Rob Taylor reads “Harrison River Valley, November” First the salmon are a smell, then a sound, then dorsal fins: a symphony of miniature Jaws fast cuts. Eagles gorge upon the living, seagulls tug apart the nearly dead. Our children stand transfixed. We offer them our meagre facts. A belly-up chinook…| Arc Poetry
Andrea Scott reads “Saucer Magnolia” I marked my lost pregnancy and my last one, all in one shot.Out front I planted a sapling—magenta saucer magnolia—and, beside the root ball, the living baby’s placenta. The midwife said her husband wanted it out of their freezer, and sooner than later.My preteens played…| 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
Catherine St. Denis reads “The Essential Involvement of the Harpist” “Only pain is intellectual, only evil is interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula Le GuinAs a child, I thought acid rain would…| Arc Poetry
Saemah Mushtaq, Catherine St. Denis, Rob Taylor, Cassandra Eliodor, Claudia Yang, Ellie Sawatzky, Georgio Russell, Andrea Scott, and Dominique Bernier-Cormier| Arc Poetry
Dear Mahsa by Ava Fathi Of Eccentric Orbits by Jennifer Houle In Which Alberta Plays the Old West (Not So Much in the Way That Angela Hewitt Plays Bach as in the Way That a Dog Plays Dead) by Joseph Kidney The Bottle Depot by Tonya Lailey Bad Mango by…| Arc Poetry