Catherine St. Denis is the winner of The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award for Fiction. She placed in Grain’s Hybrid Forms Contest, was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize, and was twice a finalist for PEN Canada’s New Voices Award. Her work is featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2025.| Arc Poetry
First a snag. Then it chokes and lodges itself inside my throat. Nose running, glasses fogging, chopsticks mid-wielding.| Arc Poetry
1. Find your entropic grudge pavilionthe driver’s vestiges, petrol and knuckle paint.take directions from a dark purpling branch.this way to the swamp rave. the salamander roller derby.mechanical rodeo for shrikes and barn swallows.tremble arenas raising hairs for luck. invite the zebra mussels,emerald ash borers, girls with missing front teeth.nobodies from…| Arc Poetry
The editing process of Maureen Hynes' poem "Wing On" is discussed in detail in this insightful article by John Barton.| Arc Poetry
Ellie Sawatzky reads “On Crete” Dad and I are sweet to each other, knowingMom’s not here to be our mediator. We’ve nevertraveled just the two of us. Every daydark clouds rove the olive groves outsideour Airbnb. The cold, chemical-bright surfaceof the pool jumps at the invasion of raindrops,raises helpless fists.…| Arc Poetry
A Tour in the Garden of Earthly Delights by Damen O’Brien Pickup Fifty-Two by David Barrick Fulgura Frango (or How to Count to Infinity) by Dominique Bernier-Cormier Career Day by Joseph Kidney Telling the Bees by Larissa Andrusyshyn Nine Months, at 34 by Lianne O’Hara A Song, or Call by…| Arc Poetry
It is often said that an essential quality of poetic writing is its immunity to translation. As Dante wrote in his Convivio: “nothing harmonized according to the rules of poetry can be translated from its native tongue into another without destroying all its sweetness and harmony.” Dominique Bernier-Cormier would, I…| Arc Poetry
