tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34195765775508356832026-10-14T02:56:09.478-07:00http://christanasescu.blogspot.com/Margento: on text, image, and sound.Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-32049162303661482622017-06-06T12:23:00.001-07:002017-06-06T12:23:06.526-07:00POETRYARTEXCHANGE Live in London--Podcast, Video, and Photos Steve Rushton & MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu) performing on the Hello Goodbye Show on Radio Resonance, London, UK Listen to the podcast HERE!!! POETRYARTEXCHANGE Live at Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK Watch a snippet on youtube HERE!!! Pics from the same gig: Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-536182664253155502017-05-22T11:48:00.000-07:002017-05-23T07:52:26.605-07:00poetryartexchange book release, radio sessions, performances, and exhibitions in London & Birmingham "What a show!  Nine writers from two cultures, Romania and the UK, working their brand-new, poly-vocal invention.  As one of the poets says, 'It’s an attempt at establishing.'  It establishes, and powerfully invigorates, so many aesthetics and colours, so many flavors and voices—cases, fonts, songs, diatribes, tracts, interiors and pluralities.  This book is dynamic—as in Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-70355884600506344992016-12-15T13:40:00.000-08:002016-12-20T12:51:10.046-08:00Launch of Moods with Margento and Martin Woodside in New York CityJoin us for our launch of Moods & Women & Men & Once Again Moods: An Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Erotic Poetry with MARGENTO and Martin Woodside this Friday at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn and other locations in Manhattan this week! More information about the book: http://calypsoeditions.org/title/Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-54533284078550572332016-08-03T04:25:00.000-07:002016-09-02T07:08:41.068-07:00ASYMPTOTE Summer Issue feat SERBAN FOARTA       Editor's Note   Ready to dive into our Summer 2016 edition? We have many rich pickings from the underwater world of translation (video trailer here), including: memoirs of childhood submerged in ghosts and television; in-depth interviews with Paul Celan translator Pierre Joris and Sawako Nakayasu, winner of the 2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; ourChris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-68380237829822114332016-06-28T08:29:00.000-07:002016-06-28T08:33:22.141-07:00MARGENTO @ CROWD Omnibus Reading Tour The CROWD OMNIBUS is a literary tour from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea   ·     over 100 writers from 37 countries ·     12 weeks on a bus (May to August) ·     through 14 European countries with over 50 stops ·     over 30 local partners ·     dozens of readings, performancesChris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-91392872897228906202016-05-03T01:55:00.000-07:002016-05-06T11:38:15.920-07:00GELLU NAUM Poem in PLUME's Newsletter Introduced by MARGENTO; translated by MARGENTO and Martin WOODSIDE "Silo" by Randi Ward from the newsletter signed by Plume EiC Daniel Lawless: May, 2016    Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 58 May– and the cruelty this time not of the month even metaphorically but lying instead in the fact of what I must lay at Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-1535777424440987332016-03-29T01:08:00.001-07:002016-03-29T01:08:38.722-07:00Simona POPESCU Poem in PLUME trans MARGENTO EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM SIMONA POPESCU translation: MARGENTO Sweet ephebe, dear good friend, shall I compare thee to what? There’s nothing to be measured against your cleanly beauty and no filly could in any way compete with you. That’s why I find to be around you while all you do is loaf in your own world laughing and waving Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-64048236970528795402016-02-11T09:08:00.002-08:002016-02-11T09:08:47.728-08:00Crowdsourcing a Poet--MARGENTO on Musina (Initially published on Asymptote's blog here) "...I asked a number of significant writers for an input on the place of this writer in our literature..." Have you ever thought of starting a poetry crowdsourcing? While contemplating writing on Alexandru Muşina’s magnetic personality (as a tie in to Ruxandra Cesereanu’s article in our July issue), the idea presented itself to me as theChris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-51246208672369887432016-01-18T08:19:00.000-08:002016-01-18T08:19:09.713-08:00ASYMPTOTE Fortnightly Air Mail feat. MARGENTO--"New Year, New Resolutions" A Happy New Year to all our readers! To the 56 of you who've contributed $5,035 to our mini-Indiegogo campaign, THANK YOU for giving our New Year an auspicious start. We'll be able to celebrate our milestone fifth anniversary in at least ten global cities—maybe even a city in which you live. Stay tuned for the event announcements! Your Itinerary Today Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-38418572015190488452015-12-19T07:57:00.002-08:002015-12-19T07:57:40.814-08:00New Issue of YOU ARE HERE Featuring a MARGENTO PoemYOU ARE HERE  [follow the hyperlink to the publication's website and/or find below the current issue's coordinates] Read issue XVIII of You Are Here HERE!!!Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-44728421795282717822015-11-19T02:05:00.000-08:002015-11-19T02:05:11.329-08:00ASYMPTOTE International Translation Contest--CLOSE APPROXIMATIONS Fantastic news for emerging translators all over the world: 'Close Approximations,' Asymptote’s hugely popular translation contest, is back! Open to translators at the beginning of their careers, this contest invites translations in three genres: poetry, fiction, and—a new category this year—literary nonfiction. The winner and runner-up of each category will walk away with 1,000 USD Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-76227315320351274772015-10-13T13:21:00.003-07:002015-10-13T13:21:51.844-07:00NICOLAE COANDE--Poem in PLUME THE BRIDGE by Nicolae Coande (trans. by MARGENTO, Martin Woodside, & Lia Elena Boangiu) The most beautiful Russian girl in the world lives in Germany tucked in a safe with a Cyrillic cipher. The Germans still bang their heads against a wall over it. Even so, her hands weave a bridge to me, her blue eyes... MORE HERE Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-24114978046177840612015-09-10T12:36:00.000-07:002015-09-10T12:42:15.705-07:00POESIS INTERNATIONAL no 15 Poesis International continues with tireless and versatile poet, critic, and translator Claudiu Komartin at the helm as Editor in Chief, coming up with yet another impressive issue featuring translations from or criticism on luminaries like Ezra Pound, Mike Strand, Mariana Marin, O.Nimigean, Fady Joudah, and Aurel Pantea, and contributions from (or on) established writers such as Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-81071001391026529382015-07-15T15:43:00.000-07:002015-07-15T15:43:06.534-07:00ASYMPTOTE Mega-Summer Issue Also including a multilingual poem by Mircea Cartarescu and an essay by Ruxandra Cesereanu exploring a possible parallel between Alexandru Musina's "Budila Express" and Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" HEREChris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-38786361565028762482015-06-21T05:08:00.002-07:002015-06-21T05:08:48.135-07:00MARGENTO & Inkpen Paper @ New Directions in the Humanities Conference 2015 Chris Tanasescu (MARGENTO) & Diana Inkpen: “Poetry Computational Graphs: Applying Graph Theory in Poetry” [this paper is part of the ongoing Graph Poem project] Excerpt: … As we have already seen is the case of the previous publication in poetry computational analysis, collecting data and the features of the databases analyzed are more intimately related to the specifics and Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-81544856244066951052015-05-23T00:01:00.000-07:002015-05-23T00:11:38.555-07:00MARGENTO @ FLAIRS-28: Multilabel Subject-based Classification of Poetry Multilabel Subject-based Classification of Poetry Andres Lou, Diana Inkpen and Chris Tanasescu (MARGENTO) [This paper is part of the larger ongoing MARGENTO project "The Graph Poem"] Abstract Oftentimes, the question “what is this poem about?” has no trivial answer, regardless of length, style, author, or context in which the poem is found. We propose a simple system of multi-label Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-7715435712954730232015-04-15T09:36:00.000-07:002015-04-15T09:36:13.204-07:00ASYMPTOTE RECEIVES THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY TRANSLATION INITIATIVE AWARD AT 2015 LONDON BOOK FAIR LONDON, UK: We are very proud to announce that Asymptote was today presented with the London Book Fair’s 2015 International Literary Translation Initiative Award. The prize is part of the International Excellence Awards, designed to showcase publishing innovation around the word, held in partnership with the UK Publishers Association. The award is presented to the organisation that the Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-68760431287447259852015-04-12T12:27:00.000-07:002015-04-25T12:29:39.843-07:00Grigore Negrescu (MARGENTO)--Self-portrait & Work Site                                           © Grigore Negrescu, 2015                                           © Grigore Negrescu, 2015Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-63897319876155017062015-03-20T03:37:00.002-07:002015-03-26T01:49:04.543-07:00STEAUA -- Album de Familie -- 29 de scriitori inclusiv MARGENTO Foto (c) Octavian Bour Trei jucării pentru toată lumea Trei jucării preferate cu care mă joc eu – și nu numai eu – de vreo douăzeci de ani, deci cam de la prima tinerețe/a doua copilărie, sunt: internetul, cartea și studioul. De fapt e o copilărie comună – internetul era încă la pubertate în 90 și–, cartea (lucrată pe calculator pentru tipografie) abia se năștea (cu năbădăi!Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-11703859701711395042015-02-18T15:50:00.000-08:002015-02-18T15:50:11.184-08:00Lou, Inkpen & MARGENTO Computational Poetry Paper Accepted to FLAIRS Conference The paper “Multilabel Subject-based Classifi cation of Poetry” by Andr es Lou, Diana Inkpen, and Chris T an asescu (MARGENTO) has been accepted to the 28th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society–FLAIRS–Conference; the paper is part of the ampler MARGENTO project Poetry Computational Graphs and the Graph Poem. Here is the abstract: Multilabel Subject-based Classi cation Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-75143916544291740272015-02-03T04:03:00.000-08:002015-02-03T04:06:02.372-08:00ASYMPTOTE Note on NAUM & FOARTA [A slightly shorter version of this note first appeared on Asymptote's blog HERE) “Eutychia” has been identified by Simona Popescu—poet, critic, and foremost authority on Romanian poet Gellu Naum’s (1915 – 2001) work and life—as the Naumian poem par excellence, not in the sense that all the rest of his huge oeuvre is contained in it, but as being one of the most comprehensive and emblematic Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-55860293675312511412015-01-01T07:17:00.000-08:002015-01-01T07:17:47.316-08:00David BAKER & MARGENTO Live @ Festival CUCA 2014 & DAVID BAKER LISTEN TO THE AUDIO CLIP HEREChris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-25703035104511307752014-12-01T11:51:00.001-08:002014-12-01T11:51:56.175-08:00EXPERIMENT-O New Issue Issue 7--to the frivolous interlopers (HERE!!!) Featuring Elizabeth Bertoldi, Volodymyr Bilyk, Selina Boan, Craig Calhoun, Ariel Gonzalez Losada, MARGENTO, a rawlings & Sachiko Murakami, sven staelens, Carol Stetser, Tom Walmsley and Liz Worth.Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-78616152202707226572014-10-21T07:56:00.000-07:002014-10-21T07:57:37.237-07:00ASYMPTOTE New Issue--Fall 2014 Now with MARGENTO as Editor-at-Large​ Welcome to our mythology edition! Catch our video trailer here. From the "kiss of death" Danish textbook representative Erik Langkjær shared with Flannery O'Connor—in an exclusive account sixty years after the fact—to the "synthetic saint" in Tedi López Mills' experimental poetry and the "divine fairy tale" in Shi Tiesheng's Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419576577550835683.post-11654433041221303732014-09-23T22:46:00.000-07:002014-09-23T22:46:40.389-07:00DAN GULEA on MARGENTO's NOMADOSOFIA/NOMADOSOPHY eul și personajele sale (nomadosofia) (initially publishedd by Dan Gulea on his own blog here) Experimentul Margento continuă cu Nomadosofia / Nomadosophy (2012), un poem ce înconjoară lumea alături de Chris & Raluca Tanasescu, un graf-poem la care participă toți ceilalți poeți care au format identitatea margentă, de la Hafiz și Robert Browning, la Frank Zappa sau Chris Tanasescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04737388938998557121noreply@blogger.com0