The Fall 2025 issue of Arc Poetry is the last issue with Poetry Editor Jennifer Baker at the helm, and with her farewell issue Jennifer has directed us and this issue’s contributors to simultaneously look inward and outward. In her editor’s note, Jennifer writes: “This issue of Arc asks what it would mean for us poets to go touch grass for a while. What would it look like to re-engage with the material, rather than the purely psychological or symbolic, realities of nonhuman beings, and contend with the autonomous lives that surround us with their own agencies? What does it look like when poets turn their attention to the raw materials of the world, and what would collaboration between the human and the actual, real, nonhuman look like?” Pick up this issue to see how it’s contributors leapt to experimentation to find answers to these questions.
In This Issue
Arc 105 brings you:
- Poems by Sarah Westcott, Garry MacKenzie, Jody Chan, Gary Barwin, and more
- Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s translation of Kadiri Vaquer Fernández’s Rites of Passage
- An essay against monocrop by Laurie D. Graham
- sophie anne edwards, Renée M. Sgroi, and Kim Trainor in conversation
- Reviews of seven recent books with direct and tangential connections to ecopoetics
Visual art inside and on the cover of this issue is provided by Valérie Chartrand.
Valérie Chartrand is a visual artist who memorializes insect decline and biodiversity loss using imprint-based methods and found insects. She has exhibited across Canada, received grants, and completed her MFA in 2021. She is grateful to pursue her creative research thanks to the wonders of the land in Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinaabeg Algonquin nation.
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