Răzvan Ţupa

Răzvan Ţupa (born 1975) is a Romanian poet. His first book Fetis won the 2002 Mihai Eminescu First Book in Poetry National Award.^[1]

Ţupa was born in Brăila and raised in Bucharest. He is a graduate of International Academy for Study of Religions and Culture History in Bucharest. Tupa was included in No Longer Poetry: New Romanian Poetry an anthology edited in English by Heaventree Press, United Kingdom.^[2] In 2012, his poetry was selected for "The Vanishing Point that Whistles", an anthology of contemporary Romanian poetry published by Talisman House in U.S..^[3]

He was considered among the poets of the so called The "2000" Generation in Romania. .^[4]

His second book of poetry included a CD with audio versions of his poetry. In 2005 and 2006 he recorded video poetry.^[5] In 2009, Razvan Tupa produced an one hour feature film presenting 24 young Romanian poets. "Poetry. the power" was shown in Bucharest, Berlin, Chishinev and Prague.^[6]

He is the founding editor of the poetry magazine Versus/Versum. He used to be the editor of film section of Time Out Bucharest magazine.^[7] In 2005 he launched Poetics of the Quotidian,^[8] a series of literary meetings in Club A in Bucharest.

His poems have appeared in the literary journals România Literară, Litere and others. He read his poetry and attended different readings in Paris, Rome, Prague, Bratislava, New York and Berlin.^[9] He lives in Bucharest.

Bibliography

• Fetiş (Fetish) (2001)
• Fetiş - O carte românească a plăcerii (Fetish - a Romanian Book of Pleasure) (2003)
• Corpuri Româneşti (Romanian bodies) (2005)
• Poetic. Cerul din Delft si alte Corpuri Româneşti (Poetic. The Sky in Delft and other Romanian bodies) (2011)

Notes

1. ^ Presentation of the poet at Writers.net
2. ^ The presentation of the British anthology by David Morley
3. ^ The press release of the American anthology of Romanian poetry
4. ^ An essay on Romanian new poetry published on Tupa's blog in English
5. ^ Video poems by Tupa on Youtube
6. ^ The announcement for Prague and Berlin presentation of the movie was on Romanian bodies blog
7. ^ Time Out Bucharest site
8. ^ Poetics of the Quotidian blog
9. ^ Ars Poetica Festival introducing Razvan Tupa