Arc Poetry - Arc 104

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After joining the team earlier in 2024, Ashley-Elizabeth Best pens the editor’s note for this issue and muses over “our reasons for creating and reading poetry.” Readers of this issue will discover a showcase of the unique and diverse approaches to poetry that each of the contributors brings to these pages, as well as the potential for change, invention, and community that drives poetry forward.

Arc’s Poem of the Year Shortlist (2024)

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Cassandra Myers

Part-Time Magic

Jade Riordan

Bad Mango

Fareh Malik

The Opposite of Combustion

Richard-Yves Sitoski

Of Eccentric Orbits

Jennifer Houle

In Which Alberta Plays the Old West (Not So Much in the Way That Angela Hewitt Plays Bach as in the Way That a Dog Plays Dead)

Joseph Kidney

The Bottle Depot

Tonya Lailey

Guide to the Bones of the Foot

Elizabeth Philips

Dear Mahsa

Ava Fathi

In This Issue

Arc 104 brings you:

Arc’s Poem of the Year shortlist—pick up the issue for the big reveal of the grand prize winner
Jim Johnstone’s essay on editing Tolu Oloruntoba, and Dessa Bayrock’s look at two centuries of Canadian sonnets
How Poems Work articles on poems by Andrew DuBois and Sabyasachi Nag
Reviews of books by Karen Enns, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Erín Moure, and more
Translations of Granada poet Olalla Castro by Karen Isabel Ocaña
Poems by Kevin Irie, Sophie Crocker, Timothy Green, Bill Howell, and more
Artwork from Andrea Stokes’ series “volcans y bombas”