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Poetry at Stake [by Tara Skurtu]
Poetry has the logic of memory, the spontaneity of dreams, yet is much like calculus—each line is, in a sense, an asymptote composed of and continually approaching the limits of language in an attempt…
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The Committees in our Heads: on Fear and Writing [by Tara Skurtu]
Raise your hand if you’re scared of writing. I am. I’m terrified of writing anything that’s not a poem. Especially blogs. They remind me of casual conversation, recorded. Or of a close-up photoshoot, a…
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On the Impossibility of Teaching Creative Writing [by Tara Skurtu]
Have you ever heard of a tipperau? This is the first thing I ask my composition and creative writing students when I walk into a classroom on day one. They look at me, confused.…
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Tara Skurtu Guest Author January 4-8
We kick off 2016 with Tara Skurtu as our guest author. Tara is a Boston-based poet, teacher, and translator currently living in Romania, where she teaches creative writing as a Fulbright grantee. She is the…
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Dean and Jerry on stage again, 20 years later, thanks to Francis Albert
This video clip is even better than the one I posted on Dean Martin 's birthday (June 7) of the famous reconciliation scene during the Jerry Lewis Telethon of 1976 twenty years after he…
