Tara Skurtu teaches incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Poet Lore, Plume, Memorious, DMQ Review, B O D Y, and Tahoma Literary Review.
Poetry in Transylvania
Mar/Apr 2016
Tourniquet
1. Would This Were Would this were the weary quiet of a medicated nap. Would I could watch the insides of eyelids while sleeping, my world blind as a bundle […]
Poetry in Transylvania
Mar/Apr 2016
[What’s one of your dead telling you,]
From the Romanian. What’s one of your dead telling you, the dearest, the most beloved among the dead, when your heart lets you dream him: “Dear, it’s already started […]