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Thank you so much, Gail! Your comment made my day. :)
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 to reach an infinitesimal, wordless realm. This is also one way of saying that a good poem is...
I Don’t Like Poetry, I’m Not a Poetry Person [by Tara Skurtu]
Posted Jan 7, 2016 at The Best American Poetry
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Thoreau’s Nephew: Romania’s Literary Slaughterhouse [by Tara Skurtu]
Posted Jan 6, 2016 at The Best American Poetry
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Poetry at Stake [by Tara Skurtu]
Posted Jan 5, 2016 at The Best American Poetry
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Yes, the whole point is that it's completely made up. :) (Also, when I'm teaching in Romania I tell the students it's a Macedonian structure.)
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. I spell it on the board. No one has ever heard of a tipperau. It’s an ancient Romanian architectural structure,...
Yes, the whole point is that it's completely made up. :) (Also, when I'm teaching in Romania I tell the students it's a Macedonian structure.)
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. I spell it on the board. No one has ever heard of a tipperau. It’s an ancient Romanian architectural structure,...
The Committees in our Heads: on Fear and Writing [by Tara Skurtu]
Posted Jan 4, 2016 at The Best American Poetry
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Thanks, Leslie! And, I agree. (Mistake can be such a good word.) I'm glad you're going to try the exercise. It tends to get everyone talking and laughing right away, and puts them in the mindset that anything can happen at any time in class.
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. I spell it on the board. No one has ever heard of a tipperau. It’s an ancient Romanian architectural structure,...
Thank you so much, Maria! I'm so happy about this. :)
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. I spell it on the board. No one has ever heard of a tipperau. It’s an ancient Romanian architectural structure,...
On the Impossibility of Teaching Creative Writing [by Tara Skurtu]
Posted Jan 3, 2016 at The Best American Poetry
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