Tara Skurtu

Do you also have work (paid or unpaid) where you fix things and make them even stronger? What do you repair?

A perfect poem to read in a blizzard.

“Snow” by Mary Ruefle:
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An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Donate to Help Neveen and her family rebuild their lives, organized by Brittany Reeve Help Neveen and her family rebuild their lives Hello everyone! M… Brittany Reeve needs your support for Help Neveen and her family rebuild their lives

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MORNING LOVE POEM Dreamt last night I fed you, unknowingly, something you were allergic to. And you were gone, like that. You don't have even a single allergy, but still. The dream cracked. Cars nose-dived off snow banks into side streets. Sometimes dreams slip poison, make the living dead then alive again, twirling in an unfamiliar room. It's hard to say I need you enough. Today I did. Walked into your morning shower fully clothed. All the moments we stop ourselves just because we might feel embarrassed or impractical, or get wet.

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️

Help ramzi from Gaza My name is Ramzi from Gaza, I am 20 years old. My house was destroyed and we are living the most difficult days of our lives. My family consists of 4 members and we suffer every day. We have been disp...

Ramzi is raising money to feed his family in Gaa, if you can help. chuffed.org/project/1319...

My @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive is sold out!

Don’t miss your last chance to explore writing your truth and revision in these workshops with @starrdavispoet.bsky.social and @taraskurtu.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Poem: Anyone’s Son ​--for the family of Trayvon Martin This poem wants to write itself backwards. Wishes it were born memory instead, skipping time like a record needle stuck on the line of your last second. You sit up. Brush not blood, but dirt from your chest. You sit up. You’re in bed. Bad dream. Back to sleep. You sit up. Rise and shine. Good morning. This is the poem of a people united in the uniform of your last day. Pockets full of candy, hooded sweatshirt, sweet tea. This poem wants to stand its ground, silence force with simple words, pray you alive, anyone’s son—tall boy, eye-smile, walk on home.

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.”
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We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support. 46% support 43% oppose 80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE. Independents are +8 on the question.

New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support.

46% support
43% oppose

80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE.
Independents are +8 on the question.

DHH Operations: Food Drive Info Center | Volunteers & Donations DHH Operation Food Drive Info Center: donate, volunteer, training, donation drop-off, food registration, and contact numbers. Serving families in Minneapolis.

This is a direct way to get food diapers/essentials to families in Minneapolis. Neighborhood volunteers do pickups & deliveries. Someone I know does deliveries & shared the link with me. Share & donate if you can.

And national strike Friday!

www.dhhmn.com/operations

God bless the people who are going out there and directly confronting these fucking cowardly Democratic politicians. Thank you.

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Hi Friends! Do you have a skill you'd like to share with your neighbors? Something practical like mending clothes or doing bulk cooking (for events, protests, community support) or maybe influencing government officials or organizing events? Share it & raise money for a good cause

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

How to Block ICE In Your City Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay on effective tactics to disrupt ICE—and the need to target corporate collaborators

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..."

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"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!

Attention, revisers! In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be.

Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

Medical staff in scrubs stand silently in two lines along a hospital hallway, heads bowed in respect. One person covers their face in grief. The corridor sign reads "Intensive Care Unit." Yellow lights line the floor.

Image credited to Garrett Peterson, CRNA colleague of Alex Pretti, of his colleagues at the VA hospital where he worked.

I've been informed that the man in this video is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, better known as Twin Cities hip hop artist Nur-D

BLOOD-BORNE run out into the streets through the garden shrapnel everywhere is dangerous imagine begin again there are no streets there are no streets where the garden had been truth we choose our own everyone back inside where we began run out into the streets run out into the streets there are no streets through the garden where the garden had been shrapnel everywhere truth is dangerous we choose our own imagine everyone back inside begin again where we began there are no streets run out into the streets

To See Again the Poem: A Revision Intensive — Brooklyn Poets In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be.

Only a few spots left in my @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive beginning late Feb. 🖋️✨

Reserve yours:

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The Poetics of Context: Form and Function — Brooklyn Poets In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Discover how the stories beneath your stories…

In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem.

Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

The urgency of political hope — CfTC What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...

Poetry, art, witness, care—@cftchange.bsky.social's new zine explores how we practice hope as a discipline, offering a collection of visions for what political hope looks like now.

Thank you, @linasrivastava.bsky.social and Keefe Murren!

www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

NEW YORK CITY ICE OUT FORGOOD STAND WITH MINNEAPOLIS STOP ICE TERROR, DEFEND OUR COMMUNITIES RALLY & MARCH VAN 23•4PM•UNO1 SO

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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow.

My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

To See Again the Poem: A Revision Intensive — Brooklyn Poets In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be.

Only a few spots left in my @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive beginning late Feb. 🖋️✨

Reserve yours:

brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...