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The Earthen Parts of Pain and Joy: Kelsey Andrews’ Big Sky Falling

Saturday Sep 24, 2022 — Kelsey Andrews’s debut collection is grounded in the body, in the mind, and in nature, whether the landscape is prairie, West Coast, or the B.C. interior. The poems also move through a grittier cityscape that mirrors interior struggles. Crows lead a speaker “along twisting paths” (“Not Much”). Navigating this labyrinth involves elements of both joy and pain. Read More

Announcing the 2022 Diana Brebner Prize Winner and Honourable Mention!

Friday Sep 23, 2022 — Winner: “Curfew” by John Geddes 2022 Judge Bardia Sinaee had this to say:

“'Curfew' stands out for its lucidity and mystery. Rifles are being handed out, lines are being drawn. The light has been shattered, so we have to rely on what we can hear: the rasp of metal being dragged across asphalt, a boy's voice straining for a man's pitch. The details are so granular, yet there is a dreadful ambiguity here. The scene is placeless, timeless, and unforgettable.”

An excerpt from “Curfew”

Again with nightfall stones fly here and there, one lucky throw nailing a porch light, its warm cone inhaled up into the nostril where the struck glass shattered; the filament, drenched in oxygen, drowns like a kitten.

John Geddes is an Ottawa writer who has tried his hand at lots of different kinds of writing. As a political journalist, he's won National Magazine Awards and Harvard's Nieman Fellowship. His novel "The Sundog Season" won the Ottawa Book Award. Last year, he picked up a Digital Publishing Award for a personal essay about the Nazi past of a Viennese painting in the National Gallery's collection. Most recently, the Irish literary quarterly The Moth published one of John's short stories. Read More

The August winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . .

Monday Sep 12, 2022 —

Anna Swanson for the poem "Maybe a Body"!

2022 News & Annoucements

The June Award of Awesomeness! The April winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . No yard lights for miles, like an eye put out: Sheri Benning’s Field Requiem Field Notes: M.C. Warrior’s Disappearing Minglewood Blues House Calls: Tamar Rubin’s Tablet Fragments The May Award of Awesomeness! The March Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Luminous with Love: Blaine Marchand’s Becoming History: A Life Told Through Poetry Arc’s 2022 Poem of The Year Shortlist The April Award of Awesomeness! “Dear Piano,” by Oleksii Buznitskyi The February Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . Celebrating Diana Brebner: Arc Poetry Magazine 97, the Spring 2022 Issue lampman-prize diana-brebner-prize The January Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . The March Award of Awesomeness! arc event poster They Arrested the Windows: Changing the Face of Canadian Literature, edited by Dane Swan Scorpions and Surgeries: Intruder by Bardia Sinaee The February Award of Awesomeness! The Poem of the Year Contest is now CLOSED Tales and lore like language: cold press moon by Dennis Cooley Self-Portrait in Shadow and Light: A Map of Rain Days by Jennifer Hosein The December Winner of the “Arc Award of Awesomeness” is . . . A Defiant Discordance of Detritus: Niagara & Government by Phil Hall “Our Telling Teaching Us This”: The World is Mostly Sky by Sarah Ens To Tell One’s Name: A New Take on Ghost Face by Greg Santos You Still Have Time to Win Our Biggest Poetry Prize! A Song from the House of Moans: The Wig-Maker by Janet Gallant & Sharon Thesen SpokenWord_sidebar moorehype U of Regina Press online ad – Sept 17 to Nov 17

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2016 News & Annoucements

Twilight from Denmark: Ulrikka S. Gernes’s Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments Lush 2017 – subTerrain More Lives Than This Plain Desperation: Carolyn Smart’s Careen Less is More: Or, Five Reasons Why You Should Pack Poetry in Your Survival Kit for the End of Days cv2 ad exchange 2017 Rock Blanket After the End of Damian Rogers’s Dear Leader Lyric Catastrophe: How to Write Poetry at the End of the World The Poetics of Biophilia: Basma Kavanagh’s Niche Hanging in the Air like a Heart Balloon: Sheryda Warrener’s Floating is Everything Tenderly Urgent: Kim Trainor’s Karyotype A Memorable Stroll Through David Mcfadden’s Mind: David W. McFadden’s Abnormal Brain Sonnets arc angels Backslash Icarus: Portamento Poetics in Joshua Trotter Mission Creep Room 2016 contest web ad Don’t Look Away: Soraya Peerbaye’s Tell (poems for a girlhood) Arc Poetry Magazine 81: Art in the End Times Palimpset Press Malahat long poem Prize 2016 Pummelling the Enemy Volta: Jeanette Lynes’ Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems Left Reaching: John Wall Barger’s The Book of Festus I Know The Sound Letting Go Makes: Jeff Steudel’s Foreign Park If You See Something, Say Something: nancy viva davis halifax’s hook Poetry in the Courtroom: Sue Goyette’s The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl Myth Intentions: Earth and Heaven: An Anthology of Myth Poetry, edited by Luke Hathaway and Evan Jones New Tricks for Old Dogs: Méira Cook’s Monologue Dogs Against Equations: Bruce Meyer’s The Arrow of Time Matt Peake — Things I Want in the Divorce Poems with Backbone: Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year Traveling Light: Monica Kidd’s The Year of Our Beautiful Exile THIN AIR WINNIPEG Young Buck CV2 2016 Twinning and Twining: Ali Blythe’s Twoism Maynard How A Poet Must Submission Deadline Extended in light of Malware Attack on the Arc Website Pressures that Refine: Zachariah Wells’ Sum prairie fire 2016 contest web ad Brick’s web ad for 97

QuArc Lesson Plan: Scientific Method Irreducible Truths: Ian Burgha's Midnight Monumental into Personal: Alice Major's Standard candles PRISM Presents… Showing Us the Rings: Elena Johnson's Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra These Currents That Exceed Us: Daniel Renton’s Milk Teeth George Elliott Clarke — An Introduction to the Late Revolution in ‘Haiti’: By Abraham Lincoln (1834) Congratulations, Lesley Fletcher, newly appointed Executive Director of the League of Canadian Poets! Lorca or the Plumber? A Theory of the Artist in Jake Kennedy’s Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play Artfulness & the Secret Story: Melissa Bull’s Rue Alarming Testimony: John Terpstra’s This Orchard Sound John Sibley Williams The Narrative Poetry of Witness: Emily Pohl-Weary’s Ghost Sick VOTE on Arc's Poem of The Year Shortlist! Trust Your Surroundings: Entering the Rooms of Raoul Fernandes’ Transmitter and Receiver Blodwyn Memorial Prize Love Poems: Lorna Crozier’s The Wrong Cat Imagining a Legacy: Elise Partridge's The Exiles’ Gallery Erratum: Arc 79 Crow Watching Whiskey Gap, Alberta POTY 2016 Reader's Choice How difficult could it be to stay here?: Karen Solie’s The Road In Is Not The Same Road Out CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Run, Reader, Run: Peter Norman's The Gun That Starts the Race A Human Miscellany: Jesse Patrick Ferguson’s Mr. Sapiens Maisonneuve subscription campaign Arc Poetry Magazine's Winter 2016 Issue Wringing a Soft Neck: Roxanna Bennett’s The Uncertainty Principle Raw Precision: Eva H.D.’s Rotten Perfect Mouth Poem of the Year Contest Extended Deadline: February 14th, 2016! Their Elephant is Longing for Hindustan: Nilofar Shidmehr’s Between Lives 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize Experience as Concept: Shane Book’s Congotronic Capilano Review Small Caps In the lamia city: Steven Artelle’s Metropantheon Real Pictures Are of Nothing: Erín Moure’s Кaпycтa / Kapusta verse fest 2017

2015 News & Annoucements

Suffering and Seduction: Priscila Uppal’s Sabotage To write a black poem: Austin Clarke’s In Your Crib Greater than the sum of our calories: Claire Caldwell’s Invasive Species New Quarterly Occasional Verse Contest A Lavish Spread: Naomi Guttman’s The Banquet of Donny & Ari In/Words Refug(e) Ad Fishing, Small-town Drunks and other poems: Gillian Wigmore’s Orient Hearing with your heart: David Zieroth’s Albrecht Dürer and Me Arc Angels Ad Congratulations to Arc's contributors who appear in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2015! Two-Handers: Don Coles’ A Serious Call 2015's Poem of the Year Contest is Full of Surprises! No Small Job: Robyn Sarah’s Pause for Breath A different way of being: Rita Bouvier’s nakamowin’sa for the seasons Arc Poetry Magazine's Spoken Word Issue Everything lifted up in time: Jeff Latosik’s Safely Home Pacific Western bill bissett – rush: what fuckan theory, a study uv language Ian Keteku — My Job Zaccheus Jackson — City of Fingers The Deadpan Centre Continues: Liz Howard’s Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Best Seen from the Knees: Patrick Lane’s Washita The Search for Wonder: A. F. Moritz’s Sequence I am not a storyteller/though I do keep a lot in my heart: Jalal Barzanji's Trying Again to Stop Time. Wild Witness: Patrick Friesen’s A Short History of Crazy Bone Penn Kemp — Xtra Text/ure Aaron Simm — Mickey Mouse Sebastien Wen — Scavengers Time Falls on its Knees: Deanna Young’s House Dreams Arc 77 – Canada's Simple Alternatives Poetry Magazine Building a Foundation within the Trimmings: Cassidy McFadzean’s Hacker Packer Arc Poetry Magazine announces Lampman Award finalists Necessarily Unnatural: Jamie Sharpe’s Cut-Up Apologetic The Ego Has Landed: C.R. Avery’s Some Birds Walk For The Hell Of It Janet Rogers – Human Dynamic Activity Ian Ferrier – O My Sisters Kaie Kellough – RAIL Robert Priest – Working Your O’s RC Weslowski – If Language is a Virus Moe Clark – namoya Mary Pinkoski – Four Leaf Clover

Already Passing Through: Roland Prevost’s Singular Plurals Fracked-Up Settler Poetry: Janey’s Arcadia by Rachel Zolf A Different Realm: Entering Kerry-Lee Powell’s Inheritance 2015 Diana Brebner Prize: winner and runner-up announced Biography in Verse: George Elliott Clarke’s Traverse Take It, and Go On: Matthew Zapruder’s Sun Bear Read the Poem of the Year in Arc 77! Between-Space, Beforehand and Unseparated: Ken Babstock’s On Malice A Beautiful and Understated Object: Jan Zwicky's Vittoria Colonna: Selections from the Rime Spirituali Still Life, Sotto Voce: Karen Enns’ Ordinary Hours Two Muses: Susan Paddon’s Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths Magnifying Language: Dennis Cooley’s abecedarium The Elizabeth Bishop House Seeing Clearly, Looking Deeply: Len Gasparini’s Mirror Image A living thing, with ghosts: Shoshanna Wingate’s Radio Weather Detonation from Contrast: Ella Zelterserman’s Small things left behind From Out-And-Out Hilarious to Dry, Wry, and Simply Playful: Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry Striving and Sprawling: Garth Martens’ Prologue to the Age of Consequence A Difficult Fluency: What Kayla Czaga Can’t Tell Us in For Your Safety Please Hold On Memories and Much More: Andrea MacPherson’s Ellipses Breathing and Noticing: Brian Bartlett’s Ringing Here and There Apocalypse Happens: An iteration of the end in Sarah Lang’s For Tamara Readers' Choice 2015 VOTE CLOSED From the Emptying Fullness: Jane Munro’s Blue Sonoma Blood’s Integrity: Tom Wayman’s Winter’s Skin Arc 76: Canada's Squirming Creature Poetry Magazine Our Grief Transformed: Sina Queyras’ MxT Diana Brebner Prize Chapbook Reviews Column A Story is a Legacy: Elizabeth Greene’s Understories Arc's Poem-of-the-Year contest is now closed Walking the Line: Wanda Praamsma’s a thin line between Down the Rabbit Hole: Erina Harris’s The Stag Head Spoke Found Inspiration: Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s Status Update A Grab Bag of Fab Frags: Stephen Brockwell’s Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books Footer Ad 1 Geist Postcard Contest Great Piles of Life: Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott’s Decomp No Easy Answers: Catherine Graham's Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects

2014 News & Annoucements

The Limits of Energy: Richard Norman’s Zero Kelvin Aurelia by John Hawke Getting Anne Back by Jennifer Maiden Kissing ghosts by Samuel Wagan Watson Circling the Bulb: Anne-Marie Turza’s The Quiet The Emperor of Kennings: Peter Richardson’s Bit Parts for Fools metal against metal by Claire Gaskin A line from Colin McCahon by Mark Young An Introduction to a New Game by Peter Boyle Unraveling Her Riddles: Joanna Lilley’s The Fleece Era Sentient by Amanda Stewart Arc hits 4000 submissions per year Great Torc by Tracy Ryan Questioning Your Masculinity by Rachael Briggs Addressing the Sea: Niki Koulouris’s The Sea with no one in it Hobart Time by Jan Owen descent by Susan Hawthorne dreams & fancies by Jessica Wilkinson Oh, Humanity: JonArno Lawson’s Enjoy it While it Hurts Falling for Glenn Gould by Dominique Hecq Legoland by Nathan Curnow Arc's Distributing Presents! gummy by Joanne Burns The deepest of loves: Jude Neale’s A Quiet Coming of Light Snow by Eileen Chong The Arc-Cordite Poetry Special Issue (iv) by Dan Disney The Arc-Cordite Poetry Special Issue shadow apple south by Paul Hardacre Book of Flames: Australian Love Poems 2013 Dangled Bait: Tim Bowling’s Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief Close to Spirit: E. D. Blodgett’s as if Arc Poetry Magazine/Tree Reading Series offer poetry master-class workshops. Ottawa Book Awards 2015 – Note to Authors The Ghost Resurrected (Despite Some Fumbling): Charlotte Rampling Reads Sylvia Plath to the music of Benjamin Britten Fake Tornadoes: Adrienne Weiss’ There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore An Act of Prestidigitation: Ricardo Sternberg’s Some Dance Arc's Distributing Presents! Tending Wounds: Fionncara MacEoin’s Not the First Thing I’ve Missed Arc presents Ottawa Poetry Awards Reading at Pressed

Hard Looking: Richard Greene's Dante's House Wrestling with Location: Laurie D. Graham’s Rove Calling Through the Cold: Allan Cooper and Harry Thurston’s The Deer Yard Who Can Resist?: bpNichol’s Organ Music His Time, His Place: The Essential Tom Marshall selected by David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje Rich Biodiversity in a Parallel Universe: Don Domanski's Bite Down Little Whisper Corresponding with Loss: Memory and mourning in Anne Michaels’ Correspondences The Changed Meaning of Love: John Barton's For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin Far from Mystery: Barry Dempster's Invisible Dogs Navigating Shifting Currents: Tanis Rideout’s Arguments with the Lake A Vision to Rebuild: Maleea Acker’s Air-Proof Green Tongue Luck: Jeffery Donaldson’s Slack Action Laughing Towards Apocalypse: Al Rempel’s This Isn’t the Apocalypse We Hoped For Heartfelt and Urgent: Pamela Porter’s Late Moon I Love an Old Story: Joanne Arnott’s A Night for the Lady Spin the Bottle by Gaslight: Robin Richardson’s Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis Job Posting: Coordinating Editor, Arc Poetry Magazine My Shard-Studded Clubfeet Blaze Me Astray: Marc Di Saverio’s Sanatorium Songs Picking Up the Pieces: Ann Shin’s The Family China National Poetry Month: Marilyn Dumont – "the land she came from" How Could You Not Like Me?: Elizabeth Bachinsky’s The Hottest Summer in Recorded History National Poetry Month: Sebastien Wen "Welcome to the Cosmos" Polls closed for POTY Reader's Choice The Dancing Body: Juleta Severson-Baker’s Incarnate Sundry Labours and Rose Windows: Luke Hathaway’s All the Daylight Hours Necessary Voices: Kanina Dawson’s Masham Means Evening Poem of the Year update An Emerging Connoisseur: Daniel Karasik’s Hungry Weight, Rise and Riffle: Jordan Abel’s Exuberant Excisions in The Place of Scraps Slow Down and Listen: Lola Lemire Tostevin’s Singed Wings here is cinema/here is cinema*: Stephen Scobie’s At the limit of breath: Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard Flux and Circadian Renewal: Carmelita McGrath’s Escape Velocity Historical and Personal: Vancy Kasper’s Rebel Women Addictive: Katerina Fretwell’s Class Acts Room Canadian Gothic Call Malahat Novella Prize 2016 The Long Game: David O’Meara’s A Pretty Sight Dazzling Irrelevance: Jay MillAr’s Timely Irreverence Could you be Arc's next Poet-In-Residence? A World Clad in Brutality: Rachel Lebowitz’s Cottonopolis

2013 News & Annoucements

In Constant Fall: Morten Søndergaard’s A Step in the Right Direction Entirely Askew: Jamie Sharpe’s Animal Husbandry Today “I spoke to you in yarns”: Emily McGiffin’s Between Dusk and Night Sexual Wilderness: Sarah de Leeuw’s Geographies of a Lover Diana Brebner Prize Archibald Lampman Award – previous winners You Will Find Hunger: Clea Roberts’s Here is Where We Disembark The Poetry of Revolution: Stephen Collis’s To the Barricades Visual Art in Arc’s North Issue: Maria Hupfield Where will we end up?!: Jacqueline Turner’s The Ends of the Earth Oral Poetry: "Elizabeth's Song" by Makkus Penashue Boiling Joy: Jason Heroux’s Natural Capital Critic’s Desk Award 2013 Winners! Strange Terrains: Mari-Lou Rowley’s Unus Mundus Filling in the Gaps: Laurie Kruk’s My Mother Did Not Tell Stories There is no Spring without Baseball: Dwayne Brenna’s Stealing Home Blood Was Beating: Ludwig Zeller’s The Rules of the Game The Journey Itself: Adeena Karasick’s This Poem Variety and Longevity: George Seferis’s Collected Poems From Coping to Community: Amber Dawn’s How Poetry Saved My Life Hard Fought: David Groulx’s A Difficult Beauty A Risky Affair: Brad Cran’s Ink on Paper Intimate-driven, Chaotic, Incarcerating: Christine McNair’s Conflict From Strength to Strength: Mark Callanan & James Langer’s The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry Risk: rob mclennan’s Songs for little sleep In Constant Flux: David Seymour’s For Display Purposes Only In a Deep Place: Jenna Butler’s Wells Polished, Varied, and Often Anxious: Stewart Cole’s Questions in Bed Wherever She Chooses to Sail: Eleonore Schönmaier’s Wavelengths of Your Song Another Battle in Service of the War: Donato Mancini’s You Must Work Harder to Write the Poetry of Excellence Mood and Metaphor: Steven Price’s Omens in the Year of the Ox lost & found (unmade poems) Wing It: John Wing’s Almost Somewhere Else Worlds Within Words: Susan Steudel’s New Theatre With Eyes Open: Nancy Holmes’s The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems Arc 71: The Big Reveal Brick Dust in my Wine: Chris Hutchinson’s A Brief History of the Short-Lived Arc is Canadian Poetry; Arc is Online! Dividing Times: Allan Safarik’s Famous Roadkill

To Know Differently: Maureen Scott Harris’ Slow Curve Out Dust Maps: Brenda Schmidt’s Grid Tough Times, Tough Voice: Tom Wayman’s Dirty Snow More Books for Your Buck Reuse and Recycle: Finding Poetry in Canada: the full essay from Arc 70 Leah Hervoly’s “Red Truck” The Finest in Fan Poetry: Walschots' DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains A Generous Book with an Unfriendly Face: Erín Moure’s The Unmemntioable Julie Paul's "Spring" The Truth in Mimicry: Asa Boxer's Skullduggery An Old Tale Well Told: C.R. Avery's 38 Bar Blues The Best Canadian Poetry 2012: Congratulations to Arc's authors! Gregory Betts's "april is the cruellest month" If National Poetry Month was April's umbrella Plucking a Stray Breeze: Stuart Ross’s You Exist. Details Follow. Poem of the Year: Readers' Choice The wind between worlds: Katherine Bitney’s Firewalk Submission Guide From the Eye to the Alphabet: Victor Coleman’s ivH: An Alphamath Serial The World, Our Current Arrangement: Matthew Tierney’s Probably Inevitable Arc 71 Another Link in the Chain: Walid Bitar’s Divide and Rule Excerpt from Arc 70: Reuse and Recycle: Finding Poetry in Canada Not all is on fire: Patrick Woodcock’s Echo Gods and Silent Mountains It’s official: Poetry-in-a-box coming to schools across Canada Worlds at the Brink: Jan Conn’s Edge Effects A place dark enough to see: Susan Gillis’ The Rapids Archibald Lampman Award Accomplished Poems for the Senses: Dina E. Cox’s small flames Arc Poetry Annual 2013: The North The Alchemist in the Engineer: Linda Besner’s The Id Kid Buy Two Canadian Magazine Subscriptions, Get One Free! In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: Lisa Pasold’s Any Bright Horse The Anxiety of Failure: Jenny Sampirisi’s Croak Arc – putting poetry in classrooms Arc 69: Canada's Childlike, Wildlike Poetry Magazine Arc 70: Canada's Cracking, Shearing Poetry Magazine A wide canvas: Weyman Chan's Chinese Blue Arc 70

2012 News & Annoucements

Diana Breb Implications of impermanence: Moez Surani's Floating Life Hypnotic structures: three works by E.D. Blodgett Touching, disconcerting vignettes: Goran Simić’s Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman An outtakes album by your favourite musician: David W. McFadden’s What’s the Score? It won’t help poetry’s reputation for being difficult: derek beaulieu’s How to Write Telling and untelling: Oana Avasilichioaei’s We, Beasts Get Canadian Poetry into Canadian Classrooms from Coast-to-Coast! November night in your teeth Congratulations to the 2012 finalists for the Archibald Lampman Award Arc 69: Fall 2012 Criticism, craft, and Miss Virginia: David McGimpsey’s Li’l Bastard A sceptic’s eye for human triumph: Sharon Thesen’s Oyama Pink Shale Loss and language: Sue Goyette’s outskirts Maybe the opposite: Jacob McArthur Mooney’s Folk Carleton University Writing Contest Pitch your tent: Carleton Wilson The Material Sublime Fancy titles to common parts Looking for ways to start again: Jack Hannan’s Some Frames Summer of (Arc) 68: 2012 Poem of the Year Arc 68

The Summer of (Arc) 68: Michael Boughn 2012 Poem of the Year Diane Brebner Prize Laurels Enough: The Griffin Prize Anthology 2012 Griffin finalist poised for a hat trick: Phil Hall's Killdeer Griffin finalist aspires to the condition of music: Jan Zwicky's Forge Griffin finalist takes us on a wonderful ride: Ken Babstock's Methodist Hatchet Steely control: Catherine Owen's Seeing Lessons More Books for Your Buck Arc up for two National Magazine Awards! Delight and brilliant imagery: Jen Currin's The Inquisition Yours Clarity from complexity: Rob Winger's The Chimney Stone 2012 Poem of the Year An alphabet of knots: kevin mcpherson eckhoff's Rhapsodomancy Children of the revolution: Margaret Christakos' Welling Diana Brebner Prize Call for submissions: children's poetry issue Poet Vs Poet online: Douglas on the 2010 Best Canadian Diana Brebner Prize celebrates the talents of emerging poets Books Received 2011 Confederation Poets Prize

2011 News & Annoucements

New Job Postings – Managing Editor and Administrative Assistant Arc 67 Poet Vs Poet online: Lina Chartrand Poet vs. Poet online: Leifso on the 2010 Lampman shortlist Poet vs. Poet online: Keeney on the 2010 GG shortlist Paul Tyler wins 2011 Lampman! That dash and turn like glitter Poem of the Year Contest Secrets and verse Quarclet: Matthew Tierney Quarclet: Danielle Devereaux (bis) Quarclet: First lady of the environment Quarclet: Patricia Young Quarclet: Wayne Clifford Quarclet: The Poetics of Big Oil Arc 66: The Quarc Issue Protected: Penn Kemp – "Xtra Text/ure" Protected: Aaron Simm – "Mickey Mouse"

And the winners are… Coalescence between the audio and visual: Kaie Kellough's Maple Leaf Rag Arc poets at the National Magazine Awards Arc Annual 2011 Arc Annual 2011: Lesson Plan "Poem as long as life": Ken Belford’s Decompositions More Books for Your Buck Arc and Arcers shortlisted for National Magazine Awards Arc 65 cover artist exhibition at Mendel Gallery Lit mags thriving in print Don't pick on the sonnet Illuminates human need, by the season: Susan Briscoe's The Crow’s Vow When Gillian Wallace won Brebner Prize, Guerilla.ca was there "Momentum" by Frances Boyle Brebner 2010 Prize winning Poem: "Lee Krasner's Grey Period" by Robyn Jeffrey Sleepless nights and botched love affairs you want to read about: Elisabeth Harvor's An Open Door in the Landscape On ekphrasis, with Aislinn Hunter Lane tough as ever, but throwing the same old punches: Patrick Lane' Witness: Selected Poems

2010 News & Annoucements

Our poets at rest: Al Purdy Our poets at rest: John Newlove Our poets at rest: Archibald Lampman Lesley Battler's "Idylls of Inuvik" Anita Lahey's interview with Lesley Battler Brief Reviews for Arc 65 How Poems Work: Excerpt from "On the Sonnet" Former Arc Poet-in-Residence: Five poems by Elise Partridge Elise Partridge’s poets: Nine poems by PIR participants Peter Richardson's poem, "A Memo from Communications Division 6, Re: Soldering Garage B, Hofnagelplatz, 1942" No small job: Feature Review on Robyn Sarah's Pause for Breath Arc Sampler: Three poems by Joshua Trotter

Fights the good fight: Bernadette Wagner's this hot place Poets’ Pathway and Lampman reading inspires Arc to launch nationwide hunt for poets’ gravesites Help Arc build an online archive of Canadian poets' graves Craig Poile winner of 2010 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry Archibald Lampman Award 2010 Nominees Meter master: Listening to Margaret Avison Every sensible and necessary image: classic P.K. Levin, In Love Chickens New Year's Day Arc Annual 2010 Arc Annual 2010: Lesson Plan

2009 News & Annoucements

The Night of the Apocalypse Yahweh Tinkles the Ivories Canadian Gothic Crow, of the family Corvidae Advisory Fidelities: Carmine Starnino's This Way Out How Poems Work: Excerpt from "On ending a poem" Nimbly probing: Matthew Tierney's The Hayflick Limit Lampman-Scott Award 2008 Winner Reactions to selections from Arc Annual 2010

Frederick Ward’s blistering blues – Excerpt Risking nostalgia – Excerpt Paul Tyler on Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 Arriving Early: on David O'Meara How Poems Work: A Brief History of the Canadian Ghazal Heron Penelope in Heavy Weather My Father On The Church Roof

2008 News & Annoucements

Roadside Vegetable Stand, Outskirts of Kitchener Plant Food Thank You For the Cigarette, John Newlove Donal Og 'When I see the world and do not see…' Unjustly ignored: Hine's Recollected Alessandro Porco on Steven Venright's Floors of Enduring Beauty Protected: Books for Review Arc Poetry Magazine Turns 30

Pugnax Gives Notice Line 30 (collage) Thirtysomething My Inner Cities: Thirty Landmark Books In My Personal Poetic Geography The Canvas and the Paint: S.E. Venart's Woodshedding Knock, knock: Is the real Atwood still there? Be transformed: Don Domanski's All Our Wonder Unavenged Withdrawal (W)hole

2007 News & Annoucements

Box Winter from Seamless Arc Poetry Magazine Honours Poets of the National Capital Region Our lost poets: Bring them back Lost and Found Poet #1: Louise Morey Bowman Lost and Found Poet #2: Avi Boxer Lost and Found Poet #3: Audrey Alexandra Brown Lost and Found Poet #4: Cheng Sait Chia Lost and Found Poet #5: Philip Child Lost and Found Poet #6: James Denoon Lost and Found Poet #7: George Faludy

Lost and Found Poets #8 and #9: Joseph Howe and Thomas D'Arcy McGee Lost and Found Poet #10: Douglas LePan Lost and Found Poet #11: Kenneth Leslie Lost and Found Poet #12: Paul Potts Lost and Found Poet #13: Dorothy Roberts Introducing Aislinn Hunter Back to the Modern: Three Ottawa Poets: Farina, Steinmetz and Cosier Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry's apostrophe Asleep Ken Babstock's Airstream Land Yacht Interview with Di Brandt

2006 News & Annoucements

Hecuba Five Discretions Of Water Out Walking Castor Gulo (poem of a beaver becoming a wolverine) Water Rituals On Richard Outram’s "Barbed Wire" Introducing Don McKay Introducing Robin Robertson

Interview with Peter Sanger Coy and austere: Margaret Avison's Books of Revelation Staggered state: George Murray's A Set of Deadly Negotiations Ahora Après Film Moving the Diorama Quasi-sonnets: Harold Rhenisch's Free Will Submission Guide for Artwork

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