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Binoy Zuzarte

@bzuzarte.bsky.social

Poet, writer, creative director. Found or forthcoming in Arc, Augur, Scrivener Creative Review, Pinhole Poetry, The Shore, others. He/him. 👋🏽

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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, Binoy Zuzarte shares ‘Central Air’ with us, tells us about the inspiration he finds in the pottery studio, and wonders if, in these times of misinformation, poetic clarity might be a subversive act. Thanks Binoy! www.facebook.com/share/p/19GG...

Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a final line. From Hayan Charara's book These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: bookshop.org/a/862/978157... #poem #booksky #writing

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I mean, A24’s “The Green Knight” is excellent.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy I'll be in @pinholepoetry.bsky.social alongside some absolute legends 🔥🥵

Pinhole Poetry@pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Announcing the contributors for PINHOLE POETRY’S SUMMER ISSUE Look for it July 3!

PINHOLE POETRY'S
SUMMER ISSUE
Carol Alexander
Jody Baltessen
DJ Bennett
Daniel Bourne
Frances Boyle
Attri Dey
Elowen Dovren
Kim Fahner
Raoul Fernandes
Gavin Foster
Catherine Graham
Laurie Koensgen
Mairin Caitriona Landis
David Lee
Y S Lee
Shannon Lintott
Jessica Lee McMillan
Alessandro Merendino
Paul Moorehead
Marc Perez
Susan Robertson
Alex Skorochid
Cristalle Smith
Lynn Tait
Binoy Zuzarte

JULY 3

Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Stephanie Choi 💙 Absolutely love this poem in the most recent issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social!

STEPHANIE CHOI
Vulnerable
Not one of those words which once learned, I couldn't stop saying, like ubiquitous or introspection-instead one that people can't stop saying to me about what I do, what I teach. It's just so...my friend says after a reading, another friend's dad, and another's mom, say it's so beautiful your generation can be...the Dean of my college tells me he read my book and the poems have such a vulnerable power. My boyfriend glances over the student poem I'm reading and says that's the kind of thing I'd write in my notes app and never show anyone, or delete immediately. From the latin —vulnus: wound. I must admit an apt adjective, albeit unoriginal. The wound is the place where light enters you-Rumi writes, and I promised myself I'd never use that in a poem. I want my students to locate the wound with the precision of a surgeon, transform it with the vision of a mountain lion. Stakes. Risks. Everyday I profess the same thing. They write about alcoholic parents, suicide, heartbreak. I often cry when I read their work, alone at home in my pajamas. But I feel shy about telling them this-how much their poems, even the bad ones, inhabit me, continue to sting like scraped knees. I think about them more than I want to, like now at pilates, in a low lounge, as our teacher whose second language is English says if you feel so vulnerable, you can do this... and sets her knee on the ground—a reminder—it's okay, if only for a moment, to let the wound rest.

Griffin Poetry @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨We’re delighted to announce 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 (@aaknopf.bsky.social) by Kevin Young as the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize winner. ✨Young received C$130,000 in prize money, and the other finalists were each awarded C$10,000.

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey Augurians!! We're NOW OPEN for a PRIORITY call from BIPOC, trans, &/or disabled creators currently living in &/or from Canada 📚 From May 5th-31st, Augur Mag is now ACCEPTING speculative submissions of... ✨ Short fiction ✨ Flash fiction ✨ Poetry Scroll for more details 👀⬇️

Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Points" by @raoulfernandes.bsky.social, from the new issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social. (So many good poems in this one!)

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇

Submit to Augur Magazine

We're looking for surrealism, dream touched realism, and SFF! Now with higher pay.

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Grist has such beautiful issues. Cool to be in it with other writers I admire like @janezwart.bsky.social (whose book just arrived yesterday) feels like ages ago I wrote this but thanks to the journal for selecting it!

Julie Mannell @juliemannell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The first excerpt from my Little Girls series, set in Welland & Pelham in the early 2000s, appears in the May issue of The Walrus. I have spent 20 years working on this series. It is the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life. Please enjoy “Tiffany” thewalrus.ca/tiffany/

Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Have you been working on an essay about Canadian poetry? Do you want to write an analysis of a poem? Have you been thinking about interviewing a prominent Canadian poet? Pitches can be sent to prose@arcpoetry.ca any time! For more details, visit our submissions guidelines: buff.ly/RkD46CA

Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 6mo ago

No joke, I've reread or thought about this poem almost weekly since the start of the year. A poem for our times if ever there was one. Thank you @jacquiz.bsky.social @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social #WorldPoetryDay

Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I wrote about selves letting go of the self in @ronnabloom.bsky.social's latest collection, In a Riptide. Spoiler: I loved it. Thanks Emma and @literalnobody.bsky.social at TMR. miramichireader.ca/2026/03/the-...

“The Whole School Is in Me”: A Review of Ronna Bloom’s In a Riptide | The Miramichi Reader

Bloom opens this collection—her eighth, out now with Brick Books—with “Immeasurable,” a poem about a fleeting connection with a woman on the street

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World. Get it here: bit.ly/saeedalive #poem #books #writing

Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"It’s quiet but for all this gold you can’t take with you, sky with room for just itself. " #TodaysPoem #poetry Margate (Golden Hour) by Binoy Zuzarte (@bzuzarte.bsky.social) (2026 Dusie) dusie.blogspot.com/2026/02/tues...

Tuesday poem #671 : Binoy Zuzarte : Margate (Golden Hour)

Dead algae and pheromone spice: there ’ s a full circle in the smell of low tide anointing arches in the throat as Turner himself lay...

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A valentine for my sweetheart as it first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada

$Bellwether A sudden thaw arrived in late December — lasted upwards of a week. The coloured lights in windows, hung from eaves, and strung round yard-art sleighs and reindeer gave our fog-filled street the cheerful kind of menace found in nursery rhymes and fairy tales, old literary nonsense books — anatomies of dreams. Since then we've had outrageous weather — gale force squalls and whiteouts, set new wind chill records. For two months straight we've nested \in our heads, worn heavy socks and sweaters — the snowpack on the ground a kind of mythic presence. Today a red-plumed bird on our big backyard maple — a valentine to see us through to spring. Old heart, the cold won't last forever. Phillip Crymble$

Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've got a new poem out in the world! My thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the feature 🙏🏽

rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Tuesday poem #671 : Binoy Zuzarte : Margate (Golden Hour) / @bzuzarte.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/02/tues...

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is how / I love you. Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) in @stanchion.bsky.social

There was that time you went blind driving on 85.
I grabbed the wheel, we coasted down the offramp
to one of those anonymous office centers—it was
Saturday, so it was just us and the blackness
that swallowed your vision. "What's happening?" I asked.
But you said to wait. You described stars bursting,
light crumbling the dark's edges. And just as suddenly
you could see again. I asked if I should drive
but you said you were fine, you drove us back
to our Bronx apartment with its cornflower
blue bedroom walls, its raspberry entryway,
our neighbor Two Feathers and his 2am drum circles.
Thirteen years later I reminded you about this
and you gave me this look. You said you didn't
remember. The parking lot, its sad dogwoods,
its disintegrating black top--I described it, and you shook
your head. For years I thought of the buttered bread
I might have needed to place into your palm,
the different ways to say "red" so you wouldn't
miss an inch of autumn, a slice of velvet cake.
The darkness that happened to you once, briefly,
it happened to me for years. That blackness—
you dropped it—I picked it up for you, I polished it,
tucked it like a passport into my nightstand drawer.
All this time, I kept it safe. This is how
I love you. I will wipe the shadows from your brow.
I will fold them into our dictionary's pages
between "ember" and "embrace."

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Looking for something to curl up with this fall? Check out our newly released Augur Issue 8.2! ✨ Also, you can find 2 FREE samples on our site! 📚💫 🔗 Link in bio!

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · last yr.

The heat of summer is here, and Arc 107 is full of hot new poems, including winner of our 2025 Poem of the Year contest! Poems in this issue will haunt you, unsettle your ideas of home and family, and ask questions about memory, history and our place in the cosmos. Order one today: buff.ly/PxduI1T

Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · last yr.

Two (and too) incredible poems.

shovda@shovda.bsky.social · last yr.

I forgot to post the poems because I've been streaming for 17 days straight lol.

Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · last yr.

We're looking for a New Poetry Editor! You'll be working closely with a passionate editorial team to curate and edit three issues per year. Applications will be accepted until August 1, 2025, or until the position is filled. Apply today to become Arc's next Poetry Editor! buff.ly/1E4uhN5

The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · last yr.

“I try not to think about the numerical side of forecasts, carelessly wise like a fish caught then tossed back to sea. What days we took out, meaning life a rare tome lent then due too soon…” From “Preservation Efforts” by Binoy Zuzarte in ISSUE 25!

Binoy Zuzarte "Preservation Efforts" — THE SHORE

POETRY

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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · last yr.

Just remembered a linguistics paper I wrote ("Oh Sandy, *Sandry, *Sanny, Why-Yi-Yi-Yi: Exploring the Hypocoristic Diminutive Suffix -y under Optimality Theory") and yes, the first bit's a lyric from Grease... Thanks for memories old and new @cv2magazine.bsky.social ✌🏽😅 #2DayPoem2025 #hypocorism

Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · last yr.

A very good, National Poetry Month problem to have: missing two events yesterday in favour of a third

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · last yr.

CANLIT & SFF OPEN CALLS ⬇️ Augurians - submit your work!

Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · last yr.

But not yet, darling. Not yet. —Kim Addonizio

Pima Canyon by Kim Addonizio - Rattle: Poetry

Do I look scrawny? Elizabeth asked, on her miserable Parkinson’s diet, no more foods she loved, she wasn’t supposed to drink but she was drinking a little, red wine, because you can’t forgo everything...

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