Tara Skurtu

'If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.'

from 'Art Objects' by Jeanette Winterson

Spots are filling for my very first online workshop! Reserve yours at the link below.

Congrats, Susan! Can’t wait to read this. ❤️

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I have a new flash fiction story published, called Fault Lines, in the South Florida Poetry Journal. Workshopped with @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @kathyfish.bsky.social, & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social. (It was a slow birth!) www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-38-aug...

I love you, love you, love you,
sad as you are, O world.

—Adelia Prado

ICYMI: New Poem 🖤

ONLINE October 5-12 Sundays, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM ET Register by September 28th Brooklyn Poets Writing The Poems You Need To Write with Tara Skurtu "You should write that," people say to us more than we can count. But the honest, truthful, at-stake writing that matters most comes from inner need, not the outer shoulds of what others want. In this online, generative two-session workshop we'll rediscover how to write-and keep writing-what we need to write.

In response to your requests for an online poetry course so people in different time zones can join, I’m teaching my very first online course this fall—at @brooklynpoets.bsky.social!

Writing The Poems You Need To Write
Sun Oct 5 & 12
10:30 AM-1:30 PM ET

Register:
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Death Machine - Plume DEATH MACHINE   because the dead couldn’t speak the people spoke people were dying and wanted to live death lived the living were dying and those who witnessed the death of a people spoke didn’t speak...

“and those who witnessed

spoke didn’t speak

when they needed”

Poem in the new issue of Plume:
plumepoetry.com/death-machine/

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Early registration is now open for our fall workshops, online and in-person, ft. Angel Nafis, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social & more! Through August 17, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Death Machine - Plume DEATH MACHINE   because the dead couldn’t speak the people spoke people were dying and wanted to live death lived the living were dying and those who witnessed the death of a people spoke didn’t speak...

“and those who witnessed

spoke didn’t speak

when they needed”

Poem in the new issue of Plume:
plumepoetry.com/death-machine/

Death Machine - Plume DEATH MACHINE   because the dead couldn’t speak the people spoke people were dying and wanted to live death lived the living were dying and those who witnessed the death of a people spoke didn’t speak...

I'm grateful to the editors at Plume for publishing my poem (w/ audio) today. In the times for which there are no words, our words matter most. Your voice matters, your art matters, protest & dissent matter. Keep speaking up. Ceasefire Now. Free Palestine!
plumepoetry.com/death-machine/

Thank you!

I have a poem coming out this fall that was rejected over 100 times across three years—stay! the! course!

Congrats! ❤️

Death Machine - Plume DEATH MACHINE   because the dead couldn’t speak the people spoke people were dying and wanted to live death lived the living were dying and those who witnessed the death of a people spoke didn’t speak...

And it's here! plumepoetry.com/death-machine/

Death Machine - Plume DEATH MACHINE   because the dead couldn’t speak the people spoke people were dying and wanted to live death lived the living were dying and those who witnessed the death of a people spoke didn’t speak...

And it's here!
plumepoetry.com/death-machine/

Death Machine - Plume DEATH MACHINE   because the dead couldn’t speak the people spoke people were dying and wanted to live death lived the living were dying and those who witnessed the death of a people spoke didn’t speak...

I'm grateful to the editors at Plume for publishing my poem (w/ audio) today. In the times for which there are no words, our words matter most. Your voice matters, your art matters, protest & dissent matter. Keep speaking up. Ceasefire Now. Free Palestine!
plumepoetry.com/death-machine/

I call this the "everything is everything" problem, to borrow from the genius Lauryn Hill.

The difficulty with writing anything about anything is that any given thing, on closer inspection, appears to be connected to every thing, and now you’ve gone from writing about anything to writing about everything 😅

This was so clearly part of their agenda. Absolutely awful.

There will be audio too. The poem is written to be read different ways.

For the evening crowd: my new essay at Lithub. I hope you’ll read it.

Stay tuned for a new poem coming out tomorrow in Plume! I've been waiting since 2023 to share it with you all.

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Does anyone know how to successfully block already-blocked-many-times-for-more-than-a-decade emails from grifter Shaun King?

Stay tuned for a new poem coming out tomorrow in Plume! I've been waiting since 2023 to share it with you all.

is the poem i'm working on bad or do i dislike it at the moment or am i just tired of working on it

Congrats!

I’ve been submitting my poem “Death Machine” and receiving rejections since late 2023, and I’m relieved to say it’ll be published next Friday in Plume.

If you’re receiving rejections for a poem you believe in, keep believing, keep sending.

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