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Arc Poetry Magazine

PO Box 81060 RPO World Exchange

Ottawa, ON  K1P 1B1 Canada

E-mail: managingeditor[at]arcpoetry[dot]ca

Web: www.arcpoetry.ca

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Online submissions: yes Reading period: 9/1 - 5/31 Response time: 4 months Payment: Yes (40 per page) Contests: Yes ISSN: 86001 Founded: 1978 Issues per year: 3 Distributors: Magazines Canada Copy price: $9.95 (CAD) currently unavailable on newsstands in US Average pages: 180 Sample price (postpaid): $12.50 (CAD); $19.50 (US) Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $30 (CAD); $42 (US) Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $45

Publisher’s description: Never afraid to pack a punch, Arc publishes the finest in contemporary poetry, and poetry reviews and criticism from Canada and around the globe. With a $5000 poem of the year contest, an Annual issue and Quarc-y partnerships with other publishers, Arc delivers surprising and quality content to readers.

Recent issues:

#67 Features John Steffler on lands new, left and found; Rostoyevsky on Ia Borson: new work, new book and the nouvelle vague; plus Naomi Guttman sets the table.

#66: From a candid interview with GG winner Jacob Scheier, to an editor/reader exchange on literary magazine contest subscriptions fee, to short histories of some of Canada's most well-known poetry prizes, and Aislinn Hunter's meditation on whether competition and poetry can co-exist in the first place... the Poet vs. Poet issue packs a punch.