The Dynamics of Contemporary Romanian Poetry. Poetry Festivals & Workshops. The Telciu Poetry Workshop: A Case Study
The present article is a fragment from a larger study interested not only in contemporary Romanian poetry as such, but also in the cultural phenomena that calibrate the metabolism of Romanian poetry – namely poetry festivals and workshops, as well as any other vector organizing the dynamics of contemporary Romanian poetry. The relevance of the said vector is manifold: on the one hand, studying it helps one in forming an overview of the dominant and emergent poetic trends; on the other hand, one can more effectively compare the networks of poetry festivals and workshops from Romania with the similar Western (and world) festivals and workshops and identify the means for integrating Romanian semi-peripheral literature within the larger metabolism of Western (and world) literature. The case study of this article is represented by the Telciu poetry workshop, as it is a trans-generational workshop and conveys a larger and more significant vista on the general dynamics of contemporary Romanian poetry.
Keywords: semi-peripheral literature, world literature, contemporary Romanian poetry, poetry festivals and workshops,
the Telciu poetry workshop
