Tara Skurtu

Tara Skurtu is the author of the chapbook Skurtu, Romania, the full poetry collection The Amoeba Game, and the forthcoming collection Faith Farm. A two-time Fulbright grantee and recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, the Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and two Academy of American Poets prizes, her poems and translations have appeared in magazines such as AGNI, The Baffler, The Common, The Kenyon Review, and Salmagundi. Tara is a member of the Brooklyn Poets Board of Directors. She lives in New York, where she teaches poetry and is a writing coach for clients worldwide.

 

photo credit: Spencer Ostrander

  • Death Machine

    because the dead couldn’t speak
  • Bystander Effect, Permanence and Weapon

    Your weapon is an eraser.
  • Leprechaun

    The old woman next door would appear in
  • Hanger

    You needed one
  • Happy Hour

    I wasn’t supposed to touch the two glazed ceramic turtles
  • REVENANT

    Salt and sour bait
  • BRAINS | ECLIPSE

    You didn’t have any
  • NIGHT COMMUNION

    We met at the revolving hotel door. You’d shaved
  • Indian River at Dusk

    The first and only time I caught a sheephead