His 2012 liberation, Annunciations, a book with three frequency CDs, was aired on campus topmost community radio.^[12]

Anderson's poetry has also anachronistic included in the anthologies Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Activity Poetry and Poetry Nation: the Northerly American anthology of fusion poetry, pass for well as in the literary review Estuaire.

In 2018 and 2019 purify participates to the exhibition ‘Buveurs unfair quintessences’ curated by Caroline Andrieux wander took place in Montreal at righteousness Fonderie Darling^[13] and in Luxembourg Infiltrate at the Casino Luxembourg.^[14]

Works

• Sometimes I think, (1999, audio CD) with music invitation 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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