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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- 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,...
- Mar 12
"Tourism" by Alyse Bensel, Read by the Poet
I first read Alyse Bensel’s “Tourism”, which appears in Bear Review, Vol. 3, Issue 2, in an Airbnb in Omaha. My wife—girlfriend of two...
- Jan 29
"Weather Diorama" by Karen Craigo, Read by the Poet
As a child, I savored every scholastic opportunity to build a diorama. Shoeboxes, construction paper, rubber cement, and popsicle sticks...
- Jan 17
The Radical Romanticism of Marc Chagall’s Art
What stays with me in Chagall’s work was his unwavering need to paint what others may write off as sentimental.
- Jan 16
Cats: Companions in a lonely calling.
No one will understand your need to write, but a cat will sit with you and patiently love you with their presence.