{"id":1975,"date":"2023-01-28T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2023-02-15T19:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:04:39","slug":"poetry-by-tara-skurtu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Tara Skurtu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\">\n<div class=\"poemscroll\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\n<h4>Separation<\/h4>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">On the centennial\nGreat Union Day\n\nof your country\nyou\u2019re at 100 Beers\n\nyou are your father\nand his father say\n\nyou don\u2019t have\nan alcohol problem\n\nyou have a\nchildhood problem\n\nyou piss\nin your hands I came\n\nto your country\nfor you I left\n\nyou in your country\non the boulevard\n\nof your ancestors\nwhere a man pulls\n\nhis bus to the curb\nopens the doors and\n\nreaches out the head\nof a dirty mop to\n\nloosen the blue yellow\nred flag caught\n\nin a rearview mirror.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tara Skurtu is the author of <em>The Amoeba Game<\/em>\u00a0and the upcoming poetry collection <em>Faith Farm<\/em>. A two-time U.S. Fulbright grantee and recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, a Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and two Academy of American Poets prizes, Tara is the founder of International Poetry Circle and a national steering committee member of Writers for Democratic Action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}