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The Growler
A specialty brew of musings, micro reviews and the occasional call to arms by the Bear Review crew and friends. Grab and go.
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- Aug 16
"Forest Sauvage" by M. Cynthia Cheung, Read by the Poet
This poem, clearly steeped in Arthurian legend, transcends its source materials to express subtleties regarding violence, suffering,...
- Aug 7
"Dear Outsiders" by Jenny Sadre-Orafai. A Review by Anthony Procopio Ross
Set beside an unyielding sea, Sadre-Orafai’s newest collection “Dear Outsiders” waits for you with the patient gaze of someone staring...
- Jun 17
Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize Finalists in Their Own Words - Three Brief Interviews with the Poets
As poetry editors at Bear Review, each year there’s really no greater joy than informing a poet that their anonymous contest entry hasn’t...
- Jun 15
This is Not the Mouth: Interview with Claressinka Anderson, Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize Winner
Claressinka Anderson's anonymous contest entry won our third annual single-poem prize, and it also secured the runner-up honorable...
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- Feb 21
Bear Review's [soft] launch of a new Kansas City poetry reading series
No literary activity connects a city better than free, live readings. Founding co-editor B. Rivka Clifton and I started Bear Review in my...
- Dec 31, 2022
Get to know your bears: Mason Wray
As you might have seen recently on our socials, Bear Review conducted a search for two new poetry editors to do the work of reading each...
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