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Anne Cammon
A writer of poetry, fiction, essays and reviews, Anne Cammon Producing Art Waves, Anne uses an experimental format to focus on original material from a range of artists. She broadcasts readings of poetry and fiction alongside in-studio performances of dramatic works, brief discussions with authors about their creative process, and electronic music selections. Her choreography is noticeable for its sense of pacing and ability to present abstract literary and musical material in an entertaining and accessible fashion. She has arranged shows on various themes, including all-poetry and all-fiction shows, cross-over artists, experiments in sound-design, rock-poetry, Catalonian Poets and Writers, and many others. She has also featured various literary presses and magazines including Rattapallax, Watchword, The First Line and Mipoesias. A long-time resident of the Himachal Pradesh region of India, Anne is also fond of presenting musical and poetic material related to India and the Middle East. In her journalistic radio work for Arts and Answers, Anne interviews artists, directors, writers and composers arts on events taking place in New York City, and their work at large. Guests on her show have ranged from Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winners to underground spoken word legends and little-known writers and composers. Her mission is to cultivate an appetite for the arts through performance and discussion, bringing emerging and established artists to light while culturally revitalizing the place of literature. Anne has recently collaborated with the composer Robert Voisey on a text-sound adaptation of poems from her collection, India Songs. The works will be performed at Bowery Poetry Club and Under St. Mark’s Theater in New York City this January, and will be released on the compilation CD "Beauty keeps laying its sharp knife against me."
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