{"id":2107,"date":"2016-01-15T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2016-01-15T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:00:27","slug":"tara-skurtu-is-guest-author-on-the-best-american-poetry-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2016\/01\/15\/tara-skurtu-is-guest-author-on-the-best-american-poetry-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Skurtu is guest author on The Best American Poetry Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wonderful news from Tara Skurtu (Poetry ’13)! Tara has been featured as the guest author on The Best American Poetry Blog<\/a>. Her conversational and thought-provoking\u00a0series of\u00a0posts cover a variety of topics, including teaching writing, fear and writing, and growing to love poetry (again). One of the posts features the BU Prison Education Program, where Tara taught. Read her posts below:<\/p>\n

On the Impossibility of Teaching Creative Writing<\/a>
\nThe Committees in our Heads: on Fear and Writing<\/a>
\nPoetry at Stake<\/a>
\nThoreau\u2019s Nephew: Romania\u2019s Literary Slaughterhouse<\/a>
\nI Don\u2019t Like Poetry, I\u2019m Not a Poetry Person<\/a><\/p>\n

Congratulations, Tara!<\/p>\n

Tara Skurtu<\/a> teaches incarcerated college students through Boston University\u2019s 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\u2019s poems have been translated into Romanian and Hungarian, and her recent work appears or is forthcoming in\u00a0<\/span>The Kenyon Review,\u00a0Poetry Review,\u00a0Poetry Wales, Plume,\u00a0Memorious,\u00a0DMQ Review, The Common<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Tahoma Literary Review<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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