‘SocratEX at the Gym’

IUSTIN BUTNARIUC (b. 1999, Botoșani) is a student at the Faculty of General Medicine in Iași. Among other things, he is passionate about literature and writes essays, reviews, prose, but especially poetry in Romanian. He has been awarded at various national literary competitions and has published texts in magazines such as Poesis International, Timpul, on the online platforms Omiedesemne, Poetic Stand, Literomania, Hyperion, Liternet, Junimea XXI. He had public readings at the Blecher Institute (March, 2022) and on the occasion of the Librarium Marathon for International Poetry Day (March, 2023). He has not yet debuted in volume, but he plans to do so as soon as possible.