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Arc 106  Work, Love, Rest, Report: the Spring 2025 Issue

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Front cover of Arc Poetry issue #105, featuring artwork by Jude Abu Zaineh.

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Arc 105  At Home: the Fall 2024 issue

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Arc 104  What’s the Damage? Arc’s 2024 Poem of the Year

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Arc 103  Frock Consciousness: the Spring 2024 Issue

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The cover of Arc #102, featuring a detail of a sculpture by Sharona Franklin. The text on the cover reads: "Disability Desirability Curated by guest editor Therese Estacion. Featuring new work by Latif Askia Ba, Brandi Bird, Seán Carson Kinsella, and more"

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Arc 102  Disability Desirability: the Fall 2023 issue

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A carved rock in a river with semi-opaque blue boxes on the top and bottom. The top box of text reads "Summer No. 101" on the top line and "Arc Poetry" on the bottom line.

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Arc 101  Counting to Infinity: the Summer 2023 Issue

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a colouful explosion of balls with orange boxes containing black text in front. the top box of text reads "spring number 100" on the top line and "Arc Poetry" on the bottom line.

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Arc 100  Quantifying Creativity: the Spring 2023 Issue

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Arc 99 Fall 2022  A Season of Gusto: Carolyn Smart, Carolina Corcoran, and Ronna Bloom

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Arc 98 Summer 2022  Neither or Both: Arc's 2022 Poem of the Year

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Arc 97 Spring 2022  20th Anniversary of the Diana Brebner Prize

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Arc 96 Fall 2021  The Islands of Influence

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Arc 95 Summer 2021  Reaching Through: Arc's 2021 Poem of the Year

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Arc 94 Spring 2021  Polymorphous per Verse

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Arc 93 Fall 2020  Shining a light on eight up-and-coming poets of today

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Arc 92 Summer 2020  Moments of elemental change: Arc's 2020 Poem of the Year

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Arc 91 Spring 2020  Adèle Barclay's Singular, Prismatic Imagination

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Arc 90 Fall 2019  Labour and Livelihood

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Arc 89 Summer 2019  Imagine the Images of Arc's 2019 Poem of the Year

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Arc 88 Spring 2019  Poet-in-Residence David O'Meara is the gasoline

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Arc 87 Fall 2018  A Celebration of Poetry from the U.S.A.

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Arc 86 Summer 2018  Celebrating the 2018 Poem of the Year and Arc's 40th Anniversary

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Arc 85 Winter 2018  Di Brandt is finding you on Instagram

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Arc 84 Fall 2017  Oh Canada, We Have Issues

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Arc 83 Summer 2017  Arc's 2017 Poem of the Year Lights Up

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Arc 82 Winter 2017  Robyn Sarah finds twelve miniatures

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Arc 81 Fall 2016  Art in the End Times

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Arc 80 Summer 2016  Poems with Backbone: Arc's 2016 Poem of the Year

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Arc 79 Winter 2016  Marilyn Dumont outlines history in chalk dust

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Arc 78 Fall 2015  Listen to Arc's Spoken Word Issue

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Arc 77 Summer 2015  A Timely Event: Arc's 2015 Poem of the Year

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Arc 76 Winter 2015  Sylvia Legris is conspicuous

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Arc 75 Fall 2014  The Arc-Cordite Poetry Special Issue

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Arc 74 Summer 2014  Consider Arc's 2014 Poem of the Year

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Arc 73 Winter 2014  Introducing the up-and-comers issue

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Arc 72 Summer 2013  The North Issue

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Arc 71 Winter 2013  The big reveal: Arc's Poem of the Year

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Arc 70 Winter 2013  Rob Winger is rounding first

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Arc 69 Fall 2012  The children's poetry issue

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Arc 68 Summer 2012  Your 2012 Poems of the Year

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Arc 67 Winter 2012  John Steffler on lands new, left and found

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Arc 66 Summer 2011  Welcome to QuArc, where lit goes cosmic, atomic, microscopic

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Arc 65 Winter 2011  How do I hate thee, O sonnet? Chris Jennings counts the ways

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Arc 64 Summer 2010  True Words: new poems by Don Coles

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Arc 63 Winter 2010  How poets end poems (or how poems evade endings)

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Arc 62 Summer 2009  Ghazal mania: A guided tour by Rob Winger

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Arc 61 Winter 2009  The poets in this issue try on the pen name 'Anon'

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Arc 60 Summer 2008  Arc hits the big Three Oh - As do Pinocchio, Pugnax and some bards

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Arc 59 Winter 2008  Knocking on The Door: Starnino seeking Atwood

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Arc 58 Summer 2007  13 dead poets you should know but don't

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Arc 57 Winter 2006  Poem of the Year: Domanski's Picks

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Arc 56 Summer 2006  The bookworks of Peter Sanger and Thaddeus Holownia

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Arc 55  10th Annual Poem of the Year

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Arc 54  Summer 2005

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Arc 51  Ottawa Poetry Now

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Arc 50  Don Coles at 75

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Arc 47  Winter 2001

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Arc 46  Summer 2001

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Arc 45  Poem of the Year Contest

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Arc 44  The 99 Year Century

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Arc 43  Fourth Annual Poem of the Year Contest

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Arc 42  Spring 1999

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Arc 41  Third Annual Poem of the Year Contest Winners

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Arc 40  We All Begin In A Little Magazine

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Arc 39  Second Annual Poem of the Year Contest Winners

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Arc 38  An Issue of Belief

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Arc 37  Autumn 1996

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Arc 36  Spring 1996

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Arc 35  Odas, Suenos y Diáspora // Odes, Dreams, and Diaspora

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Arc 34  Spring 1995

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Arc 33  An Art Bestiary

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Arc 32  Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Canada

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Arc 31  Who's Afraid of Erin Mouré?

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Arc 30  15th Anniversary Issue

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Arc 29  Autumn 1992

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Arc 28  Spring 1992

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Arc 27  Impressions of Coach House Press

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Arc 26  The League of Canadian Poets

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Arc 23  Anne Szumigalski: Special Issue

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Arc 10  5th Anniversary Issue

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Arc 7  Autumn 1982

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Arc 4  A Women's Issue

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Arc 3  Spring 1980

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Arc 2  Spring 1979

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A black and white cover (except that the paper is slightly more yellow than white) with a circle of clear space surrounded by big, randomly-facing letters; inside the circle is information about the issue in small type, including that this is Arc 1

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Arc 1  Spring 1978

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