Tara Skurtu
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Forthcoming Book: Faith Farm (March 16, 2027, @unboundedition.bsky.social). CEASEFIRE NOW FREE PALESTINE. 🍉 🖕🧊
Join us online on August 2 for our next Craft Lab: “Demystifying the Volta & Writing Towards Transformation” w/ Omotara James. We’ll explore how to write toward transformation when we are not yet certain what waits on the other side of our own journeys. brooklynpoets.org/events/all/d...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore punctuation, brevity, verse, and the bodily in these workshops with Tara Skurtu, grace (ge) gilbert, dawn lonsinger, and Joshua Mehigan that have deadlines this week ⏳ brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
🎉PUB DATE ANNOUNCEMENT🎉 FAITH FARM comes out March 16, 2027 with @unboundedition.bsky.social!
Tara Skurtu@taraskurtu.bsky.social · 3w agoMy book FAITH FARM & I are overflowing w/ gratitude no words can express. Siri Hustvedt, thank you for your abundant generosity, for entering the path of these poems w/ such care & attention, for your focused time & effort reading my words, writing yours. Out 3/16/27 w/ @unboundedition.bsky.social!
🎉PUB DATE ANNOUNCEMENT🎉 FAITH FARM comes out March 16, 2027 with @unboundedition.bsky.social!
Tara Skurtu@taraskurtu.bsky.social · 3w agoMy book FAITH FARM & I are overflowing w/ gratitude no words can express. Siri Hustvedt, thank you for your abundant generosity, for entering the path of these poems w/ such care & attention, for your focused time & effort reading my words, writing yours. Out 3/16/27 w/ @unboundedition.bsky.social!
My book FAITH FARM & I are overflowing w/ gratitude no words can express. Siri Hustvedt, thank you for your abundant generosity, for entering the path of these poems w/ such care & attention, for your focused time & effort reading my words, writing yours. Out 3/16/27 w/ @unboundedition.bsky.social!
Punctuation can be a great challenge, and it can make or break a poem. If you find yourself questioning which punctuation marks to use, why to use them, and when and where they go, this in-person, two-session workshop with Tara Skurtu is for you. buff.ly/BoGQ4fi
Explore punctuation, purpose, short verse, and the body with Tara Skurtu, grace (ge) gilbert, dawn lonsinger & Joshua Mehigan in these workshops starting in July! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
Today, all day!
Brooklyn Poets@brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin us on June 20 as we prepare to meet the longest day of the year with a chorus of poetry. We'll congregate in the breathtaking sanctuary of St. Ann's as over 50 poets remind us of the ability of language to transcend, resist, and most importantly, connect. brooklynpoets.org/events/celeb...
“Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? Why are the senators sitting there without legislating? Because the barbarians are coming today.” —C. P. Cavafy, from the timely poem “Waiting for the Barbarians": www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/...
Waiting for the Barbarians
Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians…
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Lisa Hiton (@lhiton.bsky.social) will now be leading our Yawp workshop this Friday, we hope to see you there! Get tickets: events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...
Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: David Kaufmann on "THIS IS WHAT I MEAN" from Money is the Muse of Contrition published by Dos Madres Press Read here: poems.com/poem/this-is...
THIS IS WHAT I MEAN
And I’ll continue harrowing my finest Effects, I’ll ride a livid Rash of property, I’ll license out My very lives.
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This Friday!
Brooklyn Poets@brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin us Friday June 12, for our next Yawp, featuring poet Tara Skurtu! Skurtu will lead a workshop on “One Surprising Sentence,” drawn from her upcoming two-session workshop for Brooklyn Poets this summer. events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...
Join us on June 20 as we prepare to meet the longest day of the year with a chorus of poetry. We'll congregate in the breathtaking sanctuary of St. Ann's as over 50 poets remind us of the ability of language to transcend, resist, and most importantly, connect. brooklynpoets.org/events/celeb...
Join us Friday June 12, for our next Yawp, featuring poet Tara Skurtu! Skurtu will lead a workshop on “One Surprising Sentence,” drawn from her upcoming two-session workshop for Brooklyn Poets this summer. events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...
Congrats to Misha Ra, whose new piece of flash nonfiction, "Adjustments," is in Midway Journal! midwayjournal.com/adjustments/
Adjustments
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Today I’m many more years older than this Key West baby, and I’m grateful to be where I am and lucky to have the friends/family I’ve found in this life.
What’s a poem you return to over the years and feel in new ways?
In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.
Congrats to Anna Szilagyi, whose poem "On Halloween I Dress Up as the First Lesbian Real Housewife of New York" is in Vagabond City Lit: vagabondcitylit.com/2026/04/20/o...
On Halloween I Dress Up as the First Lesbian Real Housewife of New York by Anna Szilagyi
Jenna Lyons wears a white button-down openalmost to her navel, a black blazer, and blue jeans.I double-sided tape my borrowed shirt along my chest,attempt to slick my bangs into her signature bun.B…
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“I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary.” —Louise Glück
Early registration is now open for our summer workshops, online and in-person, ft. Angel Nafis, K. Iver, Robert Wood Lynn, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb & more! Through June 14, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
Early registration is open for my new summer poetry workshop at @brooklynpoets.bsky.social! 🖋️✨ What the—“;.,-’(!)....—?”: Punctuating Your Poems Just Right Reserve your spot: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
What the—“;.,-’(!)....—?”: Punctuating Your Poems Just Right — Brooklyn Poets
Punctuation can be a great challenge, and it can make or break a poem. If you find yourself questioning which punctuation marks to use, why to use them, and when and where they go, this in-person, two...
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Brooklyn Poets@brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 2mo agoEarly registration is now open for our summer workshops, online and in-person, ft. Angel Nafis, K. Iver, Robert Wood Lynn, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb & more! Through June 14, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.