{"id":980,"date":"2013-07-15T15:47:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=980"},"modified":"2013-07-16T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:32:10","slug":"tara-skurtus-poem-about-trayvon-martin-in-the-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2013\/07\/15\/tara-skurtus-poem-about-trayvon-martin-in-the-huffington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Skurtu&#8217;s poem about Trayvon Martin in the Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amethystarsenic.com\/issues\/2-1\/img\/bio\/tara-skurtu.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"253\" width=\"190\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taraskurtu.com\/\">Tara Skurtu<\/a> (Poetry 2013) has written a poem in memory of Trayvon Martin, which has just been published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/trayvon-martin\">Huffington Post<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/tara-skurtu\/a-poem-in-memory-of-trayv_b_3593272.html?utm_hp_ref=tw\">Click here to read her poem online<\/a>. Tara has also written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/tara-skurtu\/after-the-marathon-bombin_b_3189644.html\">firsthand account of the Boston Marathon bombings<\/a> for the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pw.org\/content_71\">Tara Skurtu<\/a> (Poetry 2013)\u2019s poems appear in Poetry Review, Hanging Loose, <a href=\"http:\/\/salamandermag.org\/\">Salamander<\/a>, Poet Lore, The Los Angeles Review, <a href=\"http:\/\/hirampoetryreview.wordpress.com\/\">Hiram Poetry Review<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/southeastreview.org\/\">The Southeast Review<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/comstockreview.org\/\">The Comstock Review<\/a>, and elsewhere. Earlier this year she was named one of Lloyd Schwartz (\u201cFresh Air\u201d)\u2019s six favorite new poets. Tara has also recently been awarded the BU Class of 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/61\">Academy of American Poets Prize<\/a>. The contest judge was Gail Mazur; one poet in the current poetry class was selected. She is a 2013 <a href=\"blogs.bu.edu\/world\/\">Robert Pinsky Global Fellow<\/a> in Poetry and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/2013-fellows\/tara-skurtu-romania\/\">will travel this fall to Romania<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tara Skurtu (Poetry 2013) has written a poem in memory of Trayvon Martin, which has just been published on the Huffington Post. Click here to read her poem online. Tara has also written a firsthand account of the Boston Marathon bombings for the Huffington Post. Tara Skurtu (Poetry 2013)\u2019s poems appear in Poetry Review, Hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}