Celebrating Arc 100

With Frances Boyle, Sadiqa de Meijer, Katia Grubisic, rob mclennan and Brandon Wint

In Person Streaming Poetry

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Free

Tuesday

May , 2023

7:00pm

Eastern

Club Saw

67 Nicholas Street • Ottawa

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Brandon Wint Frances Boyle · Photo by Curtis Perry Katia Grubisic · Photo by P. Seib rob mclennan · Photo by Rose McLennan Sadiqa de Meijer

In this issue, we have emerging and established poets from across Canada and beyond, showcasing the vibrant world of poetry we are fortunate to live in.

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The Spring 2023 issue sees Arc hitting a huge milestone — 100 issues of everything poetry. To use the words of our Reviews Editor Emily Stewart, we “hope you consider the unrecorded, unquantifiable creative efforts that have gone into this issue and the ninety-nine before it. I hope you recognize the talent and labour that make this magazine happen. And I hope you realize, without any uncertainty, that one hundred issues of Arc Poetry would not have been possible without you, without the literary community that has grown alongside Arc.” There are so many ways to celebrate a milestone such as this one.

The Authors

Brandon Wint

Brandon Wint is a poet,spoken word artist, educator and multi-disciplinary collaborator based in western Canada. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performer, educator and collaborator. He has shared his work internationally, including in festivals and showcases in Latvia, Lithuania, Australia and Jamaica. His poetry has also been published in Ex-Puritan, Arc Poetry Magazine and Write Magazine, among others. He is currently the artistic director of Tree Reading Series. His debut collection of poetry is Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020).

Frances Boyle

Frances Boyle is the author of Seeking Shade, short stories, Tower, a Rapunzel-channelling novella, and three well-received poetry collections. Her volunteering includes Arc Poetry Magazine, The League of Canadian Poets, and Ottawa’s VERSeFest poetry festival. Raised in Saskatchewan, Frances has long lived in Ottawa. Skin Hunger is her first novel.

Katia Grubisic

Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has won the Gerald Lampert Award and been shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize and the Governor General’s Award for translation.

rob mclennan

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Ottawa Arts Council Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. His most recent titles include the poetry collections the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press, 2022) and World’s End, (ARP Books, 2023).

Sadiqa de Meijer

Sadiqa de Meijer writes poetry, essays, and short stories, and is currently Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston. Her poetry collections are the award-nominated Leaving Howe Island and The Outer Wards. Her book of essays, alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language, won a Governor General’s Literary Award. Her writing has been published internationally in literary journals and magazines. Her themes include landscape, migration, language, families, racism, art, and spirituality. She is currently working on new collections of poetry and essays.