Latest Poems

The Border Terrain: Rob Taylor interviews Sadiqa de Meijer

Thursday Apr 21, 2022 — Ancestor vs. Ancestor – Sadiqa de Meijer The darkness then was darker than we know; it never left the corners of a room, rose velvetly from cellars, where it blinded the potatoes— like curd it formed a film on wooden spoons. Grains of darkness clustered between brothers. Dark moisture kept the cabbage leaves apart. All […] Read More

Mary Trafford reads “A Drawing Lesson”

Friday Apr 15, 2022 — . A Drawing Lesson I remember the rules from childhood: blue sky above, brown earth below, colour in between, and, somewhere high up, a beaming yellow sun. I follow the rules, discarding all I have learned between the brown earth of childhood and the thin blue sky of now, try to locate the random specifics […] Read More

Could you be Arc’s fourteenth virtual Poet-In-Residence?

Saturday Apr 9, 2022 — Arc Poetry Magazine is now accepting applications from candidates wishing to be Arc’s next Poet-in-Residence! The 2022/2023 program year goes from November 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. Please Note: this project is pending funding and subject to change. Arc Poetry Magazine reserves the right to cancel or modify this program without further notice. […] Read More

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2022 Poems

The Border Terrain: Rob Taylor interviews Sadiqa de Meijer Mary Trafford reads “A Drawing Lesson” Could you be Arc’s fourteenth virtual Poet-In-Residence? Karen Massey reads “Mary Oliver in the Hereafter”

Betty Warrington-Kearsley reads “Onsen in Izu” Conyer Clayton reads “Seeds” Frances Boyle reads “Momentum”

2021 Poems

tribute for Phyllis Webb

Announcing Arc’s 2021/2022 Poet-in-Residence: Annick MacAskill!

2020 Poems

Announcing Arc’s 2020 – 2021 Poet-in-Residence: Jim Johnstone! In Support of Tawahum Bige “Water and Other Volatiles” by Jennifer Zilm “Eyewitness” by Ajibola Tolase “The Long Haul” by Sue Sinclair

“Nanima” by Alysha Mohamed “it’s always bedrock” by Tawahum Bige, from Arc 92 Announcing Arc’s Specialized Poet-in-Residence Could you be Arc’s twelfth virtual Poet-In-Residence?

2019 Poems

Announcing Arc’s 2019 – 2020 Poet-in-Residence: Stevie Howell!

2018 Poems

how poems hAPPen: Arc Poetry Podcast, Episode 2 Arc is Proud to Introduce our 2018 – 2019 Poet-in-Residence: Adèle Barclay!

how poems hAPPen: Arc Poetry Podcast Could you be Arc’s next Poet-In-Residence?

2017 Poems

Listening At The Table: Arc Poetry-Editor Handover Conversation Between Rhonda Douglas (Outgoing) and Doyali Islam (Incoming) Holiday by Ian Burgham

Eventuality by Robin Richardson

2016 Poems

Arc Poetry Magazine announces the Lampman Award finalists The Poet’s Paradox: in Conversation with Steven Heighton Felicitations, David O'Meara, 2016's winner of the Ottawa Arts Council Mid-Career Artist Award!

Arc is saddened to learn of the passing of D.G. Jones Pay Raise for Writers!

2015 Poems

Could you be Arc’s next Poet-In-Residence? Excerpt from An Interview with Arc’s Poet-in-Residence, Robyn Sarah Arc Poetry Magazine announces Poet-in-Residence 2015-16 Dead Editors’ Society (an Arc Poetry Soirée) Arc's Lampman and Brebner Evening A memorial for Elise Partridge, 1958-2015 What's Canadian at Cordite? Karen Solie to Sharon Thesen

What's Canadian at Cordite? Tanya Evanson to Ray Hsu For Elise Partridge 1958-2015 What's Canadian at Cordite? Stephanie Bolster to Lydia Kwa What's Canadian at Cordite? Colin Fulton to Rachel Zolf What's Canadian at Cordite? Helen Guri to Sue Sinclair What's Canadian at Cordite? Sandy Pool to Shane Rhodes What's Canadian at Cordite? Nora Gould to Nick Thran

2014 Poems

What's Canadian at Cordite? Lisa Robertson to Aisha Sasha John Investigative Poetry: Are Poets the New Reporters? Poem of the Year Contest Pain and Reassertion: Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love Arc 74: It's Awards Season!

National Poetry Month: Roo Borson "In April" Gaps and Gravity: Daniela Elza’s milk tooth bane bone Arc 73: Canada's Up-and-At-You Poetry Magazine An Ode to Skimpy Clothes from Darryl Whetter and Arc

2013 Poems

Poem of the Year Contest Miss the launch? You can hear the poems! Arc Poetry Magazine launches ‘The North’ 2012's best poem published in Arc: Vancouver Aquarium Secret by Barbara Nickel

Someone Else’s North by Laisha Rosnau Arc Poetry Magazine honours Ottawa poets. The Mid-2013 Checkpoint: Arc’s Reviews, Poetry, Essays, and Visual Art Numbers

2012 Poems

Poem of the Year Contest “Your own searching will lead you to what you need.” Introducing Arc’s 2012–13 Poet-in-Residence: Tim Bowling Matthew Zapruder: Confessions of a Secret Formalist George Murray: Beautiful Chaos

David McGimpsey: How to earn instant U.S. citizenship, and other stories Poet in Residence 2012 – 2013 Poet vs Poet online: Geddes on Lowther

2011 Poems

Happy New Year from Arc Poet vs Poet online: Earle Birney You can never feel small: 2011 Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer Poet Vs Poet online: Winston Collins The best of our primitive hearts Surrounded by the Andaman Sea

Congratulations to the 2011 finalists for the Archibald Lampman Award Another inscrutable house: Traces of Elizabeth Bishop, 1911 – 1979 Absence and missing: Robert Kroetsch, 1927 – 2011 Poetry, murder, online TV and one Arc contributor Arc Poetry editor in the Ottawa citizen

2010 Poems

Our poets at rest: Gwendolyn MacEwen Our poets at rest: Marianne Bluger

Interview: The Poet as Witness

2008 Poems

Not the fossils

2007 Poems

Introducing Ian Hamilton Finlay