A. Light Zachary

Congratulations to A. Light Zachary (@alightupon) for winning the #TrilliumBookAwards for Poetry for their book MORE SURE.

Marvelous news!

Congrats to A. Light Zachary @alightupon, whose book MORE SURE is a finalist for the #TrilliumBookAwardforPoetry! @OntarioCreates

#oncreates is proud to present the finalists for the 2024 #TrilliumBookAwards, the province’s most prestigious literary prizes for English and French-language Ontario authors. Read the full news release here: ontariocreates.ca/news-releases/…

@mchangpoet k but if it’s a new Royal with a blue dial that automatically takes them down to a 6.

🟥 "It's hard to describe a book this inventive..." 🟥 "So adept with voice that it's the best kind of dizzying..." 🟥 MORE SURE (@Arsenalpulp) a finalist for the @CanadianPoets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award:

🟥New in the @AmPoetryReview: "IF YOU'RE NOT YOUR OWN FAVOURITE POET..." 🟥Two pages of Light vs. the expertly insightful Trevor Ketner. Form, structure, Cy Twombly, lore. 🟥Full text now online: aprweb.org/poems/if-you-r…

[RARE SIGHTING] Today, @UCalgary will have me over to discuss hope, self-realization, poems by myself and others. Free and open. 4pm EST, which is 2pm in Calgary. Register at the bottom of this link, if you want to: events.ucalgary.ca/womens-centre/…

NOW OPEN: POETRY SUBMISSION "LIGHTNING ROUND" ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ The Ex-Puritan's eleventh and FINAL lightning round event under editor @alightupon—who, after eight years, is moving on from this beautiful magazine. ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ Repost/share to help us out. See thread for more details.

I’m back online for the night to oversee my final @ex_puritan lightning round. Our record is 205 submissions, I think. Break it with me.

MORE SURE (@Arsenalpulp) honoured by the Barbara Gittings Literature Award, which is one of the Stonewall Book Awards. Thanks to the @ALALibrary + @GLBTRT, myself, everyone in between.

After SEVEN YEARS! I hope to abdicate my seat as Poetry Tyrant of @ex_puritan. I seek a well-rounded heir; one must defeat me in armed combat to assume the role. (I won the last 6 tournaments, which is how I've kept the job so long. Good luck.) Sign up: ex-puritan.ca/news/now-hirin…

NOW ACCORDING TO @Harvard_Review: 🟥 "Prophetic, erotic, confident..." 🟥 "Reading this collection is like discovering classified research on how to forge a new life for yourself." harvardreview.org/book-review/mo…

I feel fine about telling you (followers) that I have no idea what other poets are talking about ever.

I feel like if I had an argument with someone, and years later they published an "op-ed" about it, that means I won the argument.

One year since I finished writing + editing this book (simultaneous tbh). Five months since its arrival. Thanks to my publisher @Arsenalpulp for everything so far. Second panel: I deserve these reviews, I decided. Buy it: arsenalpulp.com/Books/M/More-S…

"I’m trying to make the poetry I want to see in the world instead." —Michael Chang The poet on writing poems that break the mold, the importance of nuanced understanding, and how fashion is like writing. bombmagazine.org/articles/micha…

Here's a lovely blurb about @alightupon's debut poetry collection from Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme who heralds @alightupon as "a master of their craft and a virtuoso talent" and praises how the poems in #MoreSure "balance acute emotion with subtle wit."

@JEStintzi You are so wise in this, I decided.

In excellent company with Hazel Jane Plante (@Arsenalpulp) and @earthtokb. It's on a list of "Books You Might Have Missed" but you better not have missed me. bookriot.com/queer-books-fr…

NOW ACCORDING TO @BookRiot: 🟥 "Exuberant, defiant, and tender..." 🟥 "Easily one of my favourite collections of the year..." bookriot.com/queer-books-fr…