A. Light Zachary

MORE SURE, @Arsenalpulp. 🟥 🐾

[Ontario Creates @OntarioCreates]

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

[Eduardo C. Corral (he/him/his) @EduardoCCorral]

Marvelous news!

[Arsenal Pulp Press @arsenalpulp]

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

[Ontario Creates @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: https://t.co/9dOMGlneW2

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

🟥 "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:

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

🟥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: https://t.co/qRnpoSDrAt

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

[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: https://t.co/sB20yeqqwT

[The Ex-Puritan @ex_puritan]

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

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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.

[The Ex-Puritan @ex_puritan]

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.

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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.

[ALA's Rainbow RT @GLBTRT]

The Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Books

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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: https://t.co/Cbm704tn6x

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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."
https://t.co/Y84NUmTk7Z

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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.

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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: https://t.co/rXQZc208qs

[BOMB Magazine @BOMBmagazine]

"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.

https://t.co/tUkx7KILge

[Arsenal Pulp Press @arsenalpulp]

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."

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

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.
https://t.co/bcuOUBz4jz

[A. Light Zachary @alightupon]

NOW ACCORDING TO @BookRiot:
🟥 "Exuberant, defiant, and tender..."
🟥 "Easily one of my favourite collections of the year..."
https://t.co/bcuOUBz4jz