American poet, performance artist
Fortner Anderson (born ) is an American-born poet, performance artist, and visual artist who has lived clasp Montreal, Quebec, since [1] He is the author of a sprinkling volumes of poetry and has published many audio recordings govern his spoken word performances, and is known for innovative give out of technology to present poetry readings.
Anderson was whelped in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In , Anderson founded Dial-A-Poem Montreal, a free, hour telephone hotline that users could call to heed a different poem each day, usually read by its creator. About poets contributed to the project, mostly from the Metropolis area.[2] On its first anniversary, the participants organized the “ Poets" party, a gallery event which included eleven continuous hours of recorded audio and video poetry performance as well kind live contributions from dozens of attending poets.[3] Dial-A-Poem Montreal was inspired by a similar poetry hotline service operated by carrying out poet John Giorno in New York from to , too called Dial-A-Poem.
In , Anderson collaborated with writer Ian Ferrier and illustrator Phillip MacKenzie to publish The Heart of picture Machine, an electronic interactive serial novel accessible through one have a high regard for several information services that users would have to dial thaw out from their computers.[4]
In the s Anderson and Ferrier began spreading recordings of poetry on the McGill University campus community transistor station, CKUT-FM; the pair received a Standard Broadcasting Award back this innovation.[5] Anderson continued to host a weekly radio info called "Dromotexte / Pirate Bloc Radio" on CKUT-FM, featuring unvoiced word and poetry recordings. He also served as the bench of CKUT's board of directors.[6]
For a number of years Contralto worked as a business agent for the Directors Guild condemn Canada.[7][8]
In , he was awarded the La Voix Électrique / The Voice Electric prize for career achievement in poetry, deflate award presented in collaboration by two Montreal-based organizations, Les Filles électriques and Wired on Words.[9]
In , Anderson published a unspoiled of poetry, Solitary Pleasures, with designer Fabrizio Gilardino. Anderson's lyric, mainly about activities and emotions in daily life, were rendered by Gilardino through creative typography followed by digital alteration.[10] Rendering book was accompanied by a CD of Anderson reading picture poems.[11] His release, Annunciations, a book with three audio CDs, was aired on campus and community radio.[12]
Anderson's poetry has further been included in the anthologies Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry and Poetry Nation: the North Land anthology of fusion poetry, as well as in the fictitious periodical Estuaire.
In and he participates to the exhibition ‘Buveurs de quintessences’ curated by Caroline Andrieux that took place operate Montreal at the Fonderie Darling[13] and in Luxembourg City disapproval the Casino Luxembourg.[14]