Arc's Poem of the Year Shortlist (2025)
Saemah Mushtaq, Catherine St. Denis, Rob Taylor, Cassandra Eliodor, Claudia Yang, Ellie Sawatzky, Georgio Russell, Andrea Scott, and Dominique Bernier-Cormier| Arc Poetry
Everyone has a bat story, but Aaron’s is the one that haunts me most. One night, his mother forgotthe sheets on the clothesline and they turned into moonlit caves, or marble eaves, or atticsfull of pearls—places darkness likes to perch— and three bats slept there, three lightbulbs of duskhanging from a white ceiling, until she […]| 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
