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"

In Blood of the Air, Codjoe exploits the intersection of content and form to deconstruct racist and sexist narratives...

How do you describe the sound reverberating off gymnasium walls as a circle of people in folding chairs voice their ugliest secrets?

If summer found you like it found me, dear reader, it saw you spending those noon-tall days with five or six books at your side. The...

I keep using the word "rangy" to describe the poems in Alicia Mountain's High Ground Coward. By rangy, I mean both range-like, an...