{"id":2160,"date":"2016-05-05T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2016-10-12T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:16:40","slug":"tara-skurtu-on-poetry-daily-and-creative-mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2016\/05\/05\/tara-skurtu-on-poetry-daily-and-creative-mornings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Skurtu on Poetry Daily and Creative Mornings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/Skurtu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/Skurtu-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Skurtu\" width=\"254\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/Skurtu-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/Skurtu-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/Skurtu.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to share that Tara Skurtu&#8217;s (Poetry &#8217;13) poem <a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/poem.php?date=16882\">&#8220;Tourniquet&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0was the Poetry Daily poem of the day for World Poetry Day! The poem originally appeared in the March\/April &#8217;16 <em>Kenyon Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Tara was January&#8217;s featured speaker for the Bucharest chapter of the international\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativemornings.com\/\">CreativeMornings<\/a> monthly breakfast lecture series. The theme was language, and she spoke about poetry.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Tara&#8217;s talk <a href=\"https:\/\/creativemornings.com\/talks\/tara-skurtu\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Tara!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/taraskurtu.com\/\">Tara Skurtu<\/a>\u00a0teaches 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<em>The Kenyon Review,\u00a0Poetry Review,\u00a0Poetry Wales, Plume,\u00a0Memorious,\u00a0DMQ Review, The Common<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Tahoma Literary Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to share that Tara Skurtu&#8217;s (Poetry &#8217;13) poem &#8220;Tourniquet&#8221;\u00a0was the Poetry Daily poem of the day for World Poetry Day! The poem originally appeared in the March\/April &#8217;16 Kenyon Review. In addition, Tara was January&#8217;s featured speaker for the Bucharest chapter of the international\u00a0CreativeMornings monthly breakfast lecture series. The theme was language, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4162,522],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}