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The September Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Islands of Influence: Arc Poetry Magazine 96, the Fall 2021 Issue 2021’s Archibald Lampman Award Winner is… Deborah-Anne Tunney! Brandon Wint — ‘Radical Imagination’ The View from the Rear Window: A Different Wolf by Deborah-Anne Tunney “to pause is to work out what remains”: footlights by Pearl Pirie Airing Out Ghosts: Locked in Different Alphabets by Doris Fiszer The Moon’s Colours: Sensory and Emotional Precision: rushes from the river of disappointment by stephanie roberts Announcing the 2021 Diana Brebner Prize Winner and Honourable Mention Emptiness is Burden: Burden by Douglas Burnet Smith The October Award of Awesomeness! “From where does memory come?”: The Milk of Amnesia by Danielle Janess The August Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Memories on Roblin Lake, Ameliasburgh, Ontario: The Green Waves by Rob Taylor Beyond what is understood: Mythical Man by David Ly The Diana Breb­ner Prize Deadline has been Extended until September 10, 2021! The September Award of Awesomeness! The July Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . The Confederation Poets Prize & Critics’ Desk Award Winners for 2020 Fleshy Contact: A Number of Stunning Attacks by Jessi MacEachern “Gender, OK” by John Elizabeth Stintzi, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist The Acrobatics of Conveyance: Side Effects May Include Strangers by Dominik Parisien “Medusa Calls the Rape Crisis Line” by Cassandra Myers, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist “Confidentiality” by Tia McLennan, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist Archibald Lampman Award: the 2021 Shortlist CV2 Web Ad Swap “Lesbos / lesbos” by Annick MacAskill, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist The 2021 Judge for the Diana Brebner Prize will be… The August Award of Awesomeness! “Line of Demarcation” by Jake Byrne, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist Scrying for identity and the future in uncertain waters: Night Lunch by Mike Chaulk “si’ulq, pānī” by Moni Brar, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist POTY logo The June Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . “OFFERING” by Cassandra Myers, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist “OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD” by Isabella Wang, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist “Things To Do Around Toronto When You’re Black” by Michael Fraser, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist “All Hearts Feed Horses” by John Elizabeth Stintzi, from Arc’s 2021 Shortlist SpokenWord_sidebar In the Eye of a Whale: Outside, America by Sarah De Leeuw Calgary Distinguished Writers Program The July Award of Awesomeness! forest in my mind Word On The Street sept 2021 A Saturation of Violence: What Hurts Going Down by Nancy Lee The May Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . The Light Beyond the Cave: The Elem:ents (Nam:loz) by Erín Moure Domesticity and Time: The Knowing Animals by Emily Skov-Nielsen Piekuakami (The Lake): Spawn by Marie-Andreé Gill tr. Kristen Renee Miller

The Hero in the Jaws of the Serpent: The Mean Game by John Wall Barger Arc Poetry Magazine 95: Arc’s Summer 2021 Issue The June Award of Awesomeness! The April Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . A Love Like Glass: it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson In Relation to Pain: knot body by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch Subject: ZOM-FAM by Kama La Mackerel Intersection of Trauma and Desire: I Am A Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell The May Award of Awesomeness! From the Robot Apocalypse, backwards: The Cyborg Anthology by Lindsay B-e Poetry Week! The March Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Arc’s 2021 Poem of The Year Shortlist Arc Poetry Magazine 94: Arc’s Spring 2021 Issue Fierce Inventory A Vital Call from a Linguistic Explorer: Water from the Well by Helen Posno The Reverb of a Burning: Burning Sugar by Cicely Belle Blain Playful Melancholy: Saturn Peach by Lily Wang The April Award of Awesomeness! riverbedreads.ca Shaking the Tail: Ganymede’s Dog by John Emil Vincent Mess Is Poetry’s Mass: Music at the Heart of Thinking by Fred Wah Burning/from the inside out: SH:LAM (The Doctor) by Joseph A. Dandurand An Active Quietness: The House the Spirit Builds by Lorna Crozier, Peter Coffman and Diane Laundy An Orgy of the Imagination: As Far As You Know by A.F. Moritz The February Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . The March Award of Awesomeness! [An interface with the unspoken] If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson Quintessential Heroics: Crito Di Volta by Marc Di Saverio qwertyunb _sidebar The January Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Gourmet Ginger Ale and Modern Ails My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan by Nikki Reimer On the Poetics of Feelings “The whole description is fiction.” The Bones Are There by Kate Sutherland Undoing Orthodoxies: Kabir’s Jacket has a Thousand Pockets by Ayaz Pirani thewordonthestreet Call for Submissions: Arc’s “Islands of Influence” Issue The February Award of Awesomeness! Ninety-seven Troys and Twenty Ovids – Queer, Postcolonial Poetics Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling the Poem of the Year contest is CLOSED From One Treaty Person to Another: Treaty # by Armand Garnet Ruffo The December Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Transgressionary Norms: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay Whispers That Can Shatter Glass: Not One of These Poems Is About You by Teva Harrison Attempting Embedding Beards, Orchids and Hangers: Downtown Flirt by Peter Jickling “My bloodline outstretches rivers”: Divine Animal by Brandon Wint You Still Have Time to Win Our Biggest Poetry Prize! The January Award of Awesomeness!

The November Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . A Conceptual Lift-off: SKY WRI TEI NGS by Nasser Hussain A Visceral Transcendental Quest: Cult Life by Kyeren Regehr A Loving Bond: The Long Bond: Selected and New Poems by Allan Briesmaster Razors in Halloween Candy: Render by Sachiko Murakami city of Ottawa logo Sketching “A Glimmer of that Majesty”: Swoon by Elana Wolff nightlack / grieflung: A Cemetery for Holes by Tom Prime and Gary Barwin Taxonomy of Betrayal: Washes, Prays by Noor Naga Bearing Witness: Fresh Pack of Smokes by Cassandra Blanchard Deconstructing Prairie Lore: Vulgar Mechanics by K.B. Thors The December Award of Awesomeness! Lessons in Sorrow and Beauty: Folding Laundry on Judgment Day by Miller Adams Arc Poetry Magazine 93: Arc’s Fall 2020 Issue The October Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . A Lifetime Spent Scratching: We Were Like Everyone Else by Ken Victor Memory Through a Refracted Post-colonial Gaze: Against Forgetting by Keith Garebian The November Award of Awesomeness! The September Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Ambivalent Inheritance: my yt mama by Mercedes Eng Win the Canadian Magazine Scene’s Biggest Poetry Prize! 2020’s Archibald Lampman Award Winner is… Ben Ladouceur! Searching for Evidence of Ancestors: Following Sea by Lauren Carter In Support of Tawahum Bige This Place Does Not Forsake Itself: New Brunswick by Shane Neilson Simple Truths: The Dowager Empress by Adele Wiseman The October Award of Awesomeness! The August Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . One Man’s Embankment: Mad Long Emotion by Ben Ladouceur Poetic Tools Well Wielded: This Was the River by John Pass Like the Codex Seraphinianus: Unidentified Poetic Object by Brian Henderson The Polymorphous per Verse Call for Submissions The September Award of Awesomeness! The July Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . VerseFest ad 2020 Summer Opens Its Palm: Magnetic North by Jenna Butler The Confederation Poets Prize & Critics’ Desk Award Winners for 2019 The Voice of Water: This Is How We Disappear by Titilope Sonuga Archibald Lampman Award: the 2020 Shortlist Arc Poetry Magazine 92: Arc’s Summer 2020 Issue The 2020 Judge for the Diana Brebner Prize will be… “In Which Gwendolyn MacEwen Translates Émile Nelligan: II” by Grant Wilkins, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist The Arc Award of Awesomeness! “After Apple-Picking” by Melanie Power, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist The June Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . “Desire Lines” by Alison Braid, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist “remedies for cross Atlantic dispersion” by Melissa Davidson, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist A Portrait of the Poet as Tidalectic Sound Artist: Magnetic Equator by Kaie Kellough “Change is a Slow Erosion” by Leah MacLean-Evans, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist

“The Fish that Halved Water” by Alycia Pirmohamed, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist “Lake Baptiste Ungenders Me” by Cassandra Myers, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist “Even the Smallest” by Kirsteen MacLeod, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist Everything, This Near: Field Notes for the Self by Randy Lundy “Brora” by Richard Sanger, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist “The James Earl Jones Effect” by Síle Englert, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist “Hold Me In The Palm Of Your Mind” by Kyla Jamieson, from Arc’s 2020 Shortlist A Dazzling Multi-Media Response to Our Changing Climate: River Revery by Penn Kemp Relearning to Look: Year of the Metal Rabbit by Tammy Armstrong The Arc Award of Awesomeness! A Girl Like You: Dunk Tank by Kayla Czaga And the Second Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Black Lives Matter Statement on Arc 93 prairiefire spring-promo Sonnet Fever: Sonnet’s Shakespeare by Sonnet L’Abbé Calgary Distinguished Writers Program 2020 The Arc Award of Awesomeness! the Gender Trash Call for Submissions freedomtoread.ca Rewriting the Rational: Drolleries by Cassidy McFadzean And the Winner of the First Ever “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . 100 Trillion Neutrinos Flow Through Your Body Every Second: Midday at the Super-Kamiokande by Matthew Tierney Haunting Winnipeg: St. Boniface Elegies by Catherine Hunter Montage of Life: Flourish by Jacqueline Turner Myth and Logo: All Day I Dream About Sirens by Domenica Martinello Writing the Watershed: The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology by Karen Houle Song of Himself: Midlife Action Figure by Chris Banks The Arc Award of Awesomeness! Walking Into A Still Life Painting: A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl by M. Travis Lane VOTING IS CLOSED on Arc’s 2020 Poem of The Year Shortlist The Poetic Anatomy: Unfurl by Klara du Plessis The Arc Award of Awesomeness! Arc Poetry Magazine 91: Arc’s Spring 2020 Issue A poetic love letter to Ottawa: A halt, which is empty by rob mclennan The art of survival, the art of healing: Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry ed. Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme Looking In, Looking Out: The Gods of East Wawanosh by Marilyn Gear Pilling Call for Members: Arc’s Diversity Committee Arc Poetry Magazine Call for Submissions in Response to MMIWG field notes for the self Deadline Extended! Enter the Poem of the Year Contest until February 15th Light through the Trees: Dark Woods by Richard Sanger Lucas Crawford Reclaims Trans Bodies: The High Line Scavenger Hunt by Lucas Crawford Hitting the Mark: Near Miss by Laura Matwichuk When “The Spring Light is Like Glass”: Ledi by Kim Trainor Flexing the Poetry Muscle: Twitch Force by Michael Redhill Malahat Review _sidebar

“the groundwork remains”: Cluster by Souvankham Thammavongsa Win the Canadian Magazine Scene’s Biggest Poetry Prize Entirely Human: The Broken Face by Russell Thornton Flowing through the Cracks: river woman by Katherena Vermette Creating Possibilities for Survival: Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha More Talk and More Action: What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation edited by Rob Taylor Nothing to Spare: Book of Annotations by Cameron Anstee Arc Poetry Magazine 90: Arc’s “Labour and Livelihood” Issue (Fall 2019) A Stillness of Strangers: Entrainment by Ewan Whyte Hoarding “Our Little Commotions”: Heather Cadsby’s Standing in the Flock of Connections Announcing the 2019 Diana Brebner Prize Winner and Honourable Mention A Society of Dead Poets: Insult to the Brain Nicola Vulpe Poetry as Myth-Making: Sit How You Want Robin Richardson Gone to the Dogs: Welcome to the Anthropocene Alice Major Arc Poetry Magazine 89: Arc’s Summer 2019 Issue Agnus Terrestrium: Lamb Michael Kenyon “Loose Jewels” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist “The Thimble’s Bucket List” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist “Dwelling” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist Connecting Threads of Grief, Remembrance, and Poetry: Obits. Tess Liem “This is What Happens” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist “The Imaging Department” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist “Snow Day Poem” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist “O, Death” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist

“Frank Slide” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist Archibald Lampman Award: the 2019 Shortlist “Interview with a spawning salmon on the kagawong river” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist Dancing with Wings: Listening to the Bees Mark L. Winston and Renée Sarojini Saklikar “Postpartum” from Arc’s 2019 Shortlist Everything Is Something Else and Back Again: Stereoblind Emma Healey Under the Microscope: It’s a Big Deal! Dina Del Bucchia Contemplation for the Unchurched: Years, Months, and Days Amanda Jernigan That Old Drunk’s Place: Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy edited by Howard White and Emma Skagen Poems that Span the Void: the bridge from day to night David Zieroth Rich and Impossibly Legion: The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry edited by Jim Johnstone Calling all Poets: Arc’s Fall 2019 Themed Issue (CLOSED) An Extravagant Mind: Erin Robinsong’s Rag Cosmology Arc’s 2019 Poem of The Year Shortlist Arc Poetry Magazine 88: Arc’s Spring 2019 Issue Arc is at VerseFest in 2019! Renaissance Clockwork: Aaron Giovannone’s The Nonnets Earnestly into the Future: Paul Vermeersch’s Self Defence for the Brave and Happy Poem of the Year — deadline extended until February 15th! Calgary Distinguished Writers Program Book*Hug Press 2019 This Human Pharmacopoeia: Jim Johnstone’s The Chemical Life You can STILL WIN the Canadian Magazine Scene’s Biggest Poetry Prize

How Soon Is Now?: Spencer Butt’s Slouching the Dream Arc’s nominations for The Pushcart Prize Arc Poetry Magazine 87: A Celebration of Poetry from the U.S.A. Wilding Land Acknowledgements: Phoebe Wang’s Admission Requirements After All These Years: Laisha Rosnau’s Our Familiar Hunger The Diana Brebner Prize, Confederation Poets Prize & Critics’ Desk Award Winners for 2018 Power to the Period: Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon, and Tanis MacDonald GUSH: Menstrual Manifestos for Our Times Even If They’re Not What You Would Have Wanted: Ian Williams editor of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2018 Persona Poems for the Outraged: Michael Fraser’s To Greet Yourself Arriving Win the Canadian Magazine Scene’s Biggest Poetry Prize 2018’s Archibald Lampman Award Winner is… Christine McNair! Fragile and Heavy Ho-Hums: Jay Ritchie’s Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie Hierarchies, The Northern Harrier Hawk The Rough Business of Emerging: Allison LaSorda’s Stray A Vessel for Shared Experiences: Baziju’s Box Kite Inside the Blind: On Editing Poetry With the Ears of Wolves Karen Enns’ Cloud Physics Remembering Abe: Kevin Spenst’s Ignite The 2018 Archibald Lampman Award Shortlist Arc Poetry Magazine’s Summer 2018 Issue is our 40th Anniversary Catch Your Breath: Susan Telfer’s Ghost Town Being Here Now: Phillip Crymble’s Not Even Laughter Why You Are My Hiding Place (Leah Horlick) is on Arc’s Shortlist

Why How Soon, How Likely, How Severe (Shaun Robinson) is on Arc’s Shortlist Why Women’s work (Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang) is on Arc’s Shortlist Why Otters (Ashley Hynd) is on Arc’s Shortlist Feeding Iris Strawberries Why Couple Flying Over Village (Leah Horlick) is on Arc’s Shortlist for New Gatekeepers Why The Purity Detector (Alex Leslie) is on Arc’s Shortlist cv2 young buck 2018 Why Deforestation (Alessandra Naccarato) is on Arc’s Shortlist Why Fuji, Baby (Laura Matwichuk) is on Arc’s Shortlist Spoken Arc Home Page Why SHINE (Lynne Burnett) is on Arc’s Shortlist Why side track (Su Croll) is on Arc’s Shortlist Tongue-in-Cheek Stoic: Mark Sampson’s Weathervane VOTING CLOSED on Arc’s Poem of The Year Shortlist Poetry is a Social Art Arc Poetry Magazine’s Winter 2018 Issue Arc Walks Coteau Banner 1 Statement on Arc’s Code of Ethics Riffled and Recoiling: Jan Conn’s Tomorrow’s Bright White Light The Poetry of Mortality: Evelyn Lau’s Tumour Arc in Transition

Fiddlehead There’s Stuff Between Things: Aisha Sasha John’s I have to live Job Posting: Operations Officer – Arc Poetry Magazine Poets gather in Laureate City to celebrate Canada’s 150! Giving Voice: Gary Geddes’s The Resumption of Play This Year, Win the Canadian Magazine Scene’s Biggest Poetry Prize On the Road Behind: André Narbonne’s You Were Here POTY sidebar November 2017 The Sound Reconciliation Makes: Janet Rogers’ Totem Poles and Railroads Janet Rogers — Confederation 150 Reneltta Arluk — Artist Spotlight “I have been here forever and I will rise again”: Femininity, Race, and Resilience in Jόnína Kirton’s An Honest Woman 2018 Ottawa Book Awards – Note to Authors “A Gift No NDN” or Anyone Else “Should Waste”: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s This Accident of Being Lost. Madmen and Specialists: George Elliott Clarke’s Canticles I (MMXVI) Arc Poetry Magazine presents the Ottawa Poetry Awards Reading Arc Poetry Magazine 84: “Oh Canada, We Have Issues.” Duty of Care Laid Bare: Shane Neilson’s Dysphoria Poetry in a Disconnected and Imperilled World: Adèle Barclay’s If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You Snark, Slogans, and Found Text: Kevin Connolly’s Xiphoid Process A Fearsome Spectacle: Kate Sutherland’s How to Draw a Rhinoceros World Happiness Report: Lori Cayer’s Dopamine Blunder Collating glitch – Arc 83 Follow the lanterns to Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2017 Poem of the Year contest winner 30 After 30 Under 30 Andre Fenton’s “Ode to Teen Angst” reviewed by Rebecca Thomas Great News and New Views at Arc Poetry Magazine Haiku Juju Satori Delight: Mark Frutkin’s Hermit Thrush A-Frame Residency 2018 Call A 21st Century Guide to the Mind-Body [Problem] of Print: Robert Bringhurst’s Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface Like Gifts You Never Asked For: Sue MacLeod’s Mood Swing, with Pear

Igloos on Trees: Joe Rosenblatt’s The Bird in the Stillness: Forest Devotionals Measured Pleasures: Alexandra Oliver’s Let the Empire Down cv2 ad sub drive 2017 Approximations on Target: Steven Heighton’s The Waking Comes Late Determiners and Indeterminacy: Andy Weaver’s this Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate sells gold for gold: George Elliott Clarke’s Gold 20 Poems: Clint Burnham’s Pound @ Guantánamo Oathing / Opening: Sandra Ridley’s Silvija VOTING CLOSED on Arc’s Poem of The Year Shortlist! Adrift in Adulthood: Vincent Colistro Late Victorians Books Received in 2016 Walking Through the Darkness: Margo Wheaton’s The Unlit Path Behind the House Arc Poetry Magazine’s Winter 2017 Issue Want to get involved? “Tell I the Truth:” Rachel Rose’s Marry & Burn A Flashing Light in the Darkness: Kim Fu’s How Festive the Ambulance Coteau Banner 2 A Rich Salt Wind: Michael Crummey’s Little Dogs Who’s Afraid of Orpheus and Eurydice?: Christian Bök’s The Xenotext Book 1 The Poetry of the Pillow: Suzanne Buffam’s A Pillow Book Some Monsters are Beautiful: K. I. Press’s Exquisite Monsters A Medium-Size Critique of Short Sentences: Alice Burdick’s Book of Short Sentences Offroading: The Path Taken in Terry Ann Carter’s On the Road to Naropa – My Love Affair with Jack Kerouac You Make Love Like A Horse On the Parthenon: Andy McGuire’s Country Club Poem of the Year contest deadline held over until February 13 Like It Means Anything: Samuel Andreyev’s The Relativistic Empire Grace & Resistance in a Drone’s-Eye View: Nick Thran’s Mayor Snow Event contest web ad A Non-Fall in the Dark: Nicole Brossard’s Ardour Words Lodged in Muscle and Bone: Lee Maracle’s Talking to the Diaspora