Exciting news from Tara Skurtu (poetry ’13), who has been awarded a Fulbright to Romania for the 2015-2016 academic year! Tara will be reading her work at the International Poetry Festival in Sibiu, Romania this September with Robert Pinsky and Lloyd Schwartz (her former teachers!). She’ll spend the rest of her time teaching ESL at the University of Transylvania in Brasov and giving poetry and translation workshops to young Romanian writers.
In addition, Tara’s poem, “Derivatives,” has been published in the Tahoma Literary Review and can be read here. This poem is about her experience in Romania during her Global Fellowship.
Congratulations, Tara! We’re so proud of you, and we wish you all the best during your Fulbright!
Tara Skurtu teaches incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program. She is the recipient of a 2015-16 Fulbright, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, and two Academy of American Poets prizes. Tara’s poems have been translated into Romanian and Hungarian, and her recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Plume, Memorious, DMQ Review, The Common, and Tahoma Literary Review.
