Embrace spring with great poetry that, as Nancy Jo Cullen says, “can bring us to a common ground to remind us that at our essence we are feeling, thinking, and living animals who do better in community.”
This new issue of Arc Poetry Magazine contains the latest Diana Brebner Prize-winning poem, a long interview between two great Canadian poets, a sequence of poems from our 2023 – 2024 Poet-in-Residence, plus so much more!
In This Issue
Arc 106 brings you:
- The winner and honourable mentions of our 2024 Diana Brebner Prize
- Our 2023 – 2024 Poet-in-Residence feature, which includes writing by mentees who workshopped their poems with Chelene Knight
- New poems by Lisa Baird, Gary Barwin, Jessi MacEachern, Robyn Sarah and more
- How Poems Work columns examining writing by Anne Carson and Iman Mersal
- Klara du Plessis’ essay about listening to poetry during public readings and how that relates to reading poems on a page
- New reviews of books by Kirstina Bresnen, natalie hanna, Cassidy McFadzean, Susan McMaster, and Michael Trussler
Visual art inside and on the cover of this issue is provided by Ottawa-based artist Pedro Isztin.