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"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,...
- 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...