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Tara Skurtu
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Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Speaker. Books: The Amoeba Game, next up: Faith Farm. CEASEFIRE NOW. FREE PALESTINE. 🍉
If you’re in NYC & love poetry, film, & art, there is a treasure chest of poet Frank Bidart’s personal books for sale at “B” Dry Goods in Crown Heights. Stop in Sat 1-7 PM. Frank is one of my favorite poets, & the books I found there are some of the most special books I’ve ever found.
bdrygoods.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Help @brooklynpoets.bsky.social continue cultivating community and access to poetry across the borough and beyond in 2026! One lucky bidder will receive an hour of one-on-one writing coaching on your poetry and being a poet in the world. 🖋️✨

Bid here: givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I took a sunny walk and voted early for Zohran Mamdani before heading downtown to teach a poetry workshop. 🤞
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
NYC says STOP THE GENOCIDE! 📢
September 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
✨Soft Announcement ✨

FAITH FARM has found its home!

I'm grateful beyond words to be with Unbound Edition Press (@unboundedition.bsky.social). Big thanks to Peter Campion, & to the writing community for your support during my book's years-long journey to acceptance.

Stay tuned!
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream”
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Global strike for Gaza! Every week!
August 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
At the NYC Mass March for Humanity I FaceTimed my dad in Florida, & then he made a FREE PALESTINE protest sign for my childhood bear Pookie & his pal. I’m grateful to have a dad who raised me to speak out, rise up & fight for justice. I read recently that parenting is a political act, & truly it is.
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today I got the chance to meet and thank Mahmoud Khalil. We Ain’t Reading All That, Free Palestine!

Thanks to my dear friend, photographer Lucien Samaha, for capturing this moment during today’s march in NYC. ❤️
August 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
TODAY NYC! 📢
August 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
💔 Impossibly harder and harder to try to find words that attempt to express the limitless cruelty of the bottomless evil of the genocide.

Here’s a poem read three ways.
August 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
August 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In response to your requests for an online poetry course so people in different time zones can join, I’m teaching my very first online course this fall—at @brooklynpoets.bsky.social!

Writing The Poems You Need To Write
Sun Oct 5 & 12
10:30 AM-1:30 PM ET

Register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
August 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
July 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Poem by Fanny Howe. ❤️
July 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Protect Trans Youth. 🏳️‍⚧️
June 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
June 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Tonight at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn!
May 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Timely poem by Danielle Legros Georges.
May 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Registration for my @brooklynpoets.bsky.social summer workshop just opened! ✨

Would you like to get your poems (or more of your poems) on the path to being published? This seven-week, in-person workshop will get your submission game into gear.

Reserve your spot:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/g...
May 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Tuesday 5/6: NYC BOOK LAUNCH of POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY: POEMS FOR ALL SEASONS — 7pm at Recirculation.✨ Excited to kick off the release of this beautiful poetry anthology. Hope to see you there! ❤️
May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Poetry Is Not A Luxury: Poems For All Seasons comes out May 6, & I’m grateful that “Morning Love Poem” gets to be in these pages with so many poets & poems I admire.
May 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Taking a moment to celebrate really really good news. Can’t wait to say what it is when I can. 🥂✨
April 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
April 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
NYC Says: ARMS EMBARGO NOW!
March 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM