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- Sep 25
Announcing the 2022 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize!
In honor of the life and work of Kansas City poet and professor Dr. Michelle Boisseau, Bear Review will continue its annual single-poem...
- Sep 25
Join Our Team!
Poetry Editor Bear Review is looking for a dedicated and talented poetry editor to join our team. Location: Remote Deadline to submit:...
- Jul 1
"Emily as a Plum Flower" by Darren C. Demaree, Read by the Poet
In this poem, appearing in Bear Review Issue 8, Vol. 2, we hear the resolve to accept an uncomfortable reality. While the speaker’s exact...
- Jun 17
"Most Animals" by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen, Read by the Poet
Most striking at first, at least for this listener, about Kirsten Shu-ying Chen’s “Most Animals” recording was the calm, bright,...
- May 20
Away from the Past into Other Pasts
Lea Graham, the 2021-Michelle-Boisseau-Prize-winning poet, on how a place’s strangeness is made familiar and kept strange by poems...
- Apr 1
Three Collaborative Prose Poems, with Piano Accompaniment, Read by the Poets
Encountering these three prose poems by Christopher Citro and Dustin Nightingale, originally appearing in Bear Review, Vol 6, Issue 1,...