The Growler

Poet Michelle Boisseau (1955 – 2017) We’re stoked about our annual single-poem contest. We’ve already received more than a couple of...

I read Kerry Kurdziel’s “I Accidentally Read Al Pacino as A.I. Pacino” and I fell in love with the void all over again. In college, my...

“March” is a portrait of a month that is poised between seasons, a month during which there is little left to do but wait. The...

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...

“Conclave” by Carolyn Oliver, Read by the Poet In this spare poem, Oliver shows how the ordinary moment—robins observed “on a high...

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