A NEW VIETNAMESE AVANT- GARDE

Jerome Rothenberg's blog Poems and Poetics has recently hosted a number of young absolutely formidable Vietnamese poets in the exquisite translation of Jack J. Huynh. Some of these poets also contribute to the ongoing MARGENTO graph-poem. They were posted on JR's blog in three installments, HERE, HERE, and HERE

NOMADOSOPHY - Downtown ADELAIDE

The piper at the gates of dawn... http://nomadosophy.blogspot.com/2012/04/downtown-adelaide-australia.html

POESIS INTERNATIONAL no 8 - special feature O NIMIGEAN

A wonderful issue with a wonderful special feature: poet O. Nimigean
Poesis International also contains an essay by CT: "Towards a Poetics of the Graph Poem"
Read it HERE !!!

CALJOPO Reviews OF GENTLE WOLVES

A review in CalJoPo by young poet, critic, and translator Gina Barnard:

Martin Woodside’s new anthology of Romanian translations, Of Gentle Wolves, adds much to the landscape of contemporary English language poetry. Woodside, in his translator’s note, claims that “contemporary Romanian poets work largely in obscurity and are often dismissed as a marginal, even irrelevant, group;” he argues, however, that these Romanian poets are... READ MORE

VIDEOS OF THE ROTHENBERG / MARGENTO READING IN SAIGON

Jerome Rothenberg

Chris Tanasescu

Rothenberg & Tanasescu in Saigon - the photo chronicle

Rothenberg while being introduced to the numerous Vietnamese audience by Alec Schachner.

And here he goes!

While performing "Poland 1931".

"That Dada Strain" in Alec Schachner's Vietnamese translation.

"Biker in Saigon"

"Biker in Saigon" in Vietnamese translation by awesome Van Tien.

Videos soon.

Rothenberg & Tanasescu Poetry Reading