11/24/2025
The long awaited release of Arc Poetry's Fall 2025 issue, "The New Material Ecopoetics," is here! In her editor’s note, our outgoing Poetry Editor, Jennifer Baker, writes: “This issue of Arc asks what it would mean for us poets to go touch grass for a while. What would it look like to re-engage with the material, rather than the purely psychological or symbolic, realities of nonhuman beings, and contend with the autonomous lives that surround us with their own agencies? What does it look like when poets turn their attention to the raw materials of the world, and what would collaboration between the human and the actual, real, nonhuman look like?” Pick up this issue to see how it’s contributors leapt to experimentation to find answers to these questions.
Arc 105 also brings you: poems by Sarah Westcott, Garry MacKenzie, Jody Chan, Gary Barwin, and more; Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s translation of Kadiri Vaquer Fernández’s "Rites of Passage"; an essay against monocrop by Laurie D. Graham; sophie anne edwards, Renée M. Sgroi, and Kim Trainor in conversation; and reviews of seven recent books with direct and tangential connections to ecopoetics. Visual art inside and on the cover of this issue is provided by Valérie Chartrand.
This issue of Arc Poetry is available to order from our website now, and it will be hitting mailboxes and magazine stores in the coming days. For more information, visit our website: https://buff.ly/8e0EbaE
