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Tara Skurtu
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Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Speaker. Books: The Amoeba Game, next up: Faith Farm. CEASEFIRE NOW. FREE PALESTINE. 🍉
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 10d
Poetry Newsletter with big book announcement just dropped!

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Tara Skurtu's Poetry News and Poem Coasters
New poems and a new artistic collaboration
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📢Only 5 days left of the annual @BrooklynPoets auction!
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I'm offering a 1-hr writing coaching session. 🖋️✨

Place your bid to get poem feedback from a poet of your choice & support this wonderful community poetry org into the new year!
Brooklyn Poets 2025 End of Year Fundraising Campaign
Help us continue cultivating community and access to poetry across the borough and beyond by supporting our end-of-year fundraising campaign today!
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November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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readinstead.bsky.social
I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!

www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Help @brooklynpoets.bsky.social continue cultivating community and access to poetry across the borough and beyond in 2026! One lucky bidder will receive an hour of one-on-one writing coaching on your poetry and being a poet in the world. 🖋️✨

Bid here: givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
Brooklyn Poets FUNDRAISING AUCTION BID @ BIT.LY/BKP-GIVE THROUGH NOV. 30TH 1 HOUR CONSULT with Tara Skurtu All proceeds from the auction will support Brooklyn Poets' operations, including fellowships, workshops, readings and free programming at our community space.
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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YES!!!
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Come celebrate Lloyd Schwartz in Boston tomorrow!
The English Department Presents... A Poetry Reading With LLOYD SCHWARTZ Winner of the 2025 David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize at Suffolk University Thursday, November 20 5:00-6:00pm The Poetry Center (Located in the Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont St) Refreshments will be served! Photograph by Spencer Ostrander Lloyd Schwartz is FrederickS. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at UMass Boston, Poet Laureate of Somerville, editor of Elizabeth Bishop, and longtime music critic for NPR's Fresh Air. His numerous awards include Guggenheim, Academy of American Poets, and NEA grants for his poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His latest books are Who's on First? New and Selected Poems (U of Chicago) and, coming next spring, "Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4, 1948) " and Other Poems (Arrowsmith)
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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mbsycamore.bsky.social
An absolutely gorgeous interview that made me cry, thank you!!💕💕💕
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
Page 1 for the interested (I love how the novel opens). Hope to see you tonight. Mattilda is asking folks to wear masks.
The first time I met Sid she was on the dance floor in a silver and gold rube dress pulled over her head except it wasn't just a dress because the fabric went on and on and somehow she knew the exact spot on the dance floor where the light would shine right on her or that's how it felt when she was writhing inside this tube of fabric, pulling it up and down, a hand out and a hand in, and then her face exposed in harsh white makeup and black lipstick with long glittering eyelashes and then she rolled onto the floor, she was crawling or more like bending but also she was completely still in the bouncing lights and all this was happening on a crowded dance floor at the Limelight while I was sipping my cocktail and I didn't know what I was seeing I mean it felt like this went on forever, how many songs, it was like there wasn't even music anymore just my body inside the fabric peeking out and then she pulled the dress up around her neck like a huge elegant collar, and underneath she was wearing a gold bodysuit with a silver metallic skirt that flared out, with ballet slippers also painted gold and she walked right up to me and said what did you think. And I had no idea how she even saw me but I must have mumbled something because then she took my hand and said let's go upstairs, honey, and I thought we were going to the balcony but we went up the stairs in the back, and at the top she kissed the door person on both cheeks and then we went inside. And there was a whole other dance floor there, the club inside the club, and she guided me over to the bar and said: I can't believe she's gone. And then she said it again: I can't believe she's gone. And then she looked up at me and started laughing— oh honey, she said, I totally thought, I totally thought. And then she just stopped right there. I didn't know if she thought I was someone else, or if she thought—I really just didn't know. She said what are you drinking, honey, but she didn't wait for my answer she just ordered …
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Poetry Newsletter with big book announcement just dropped!

mailchi.mp/97f0f137a278...
Tara Skurtu's Poetry News and Poem Coasters
New poems and a new artistic collaboration
mailchi.mp
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
taraskurtu.bsky.social
Poetry Newsletter with big book announcement just dropped!

mailchi.mp/97f0f137a278...
Tara Skurtu's Poetry News and Poem Coasters
New poems and a new artistic collaboration
mailchi.mp
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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taraskurtu.bsky.social
If you’re in NYC & love poetry, film, & art, there is a treasure chest of poet Frank Bidart’s personal books for sale at “B” Dry Goods in Crown Heights. Stop in Sat 1-7 PM. Frank is one of my favorite poets, & the books I found there are some of the most special books I’ve ever found.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
taraskurtu.bsky.social
If you’re in NYC & love poetry, film, & art, there is a treasure chest of poet Frank Bidart’s personal books for sale at “B” Dry Goods in Crown Heights. Stop in Sat 1-7 PM. Frank is one of my favorite poets, & the books I found there are some of the most special books I’ve ever found.
bdrygoods.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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mbsycamore.bsky.social
Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞
This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
taraskurtu.bsky.social
Help @brooklynpoets.bsky.social continue cultivating community and access to poetry across the borough and beyond in 2026! One lucky bidder will receive an hour of one-on-one writing coaching on your poetry and being a poet in the world. 🖋️✨

Bid here: givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
Brooklyn Poets FUNDRAISING AUCTION BID @ BIT.LY/BKP-GIVE THROUGH NOV. 30TH 1 HOUR CONSULT with Tara Skurtu All proceeds from the auction will support Brooklyn Poets' operations, including fellowships, workshops, readings and free programming at our community space.
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Bidding will remain open through November 30, 2025 at 10pm (EST). All proceeds from the auction will support our operations in 2026, including fellowships, workshops, readings and free programming at our community space. givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Our fundraising auction ft. poem feedback, consultations & more from poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Hala Alyan, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social, @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Ross Gay, @joseolivarez.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social & more is live! givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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“Poetry remakes the future…” – Alice Notley

As we wrap up another year in a present insistent on being remade, we need your support to provide the tools poets need to take up their work. Donate to support our work today. brooklynpoets.org/support/donate
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Nurse Hammam is a dedicated RN in Gaza, an ER nurse. Can you donate today?
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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For your Thursday
~ Tara Skurtu
Morning Love Poem (oof)
—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.
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.
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The way this poem always makes me go OH.

Also Tara Skurtu is awesome.
readalittlepoem.bsky.social Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · Oct 16
Today’s poem is selected by Tara Skurtu (@taraskurtu.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“The Committee Weighs In” appeared in Furs Not Mine by Andrea Cohen, published by Four Way Books, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Join us for our Awards Gala on December 7, ft. the inimitable @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social alongside award winners Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, faculty Sam Cha, fellow Disha Trivedi, Mandana Chaffa, Cornelius Eady, Eugenia Leigh, Miller Oberman & Tara Skurtu.
2025 Awards Gala | Honoring Patricia Smith — Brooklyn Poets
Help us raise funds for our operations, including fellowships, workshops, readings and free programming while celebrating our honoree, award winners, and community members including Patricia Smith,…
brooklynpoets.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Mayor-Elect Mamdani has such a gorgeous ring to it!!!!

We did it. The entire movement behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's campaign did it!
I love you, NYC.
NYC Mayor projected winner is Zohran Mamdani (from DecisionDesk)
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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on Monday Nov. 3, join a phone zap for Malik, who has been in solitary confinement for 250 days in a row; 500 days total.

(image from @fromtheriverpdx on IG, w/permission from @freemaliknow)
Malik has been in solitary confinement for nearly 250 days They have called for a Phone Zap to pressure Snake River Correctional Facility! Swipe for Call Script (from IG: @fromtheriverpdx)
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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I took a sunny walk and voted early for Zohran Mamdani before heading downtown to teach a poetry workshop. 🤞
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM