Welcome to Arc Poetry
At Arc, we find the brave new voices. We feature poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike; and prose that offers new perspectives on the verse you thought you knew.
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One of the most widely read literary magazines in the country, Arc has a following composed of writers, poetry aficionados, academics and a general cultural readership.
Who’s at Arc?
Kayla Calder
President
Jenna Butler
Poetry Editor
Dessa Bayrock
Prose Editor
Rachel Fernandes
Reviews Editor
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Board of Directors
Kayla Calder | President
Sabrina Haloulakos | Vice President
Rebecca Hallquist | Secretary
Dee Cao | Treasurer
Alison Goodwin | Board of Directors
Nduka Otiono | Board of Directors
Danielle Richardson | Board of Directors
Jeffrey Richstone | Board of Directors
Editorial Board
Jenna Butler | Poetry Editor
Dessa Bayrock | Prose Editor
Margaryta Golovchenko | Reviews Editor
Lise Rochefort | Associate Poetry Editor
Alison Goodwin | Associate Poetry Editor
Susan Gillis | Associate Poetry Editor
Danielle Richardson | Spoken Word Editor
Deborah Margo | Visual Art Committee
Nina Jane Drystek | Editorial Board
Margo LaPierre | Editorial Board
Rusty Priske | Editorial Board
Contributing Editors
Terry Abrahams | Katrina Agbayani | Marie-Andree Auclair | Lisa Banks | Tara Borin | Jenny Boychuk | Lara Bozabalian | Julia Bustos | Jake Byrne | Dylan Curran | Poonam Dhir | Wendy Donawa | Benjamin Dugdale | Alexander Duncan | Michael Edwards | Cara Evans | Doris Fiszer | Diane Guichon | Susan Haldane | Ren Iwamoto | Prachi Kamble | Margo LaPierre | Jade Liu | Callista Markotich | Sadie McCarney | Abby McIntyre-Tsiang | Pamela Medland | Amanda Merpaw | Anna Navarro | Alison Newall | Tyler Perry | Pearl Pirie | Walker Pityn | Leah Schnurr | Renee Sgroi | Kara Stanton | Candace de Taeye | Jean Van Loon | Mary Vlooswyk | Sanna Wani | Jaeyun Yoo
Production Team
Chris Johnson | Layout Artist and Production
Serge Duguay | Art Director
Gilmore | Printer
MCP Group | Mailing House
Acknowledgements
The Arc Poetry Society gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa, and our donors and subscribers. Ottawa is built on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. The peoples of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation have lived on this territory for millennia. Their culture and presence have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. The Arc Poetry Society honours the peoples and land of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation as well as all First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and their valuable past and present contributions to this land.
