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Interview: Vallum Magazine
Poet Jake Byrne interviewed David about his new book, Dream of Me as Water, in late 2022. Read more
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LiterAsian 2023 Festival
On May 6 & 7, I will be a part of two events for the 2023 run of LiterAsian, based in Vancouver, B.C. Click the links below to purchase your tickets: “How Do You Feel?” The Aesthetic and Rhythmic Kindness of Poetry Saturday May 6, 2023 Poets create magic when they shape their words from… Read more
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Review: Mythical Man in DVAN
Vietnamese-American writer and poet Baonguyen Huynh Nguyen reviews Mythical Man for DVAN. What is clear in David Ly’s Mythical Man is that his use and abandonment of Western tropes, uses of the erotic and sensual are all intentional in the making of Ly’s monster. What he does well is be honest with the reader and himself. Ly bares… Read more
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Review: Queer Little Nightmares in filling station
Calum Robertson reviews Queer Little Nightmares for filling station. Throughout the short stories and poems (which often genre-bend), three core feelings emerge: a sense of play, of queer joy, and of queer trauma. Within intense pain, we find reclamation. When the villagers chase us with pitchforks, we find power in roaring at them, drunk off… Read more
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Poetry Event / Questions for Today & Tomorrow with Brandon Wint + Lili Robinson + David Ly
On Sunday, February 26th at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, and Massy Books, for Questions for Today & Tomorrow, a poetry reading event featuring poets Brandon Wint, Lili Robinson, and David Ly. The event presents unique poetry, theatre and spoken word performances which welcomes Vancouver-based writers to share, through their varied artistry, the questions, curiosities and social preoccupations that… Read more
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Review: Queer Little Nightmares in Lightspeed Magazine
Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fantasy Magazine, Arley Sorg, reviews Queer Little Nightmares for Lightspeed Magazine. David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli have pulled together a talented set of authors…If you like short fiction and poetry, this is a good book to pick up. If you’re looking for work by authors from typically marginalized demographics, then you need to… Read more
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