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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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Get to know your bears: Nikki Ummel
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...
Dec 31, 2022


Announcing the 2022 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize!
In honor of the life and work of Kansas City poet and professor Dr. Michelle Boisseau, Bear Review will continue its annual single-poem...
Sep 25, 2022


Join Our Team!
Poetry Editor Bear Review is looking for a dedicated and talented poetry editor to join our team. Location: Remote Deadline to submit:...
Sep 25, 2022


"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...
Jul 1, 2022


"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,...
Jun 17, 2022


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...
May 20, 2022
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