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Tara Skurtu
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
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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 · 15d
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FAITH FARM has found its home!

I'm grateful beyond words to be with Unbound Edition Press (@unboundedition.bsky.social). Big thanks to Peter Campion, & to the writing community for your support during my book's years-long journey to acceptance.

Stay tuned!
Unbound Edition Press Author Page Authors: Tara Skurtu (alongside black and white headshot of Tara: white woman with wavy blond hair in sleeveless jean shirt, silver magic pencil necklace, looks at camera--photo credit Spencer Ostrander) Tara Skurtu is the author of the poetry collection The Amoeba Game and the chapbook Skurtu, Romania. The recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, the Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and two Academy of American Poets prizes, she has taught creative writing at Boston University, the BU Prison Education Program, and Transilvania University of Brașov. Tara is a member of the Brooklyn Poets Board of Directors. She lives in New York, where she teaches poetry and coaches writers worldwide. Her book of poems, Faith Farm, will be published by Unbound Edition Press.
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 4d
I'm in awe of this new poem by Gail Mazur:
plumepoetry.com/world-on-a-s...
World on a String, 2012 - Plume
WORLD ON A STRING, 2012 —for Erna Rosenberg   Thunder, and my cats, pure products of America, go crazy at the kitchen door, trapped, the day—which is everything—   promising nothing for them but my de...
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7d
What a time to be paying taxes.
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 8d
Re: "narrative infrastructure for narrative power," I had a great conversation with @catachresis.bsky.social -- of the fantastic @convergencemag.com -- about creating enabling spaces and permission structures to think of new ways of being.

Listen here:
convergencemag.com/podcast/cont...
Controlling Narrative Infrastructure w/ Lina Srivastava
What is narrative infrastructure? With Lina Srivastava (Center for Transformational Change)
convergencemag.com
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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 9d
Disabled friends! I am thrilled to be overseeing @fiddlehd.bsky.social's Summer 2026 issue--DISABILITY: THE REVOLUTION.

Our theme is REVOLUTION and you can interpret that as widely as you like. If you identify as disabled and want to answer this call, please submit!

thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
[Image description: White text against a purple background: The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada's Literary Journal. Disability: The Revolution. The Fiddlehead's Summer 2026 Special Issue. Call for Submissions from Disabled Writers: Deadline November 30, 2025.]
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9d
Trump's petition asking the Supreme Court to let him officially redefine (read: rescind) birthright citizenship is now available and

I wish I did not have to worry about the Supreme Court taking seriously such obviously, egregiously unserious & racist bullshit

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
www.supremecourt.gov
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 9d
Today is the 4th anniversary of the @cftchange.bsky.social . To celebrate, we are launching our framework, "Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power."
A brief introduction to the "Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power" framework from the Center for Transformational Change, to support those dedicated to building the systems behind narrative change and narrative power.
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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 10d
LAST CHANCE to register for this workshop with @taraskurtu.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
Writing the Poems You Need to Write — Brooklyn Poets
“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...
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 10d
Nonstop helicopters flying over Brooklyn today—anyone know what’s going on?
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 10d
Today’s the last day to register!
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · Aug 4
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:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
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.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you to everyone who donated, Ramzi was able to pay his tent space rent and buy some food. He is still needing more money for food, if you’re able to match me.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13d
Ramzi escaped the North, thankfully, and is now fundraising for rent for his tent plot and food also. chuffed.org/project/1319...
A young Gazan man stands atop a refugee camp in Gaza near the ocean.
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 11d
Only one day left to register!
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · Aug 4
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:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
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.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 13d
NYC says STOP THE GENOCIDE! 📢
ARREST NETANYAHU STOP THE GENOCIDE MARCH TO THE UN SANCTION ISRAEL FRI. SEP 26 • 9AM TIMES SQUARE NYC ALL OUT TO NEW YORK CITY!
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 13d
Only 2 days left to register!
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · Aug 4
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:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
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.
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 15d
✨Soft Announcement ✨

FAITH FARM has found its home!

I'm grateful beyond words to be with Unbound Edition Press (@unboundedition.bsky.social). Big thanks to Peter Campion, & to the writing community for your support during my book's years-long journey to acceptance.

Stay tuned!
Unbound Edition Press Author Page Authors: Tara Skurtu (alongside black and white headshot of Tara: white woman with wavy blond hair in sleeveless jean shirt, silver magic pencil necklace, looks at camera--photo credit Spencer Ostrander) Tara Skurtu is the author of the poetry collection The Amoeba Game and the chapbook Skurtu, Romania. The recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, the Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and two Academy of American Poets prizes, she has taught creative writing at Boston University, the BU Prison Education Program, and Transilvania University of Brașov. Tara is a member of the Brooklyn Poets Board of Directors. She lives in New York, where she teaches poetry and coaches writers worldwide. Her book of poems, Faith Farm, will be published by Unbound Edition Press.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15d
I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 15d
Aww thank you! ❤️
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you, Jared!
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 15d
✨Soft Announcement ✨

FAITH FARM has found its home!

I'm grateful beyond words to be with Unbound Edition Press (@unboundedition.bsky.social). Big thanks to Peter Campion, & to the writing community for your support during my book's years-long journey to acceptance.

Stay tuned!
Unbound Edition Press Author Page Authors: Tara Skurtu (alongside black and white headshot of Tara: white woman with wavy blond hair in sleeveless jean shirt, silver magic pencil necklace, looks at camera--photo credit Spencer Ostrander) Tara Skurtu is the author of the poetry collection The Amoeba Game and the chapbook Skurtu, Romania. The recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, the Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and two Academy of American Poets prizes, she has taught creative writing at Boston University, the BU Prison Education Program, and Transilvania University of Brașov. Tara is a member of the Brooklyn Poets Board of Directors. She lives in New York, where she teaches poetry and coaches writers worldwide. Her book of poems, Faith Farm, will be published by Unbound Edition Press.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 18d
This has been moving at less than a trickle. Please donate and share so that Leqaa can be brought home.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21d
As of now, only $12K of the necessary $250K in legal fees have been raised to free Leqaa. If prisoners are the compass of the Palestinian struggle, they should be the compass of the Palestinian solidarity struggle as well.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21d
You can donate to Leqaa's legal fees here:
chuffed.org/project/free...
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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social · 18d
Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions!

www.theweightjournal.com
The Weight Journal
www.theweightjournal.com
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 18d
So great to live in a country with two political parties in control, one that is actively fascist and the other that is passively fascist. You decide which is which.
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 19d
Where are the disappeared?

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20d
Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 20d
Trump is destroying and destabilizing people's lives in an effort to control powers that rightfully belong to Congress.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 20d
Trump just inexplicably canceled the $20M grant we secured for the Roxbury Transit Corridor.

This is a critical investment, allocated by Congress, that would improve the daily lives of commuters, enhance climate resilience, & strengthen our communities.

This fight isn't over & we will push back.
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