http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/ Web Archive—Poetry, Reviews, Audio Podcasts, Press Releases, and other Arcana en-ca editor@arcpoetry.ca (Anita Lahey) web@arcpoetry.ca (Stacey Munro) Copyright 2010 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:27:36 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss poets poetry Canadian poets contemporary poetry Canadian poetry Canadian literature web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001143_arc_launches_issue_63_the_threelegged_issue.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001143_arc_launches_issue_63_the_threelegged_issue.php Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:27:36 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Patricia Young) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001141_the_night_of_the_apocalypse_yahweh_tinkles_the_ivories.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001141_the_night_of_the_apocalypse_yahweh_tinkles_the_ivories.php Patricia Young poem of the year poetry poetry contest Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:47:20 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Jim Johnstone) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001140_canadian_gothic.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001140_canadian_gothic.php Jime Johnstone poetry readers' choice Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:47:16 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Gillian Wallace) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001139_crow_of_the_family_corvidae.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001139_crow_of_the_family_corvidae.php Diana Brebner Prize Gillian Wallace poetry Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:34:38 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Steve McOrmond) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001138_advisory.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001138_advisory.php Steve McOrmond poetry Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:23:54 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Chris Jennings) I'm sceptical of the word "progress" when talking about poets and their careers. Progress implies too strong a value judgement, as though, by some objective measure, we can say that practice and the wisdom of age necessarily make for better poetry. There are too many contrary examples of canonical poets whose best work came in their early- or mid-careers to accept the proposition (Wordsworth and Lowell come immediately to mind). I like "career" much better as a verb--swift, uncontrolled action--and, even better, I like "career narrative" as the record of those twists and swerves. _This Way Out_ is definitely a swerve in Carmine Starnino's narrative, one that draws out a basic conflict that has been playing through Starnino's poetry for some time. To be more precise, it's a conflict in the poetics more than the poems: a conceptual tension between "writing about x" and "writing poetry." http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001136_fidelities.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001136_fidelities.php Carmine Starnino Chris Jennings poetry criticism poetry review Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:16:52 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Barbara Myers) To come to the end. To stop. Not necessarily the same thing, as far as poems are concerned. In fact, a frequent criticism of a poem is that its stopping place creates a "weak"ending or one that "doesn't work." I stumbled into this muddy field recently in asking poet-editors to read and comment on a book I was working on. Critiques of endings dotted the pages, rarely the same view, occasionally even contradicting each other. ... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001135_excerpt_from_essay_on_ending_a_poem.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001135_excerpt_from_essay_on_ending_a_poem.php Barbara Myers poetry criticism poetry essay Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:06:40 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Katia Grubisic) Matthew Tierney's _The Hayflick Limit_ opens with an excerpt from Joseph Brodsky's winter eclogue, which in its 13 words raises at least as many questions: if each body "falls prey" to the telescope, is distance the hunter? Is proximity? Discovery? Is being preyed upon a relief from the indifference of time, death an acknowledgment of existence? The brevity and the stab of those lines pries us open, leaving the reader far more vulnerable than the poet, though Brodsky evidently knew whereof he wrote. Even my grumpy expectations are not so high as to compare Tierney to his epigraphist, but what a lesson in how to offer poems to their readers. In this second collection, Tierney offers up our world, from the commonplace to the contemporary to the cosmic, with craft and cleverness, but he shies away from that Brodsky-esque eviscerating evocation. ... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001134_katia_grubisic_on_matthew_tierneys_the_hayflick_limit.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001134_katia_grubisic_on_matthew_tierneys_the_hayflick_limit.php Katia Grubisic Matthew Tierney poetry criticism poetry review Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:57:51 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) Poet in Residence October 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011 - Call for Proposals http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001133_poet_in_residence_october_1_2010_to_june_30_2011_call_for_proposals.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001133_poet_in_residence_october_1_2010_to_june_30_2011_call_for_proposals.php poet in residence poetry jobs Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:13:02 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001127_november_2009_three_calls_for_entry_and_one_new_way_to_get_arc.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001127_november_2009_three_calls_for_entry_and_one_new_way_to_get_arc.php Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:32:06 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/news/001126_calls_for_entry_coming_up_early_in_2010.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/news/001126_calls_for_entry_coming_up_early_in_2010.php Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:19:57 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) Arc Digital Edtion now available. http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/news/001125_arc_digital_edition_now_available.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/news/001125_arc_digital_edition_now_available.php Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:01:50 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001120_lampmanscott_award_2008_winner.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001120_lampmanscott_award_2008_winner.php Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:26:51 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001117_reactions_to_selections_from_arc_annual_2010.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001117_reactions_to_selections_from_arc_annual_2010.php Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:02:13 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by George Elliott Clarke) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001116_frederick_wardas_blistering_blues_excerpt.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001116_frederick_wardas_blistering_blues_excerpt.php Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:47:02 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Ross Leckie) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001115_risking_nostalgia_excerpt.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001115_risking_nostalgia_excerpt.php Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:37:47 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Lynda Grace Philippsen) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001114_lost_clauses.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001114_lost_clauses.php Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:34:47 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Chris Jennings) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001112_introduction_why_how_poems_work.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001112_introduction_why_how_poems_work.php Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:51:34 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Anita Lahey) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001111_editors_note_how_poems_work_on_whom.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001111_editors_note_how_poems_work_on_whom.php Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:25:16 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) The Celebrated National Journal of Canadian Poetry Publishes a New Issue that Explores How Poems Work and asks 44 Canadians from all Walks of Life to Weigh in on Canadian Poetry http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001109_arc_poetry_magazine_introduces_the_new_arc_poetry_annual_2010.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001109_arc_poetry_magazine_introduces_the_new_arc_poetry_annual_2010.php Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:32:42 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Paul Tyler) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001097_paul_tyler_on_best_canadian_poetry_in_english_2008.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001097_paul_tyler_on_best_canadian_poetry_in_english_2008.php Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:40:03 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Carmine Starnino) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001096_on_david_0meara_arriving_early.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001096_on_david_0meara_arriving_early.php Carmine Starnino David O’Meara poetry poetry reviews Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:32:12 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Rob Winger) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/essays/001095_a_brief_history_of_the_canadian_ghazal.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/essays/001095_a_brief_history_of_the_canadian_ghazal.php Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:07:14 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Stuart Ross) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001094_heron.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001094_heron.php Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:01:03 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Amanda Jernigan) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001093_penelope_in_heavy_weather.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001093_penelope_in_heavy_weather.php Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:59:32 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Harry Thurston) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001092_my_father_on_the_church_roof.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001092_my_father_on_the_church_roof.php contemporary poetry poetry Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:55:00 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) An examination of the work of John Thompson; the Ghazal form in English; new poetry by Stuart Ross, Susan Glickman, Michael Lista, Try Jollimore and more! http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001087_arc_poetry_magazine_62_summer_2009_ghazal_mania.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001087_arc_poetry_magazine_62_summer_2009_ghazal_mania.php Sun, 24 May 2009 13:09:39 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001084_say_yes_to_the_writers_researchers_and_readers_of_canada.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001084_say_yes_to_the_writers_researchers_and_readers_of_canada.php Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:10:44 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Anita Lahey) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001081_coalition_to_keep_canadian_heritage_support_for_arts_and_literary_magazines.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001081_coalition_to_keep_canadian_heritage_support_for_arts_and_literary_magazines.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001081_coalition_to_keep_canadian_heritage_support_for_arts_and_literary_magazines.php#comments literary magazines Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:10:58 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001075_arc_61_launch_february_22_2009.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001075_arc_61_launch_february_22_2009.php Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:38:57 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) Anon makes a comeback. Plus: Free Poem of the Year Upgrade. And: Arc reviewers not so cranky after all. Read press release ... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001068_arc_poetry_magazine_61_the_headless_issue.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001068_arc_poetry_magazine_61_the_headless_issue.php Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:13:47 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Anita Lahey) *Editor's Note* Last winter I sat on a literary grant jury. I spent the months of January and February reading 157 50-page excerpts from manuscripts-in-progress in four genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult fiction. The manuscripts were sent to me without their authors' names. In principal, I was impressed by this system, which aims to judge work purely on merit, thereby avoiding bias related to track records, reputations, histories with jurors, and so on. Nor was I new to blind reading: Being part of the Arc crew means spending part of each summer reading nameless entries to our Poem of the Year contest (the results of which appear in this issue). But eight weeks immersed in work written by unknown hands proved unsettling. The growing sensation, each time I grabbed a new manuscript from the seemingly bottomless box on the floor of my office, was of pawing through darkness. While at first I found it exciting, I increasingly longed for something to see or to hold. The contours in the letters of a name. Real people to whom to attach these homeless words. Here at [_Arc_], we pride ourselves on what we hope is our openness to work written by anyone, previously heard of or not, published or not, lauded or not. We strive to disregard a poet's "name" while assessing his or her poems. In this light, my reaction to the grant applications gave me pause, for I realized how much, by nature or instinct or learning--or all of the above--I rely on what I know of an author to ground my reading. I realized, too, that one of the things I love about reading is the relationship one builds--privately, amid lamps and shadows and bookshelves--with one's favourite authors. The habit, for me, reaches far back into childhood, when I methodically made my way through the entire oeuvre of Dr. Seuss available at the Appleby Branch of the Burlington Public Library before venturing on to other authors, such as L.M. Montgomery. In Montgomery's case, my unabashed love of _Anne of Green Gables_ allowed me to forgive failings in its sequels. For the benefits I accrue by returning to certain authors like old friends, in effect going home, this is a trade-off I'm willing to make. If the alchemy that takes place during an act of reading is pinned in that space between the mind and the page--where reader, writer and imagination meet--is this a problem? Is there any such thing as pure objective judgment of a literary work anyway? Now there's a question we thought worth passing on to our readers--in, quite literally, a hands-on fashion. Thus, there is something missing in this issue of Arc. I should say, something will appear to be missing when you flip to the poetry. You will of course find lines and stanzas. You'll find verb, metaphor, enjambment and variations on metre. What you won't find is any evidence of the poets responsible for these compositions, save the words they have pieced together. Atop each poem, in the space usually reserved for the author's name, we offer only white space. ... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001067_two_parts_joy_one_part_torture.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001067_two_parts_joy_one_part_torture.php anonymous poetry poetry magazines Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:20:44 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001066_roadside_vegetable_stand_outskirts_of_kitchener.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001066_roadside_vegetable_stand_outskirts_of_kitchener.php contemporary poetry poetry Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:51:20 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001065_plant_food.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001065_plant_food.php contemporary poetry poetry Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:39:25 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001064_thank_you_for_the_cigarette_john_newlove.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001064_thank_you_for_the_cigarette_john_newlove.php contemporary poetry poetry Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:22:40 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001063_donal_og.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001063_donal_og.php Anon Donal Og translated by Lady Gregory Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:47:54 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Aislinn Hunter) I first heard the poem "Donal Og" in a cottage by the sea. I was visiting an Irish poet at a time when I would probably have boasted that I knew something of Irish poetry. He asked me if I knew "Donal Og." I said no. He asked if I had Heaney's _Rattle Bag_ anthology and, again, the answer was no. Out came the book. It was late, quiet out and dark; the kind of blackness that settles along the northwest edge of the country, away from other houses, busy roads. There was a fire, coal I think, we'd been drinking and there was an ease in the room. The talk was mostly poetry, a bit of history. I was young in writing terms, and eager to learn. My host read the poem. He read it the way it is meant to be read--as a kind of spell. The first line--"It is late last night the dog was speaking of you"--is immediately unsettling, the "you" making the listener complicit. The alliterative sounds, loping rhythm and the repetition of "you" as the poem progresses pull you, the listener, in, as if you were at the end of a rope and being reeled steadily closer. On first reading the poem seems like a plain-spoken questioning of what went wrong between two lovers. But there is magic in it: dogs "speak," cries are numbered, ships are made of gold and silver, impossible gifts are conjured. There is enchantment (in multiple senses of the word). But this poem is also an inventory of loss. Hearing it for the first time was like looking into a wound. But not a wound that could be ascribed to any one person, not like Raymond Carver's work where we can say, "Oh well, Carver, he knew loss, there was the drink, the first marriage..." Rather, this wound sounded out of the past, and went on and on, unresolved and unclaimed. ... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001062_when_i_see_the_world_and_do_not_see.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001062_when_i_see_the_world_and_do_not_see.php Aislinn Hunter Anon Donal Og poetry essay Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:23:34 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by James Pollock) "Criticism," writes Helen Vendler, is "the revenge of the student who once, perforce, sat silent while things that seemed untrue were said unrebuked, and poets who loomed large in the mind were ignored in the classroom." So many untrue things have been said for so many years about Canadian poetry, and not just in classrooms, that it is hard to know where to begin to take one's revenge, if that is the right word. But fortunately the recent publication of Daryl Hine's _Recollected Poems: 1951-2004_ gives us a chance to reassess our most unjustly ignored poet, and to fill in--or begin to fill in--one of the most forlorn and gaping holes in our literary history. ... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001061_hine_recollected.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001061_hine_recollected.php Daryl Hine James Pollock poetry poetry reviews Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:41:44 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Alessandro Porco) "I believe in domains of existence vivid and compelling beyond even this miraculous reality we call the world." So says Steven Venright in his statement of poetics published in the anthology _Surreal Estate_. It's through language--"a shamanic gloop out of which visions emerge and new meanings are formed"--that Venright reveals, and revels in, the "vivid and compelling beyond." "The Turbulated Curtain," the opening poem from Venright's latest book, _Floors of Enduring Beauty_, provides the best gloss on Venright's style: "A languid lingual torrent coming out of my own head like textoplasm, full of typogres and lexichauns." Surreal wordplay, philosophic wit, and Romantic world-making imperatives abound. Venright's poetry is perfectly intransitive.... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001060_alessandro_porco_on_steven_venrights_floors_of_enduring_beauty.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001060_alessandro_porco_on_steven_venrights_floors_of_enduring_beauty.php Alessandro Porco Arc raves Steven Venright poetry reviews Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:32:13 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Rob Winger) After a reading in Ottawa a year or two back, George Bowering said something worth remembering: your poetic influences can't be charted with categories because we all make our _own_ traditions, big messy ancestries that leap from period to period, form to form, nation to nation. Charting these jumps autobiographically would mean a naming of Keats' Odes, Ginsberg's Howl, Wordsworth's Prelude, Whitman's Leaves, but it would also be like examining a fossil, even if those books might be the ones that first showed me what poems ought to be. Instead, I've tried to think about the books that have most often been active for me during the last few years of my writing life. Some represent a discovery of new writers; some are new books by familiar writers; and, some are die-hard standards in my poetic life, still finding their ways into empty evenings years after I first found them. Whatever the case may be, every one of the following has broadened my ideas of what a poem can do, even if one is really a collection of tiny stories, another is a translated travel anthology, and the best metaphor in another is its sketch of a double-tailed dog... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/arcdozens/001059_not_the_fossils.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/arcdozens/001059_not_the_fossils.php Arc Dozens Rob Winger favourite poetry books Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:55:33 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) The votes are now in and the decisions are final. The winners of the Readers' Choice Award and of the Poem of the Year Contest have been notified, and will be published in Arc 61 (Winter 2009), which will be on newsstands by early December 2008. http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001048_readers_choice_and_poem_of_the_year_update.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001048_readers_choice_and_poem_of_the_year_update.php Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:27:45 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) October is an exciting month at Arc, with four very different literary events planned that promise to be stimulating, thought-provoking and entertaining: the Lampman-Scott Award Reading, the Ottawa Book Awards where the winner of the Lampman-Scott Award for 2008 will be announced, Arc's 30th Anniversary Celebration, and the Montreal Launch of Arc 60--the 30th anniversary issue! (phew).... http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001047_four_arc_events_you_should_know_about.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001047_four_arc_events_you_should_know_about.php poetry events Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:51:50 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) * only one vote will be accepted from each email address. * DEADLINE FOR VOTES: September 30, 2008. * Readers’ Choice Award winner will be announced with all other Poem of the Year Awards at the beginning of October 2008. See Readers' Choice Award page .]]> http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001042_your_turn_to_pick_a_winner.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001042_your_turn_to_pick_a_winner.php Canadian poetry international poetry people's poetry poetry contests readers' choice Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:59:35 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) Contestants-- * You live in Ottawa or nearby within the National Capital Region. * You're busting poetry at the seams, maybe running out of hard drive or drawer room. But no book yet. * Go for exposure. Get that lead out. Put the Capital Hill copywriters to shame. Enter the 7th Annual Diana Brebner Prize contest by October 1st. * Recognition, plus a *$500 bonus, to claim. Backgrounder-- Born in 1978, Arc Poetry Magazine at 30 is still hip, mingling work of emerging poets and seasoned poets among its pages in a bid for the best contemporary poetry. Diana Brebner is a fondly remembered mentor of many Ottawa-area poets. http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001040_vie_for_the_brebner_prize_by_october_1st.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001040_vie_for_the_brebner_prize_by_october_1st.php Ottawa poetry emerging poets poetry contest poetry prize Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:28:16 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001037_arc_poetry_magazine_turns_30.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/001037_arc_poetry_magazine_turns_30.php Arc Poetry Magazine anniversary issue poetry launch Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:37:30 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Carmine Starnino) click to link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001036_pugnax_gives_notice.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001036_pugnax_gives_notice.php Carmine Starnino poetry Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:40:17 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Mary Dalton) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001035_line_30_collage.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001035_line_30_collage.php Mary Dalton poetry poetry collage Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:28:32 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Rocco de Giacomo) click link to read poem http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001034_thirtysomething.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/poetry/001034_thirtysomething.php Rocco de Giacomo poetry Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:13:52 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Sonnet L'Abbé) .. ... The other morning my friend Reza and I were on a bus in Vancouver, and as we turned from East King Edward onto Kingsway, he told me that when he first came to the city he had taken a room in one of the houses nearby. "This," he said, indicating the small, boxish bungalows and stamp-sized lawns we were passing, "is my first impression of Canada." He has been in B.C. for four years, I for less than six months. Strange, that a relative newcomer from Iran should be showing the Canadian around East Van. Reza has also been on several Transcanada trips, as far as the Maritimes, all the way up to Labrador; I have never been east of Quebec city. Which of us can say they know Canada? --- click link for more of the excerpt see issue for Sonnet L'Abbe's full essay and 30 books she couldn't live without http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001033_my_inner_cities_thirty_landmark_books_in_my_personal_poetic_geography.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001033_my_inner_cities_thirty_landmark_books_in_my_personal_poetic_geography.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001033_my_inner_cities_thirty_landmark_books_in_my_personal_poetic_geography.php#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:32:52 -0500 web@arcpoetry.ca (Arc) (by Katia Grubisic) http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001032_katia_grubisic_on_se_venarts_woodshedding.php http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/reviews/001032_katia_grubisic_on_se_venarts_woodshedding.php Katia Grubisic S.E. Venart poetry reviews Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:15:12 -0500