{"id":2353,"date":"2017-06-12T15:28:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2017-06-12T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:31:57","slug":"tara-skurtu-publishes-translations-of-romanian-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/06\/12\/tara-skurtu-publishes-translations-of-romanian-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Skurtu publishes translations of Romanian poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_gmail_default\">For the <a href=\"http:\/\/plumepoetry.com\/2017\/05\/featured-selection-romanian-poets\/\">June issue of <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/plumepoetry.com\/2017\/05\/featured-selection-romanian-poets\/\">Plume<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Tara Skurtu (Poetry &#8217;13) worked on a contemporary poetry feature with writer and translator MARGENTO. \u00a0Tara and MARGENTO each chose five poets to introduce and translate\u00a0for the issue. \u00a0We&#8217;re proud to say that Tara originally went to Romania on her <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/\">Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship<\/a>, where she fell in love with Romanian poetry, and has been teaching\u00a0herself Romanian through contemporary poems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thanks, Tara, for sharing your work with us, and congrats!<\/p>\n<div class=\"x_gmail_default\">\n<div id=\"attachment2355\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/06\/12\/tara-skurtu-publishes-translations-of-romanian-poetry\/skurtu-georgescu-bw-for-eyewear\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2355\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2355\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2017\/06\/Skurtu-Georgescu-bw-for-Eyewear-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Skurtu Georgescu bw for Eyewear\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-2355 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2017\/06\/Skurtu-Georgescu-bw-for-Eyewear-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2017\/06\/Skurtu-Georgescu-bw-for-Eyewear-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2017\/06\/Skurtu-Georgescu-bw-for-Eyewear-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment2355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by C\u0103t\u0103lin Georgescu<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_gmail_default\">Tara Skurtu is a two-time Fulbright grantee and recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. Her recent poems have appeared in <em>Salmagundi, The Kenyon Review, Tahoma Literary Review<\/em>, and <em>Poetry Wales<\/em>. She is the author of the chapbook <em>Skurtu, Romania<\/em> (Eyewear, 2016) and the full collection <em>The Amoeba Game<\/em> (Eyewear, October 2017). She lives and teaches in Bucharest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the June issue of Plume,\u00a0Tara Skurtu (Poetry &#8217;13) worked on a contemporary poetry feature with writer and translator MARGENTO. \u00a0Tara and MARGENTO each chose five poets to introduce and translate\u00a0for the issue. \u00a0We&#8217;re proud to say that Tara originally went to Romania on her Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, where she fell in love with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}