The Growler

This poem, clearly steeped in Arthurian legend, transcends its source materials to express subtleties regarding violence, suffering,...

Set beside an unyielding sea, Sadre-Orafai’s newest collection “Dear Outsiders” waits for you with the patient gaze of someone staring...

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...

Claressinka Anderson's anonymous contest entry won our third annual single-poem prize, and it also secured the runner-up honorable...

No literary activity connects a city better than free, live readings. Founding co-editor B. Rivka Clifton and I started Bear Review in my...

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...