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Binoy Zuzarte

@bzuzarte.bsky.social
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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 · 17/08/2026
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...
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I mean, A24’s “The Green Knight” is excellent.
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happy I'll be in @pinholepoetry.bsky.social alongside some absolute legends 🔥🥵
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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.
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Griffin Poetry @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
✨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.
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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 👀⬇️
The background is an illustration, layered in the colour blue of two figures on the right and left with swirls of fire as their hair, wearing blue robes, sitting among colourful flowers and writing in a book. There is a larger figure in the middle with swirling fire hair with a glowing white bird in front of them. At the top of the image is the augur logo and below it reads: "Priority call" in white text with an orange banner behind it. Underneath it reads: "BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled writers in or from Canada" in white text. In the middle of the image reads: "Submissions now open" in white text. Below it reads: "$100 cad per poem.
$0.14 cad per word (Fiction, 800+ words).
$112 cad per flash fic (<800 words)" in white text. There is an orange bar and inside it in white text reads: "Pass it on" and beside it is a paper airplane graphic. At the bottom of the image is a link to the submissions: https://augursociety.org/submissions/ in white text. Below it reads: "Sci-fi. Fantasy. Slipstream."
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"Points" by @raoulfernandes.bsky.social, from the new issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social. (So many good poems in this one!)
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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👇
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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 · 29/03/2026
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!
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Julie Mannell @juliemannell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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/
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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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-...
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“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 · 07/03/2026
From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World. Get it here: bit.ly/saeedalive #poem #books #writing
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"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...
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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 · 14/02/2026
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
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I've got a new poem out in the world! My thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the feature 🙏🏽
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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."
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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!
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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 .
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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Two (and too) incredible poems.
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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“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!
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Binoy Zuzarte "Preservation Efforts" — THE SHORE
POETRY
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A very good, National Poetry Month problem to have: missing two events yesterday in favour of a third
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
CANLIT & SFF OPEN CALLS ⬇️ Augurians - submit your work!
A background image of a person writing with a pen in their hand with a purple overlay. At the top of the image is the Augur logo. In the middle of the image is a purple banner that reads: "canlit & sff mags  open now" in white text. In the corner of the banner is a pink circle that reads: "April 2025" in white text. At the bottom of the image is a dark purple bar that reads: "Psst... Augur submissions open this fall," in white text. Beside that is a yellow exclamation mark in yellow with a pink circle behind it.
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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
But not yet, darling. Not yet. —Kim Addonizio
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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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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I have a poem in @theshorepoetry.bsky.social! Whew. Grateful to @scbrock.bsky.social and the editors, as well as my notes app. Read Issue 25 here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Please try to enjoy each stanza equally
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Spring is here and so is ISSUE 25! 🌸 www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Kathleen Keenan’s Solstice in @thenewquarterly.bsky.social is exactly what I needed on this rainy day. “You think that’s just how it works, life providing you with abundance, but it isn’t. Oh, it isn’t at all.” tnq.ca/story/solsti...
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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Call for Submissions: The New Material Ecopoetics! How do you write with nature? We're seeking unpublished experimental eco-poetry (lyric, visual, material & sound) for Fall 2025. Send your big swings by May 15! Check out our submission guidelines at buff.ly/3EUtM6m
Graphic with images and text. In the top left and bottom right corners are line illustrations of plants. In the top right corner is Arc's logo. The text is in the middle of the image and reads: "Call for submissions: The new material ecopoetics. Deadline: May 15, 2025."
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Touch and singing." All three (!) of @ronnabloom.bsky.social's poems in the latest @fiddlehd.bsky.social are a gift, but this? This is necessary.
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Can a single word heal? Let me make the case for "improvise"—
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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Trumpeting in @arcpoetry.bsky.social and thrilled about it. Thanks to the team for including me!
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