My Love Language is Mastercard
…Zipless (845 Press) is a finalist for the 2021 Bisexual Book Awards in both the Poetry and the Bi Writer of the Year categories. Her poetry and creative nonfiction are…
Poet-in-Residence
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In 2024, Arc Poetry Magazine will be looking for candidates
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Chaos
…about them he was told over and over he saw feathers on concrete whenever he closed his eyes— wanting to keep them out of mind but more come flying back…
Use of the Room
…mine—like stags’ on mouldy shag; you and I got the rug, the baby stowed in the ark of a pulled-out drawer. At random, like a biblio-
mant, I opened…
No Immunity to Climate Crisis: Stephen Brockwell’s Immune to the Sacred
…the co-author of Orbital Cultivation with Manahil Bandukwala (Collusion, 2021) and machine dreams with natalie hanna (Collusion, 2021) which was shortlisted for the 2022 bpNichol Chapbook Award. His poem “Can…
Flesh and Machinery: Willow Loveday Little’s (Vice) Viscera
…envision larger bodies diseased with human interaction; her discourse therefore is both micro- and macro-scopic, spitting in the face of capitalist and patriarchal impositions on the body from close and…
The Crow’s Salvage and Redemption: Micheline Maylor’s The Bad Wife
…The Bad Wife. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2021.
Among patterns of imagery that run through the poems, the recurring crow poems in association with the speaker’s psyche
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Past Winners
…Dickinson Read March Winner My Love Language is Mastercard Catherine Lewis Read February Winner Untitled Haiku Melissa Brizuela Read January Winner Kitchen Chantel Lavoie Read 2023 Honourable Mentions and Judges…
Haiku Haiku
…2000- 2020. No false interview with a Canadian author on differences in writing (psychological garden & accompanying booklet). Biographical words— these are cancer, black roots & yellow leaves. Me, you…
Fall Constellations
…tail caressed my face, like a simulacrum.
a yolk through d Like last night’s Scorpio moon— a yolk through dirty- purple stratus clouds—horizontal bodies / purple stratus clouds— balancing…
A Thirst-bot named Istiqfar
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nina jane drystek on “A Thirst-bot named…
Past Winners
2023 Winner Jacob’s Ladder Frank Klaassen Judge Tolu Oloruntoba 2022 Winner As the hart panteth after the water brooks… Luke Hathaway Judge Brecken Hancock 2021 Winner Inevitable Pain Mosab Alnomairy…