In the Summer 2026 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine everyone is on the move, getting there, or between stops, including the prize-winning poem from our 2026 Poem of the Year Contest. Flipping through the pages of this issue you can find notes left under the Dog Star, peak summer love pastorals, and mist and dreams and so much more!
As you wait to pick up this issue, check out the Poem of the Year Contest poems on our website to see what our editors thought of this year’s self-portaits, right hooks, and tours of poignant and heartbreaking and emotionally brilliant verse!
In This Issue
Arc 110 brings you:
- The winner, honourable mention, readers’ choice and shortlist of our 2026 Poem of the Year contest
- Lightweight mixed media sculptures by third-generation Japanese Canadian visual artist Judy Nakagawa
- Translations of internment-era issei haiku by Carolyn Nakagawa with Yoriko Gillard
- New poems by Sneha Madhavan-Reese, nancy viva davis halifax, and Tea Gerbeza, among others
- An Interview with Rebecca Salazar about survivorship, speculative horror, and pluralist truth
- New reviews of books by Qurat Dar, Michael Fraser, Randy Lundy, Karen Solie, and more!
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