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.

Bear Review at "SHOW ME STATE: A Missouri Lit Mags Virtual AWP Offsite Event"

Molly Bess Rector’s “god don’t like,” which appeared in Issue 4.2, announces in its opening stanza the reason slashes break the lines of...

Alison Palmer's "Angle of Divergence" is simultaneously apocalyptic and beautiful. In the poem, which can be found in Bear Review Issue...

What is a haunting in popular imagination if not a ghost inhabiting a house, refusing to leave or to let go of its human presence there?...

Matthew Tuckner’s poem “Lincoln Logs, invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of well-known architect Frank Lloyd Wright,” appearing in issue...

In the poem, which originally appears in Bear Review, Vol. 5, Issue 2, the listener looks back with Macri, a “mother heavy with all she...

This gorgeous and compact poem won Bear Review’s first annual Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize for a single outstanding piece. While...