Mallarmargens
Poetry and contemporary art magazine Mallarmargens (founded by poets Marceli Andresa Becker and Wesley Peres) is online since May 2012. It aims to bring together national and international contemporary poetry diversity. The idea is to provide a friendly environment for exchanging influences and literary dialogue among authors, as well as assure visibility and facilitate the contact with editorial boards. With over 100 mallarmagos (permanent authors) and approximately 300 mallarmigos (authors, magazines and cultural spaces), Mallarmargens is updated daily, in order to reach dynamism and interaction. It is intended to become a wide virtual arena, so as to achieve, even if not completely, the project of an infinite book as proposed by Mallarmé.
All updates are catalogued in annual volumes, grouped in monthly editions and classified in sections: Poetry, Prose, Essays, Translations, Gallery, Music library, Video library and News. The team is formed by primarily readers and the editorial board prizes both newcomer and experienced authors. There is an equivalent distribution of the contents, in order to avoid prioritizing certain authors rather than others and, due to the high diversity and periodicity (each author is responsible for its content publication), the option it was for a collective blog format, with dynamic visualization. The user-reader is able to randomly navigate through the contents, like a roll of dices. “Prismatic subdivisions of the ideas” prevails, as suggested by Mallarmé when he defined his method of poetical composition, breaking the linear sense of reading: “A roll of dices will never abolish chance”. At last, Mallarmargens’ ideas (equalizing newcomer and experienced authors) and its dynamic disposition are inspired by Mallarmé’s dream of a free book, due to the suggestion of an instant change hand made by the author (blog user), who is both author and reader at once. The dynamic links offer the “free navigation”, the “go your own way”.
