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

Inaugural Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize winner announced

2019 Editors Prize Interview: Kabel Mishka Ligot

Aug 7, 2023

"Dear Outsiders" by Jenny Sadre-Orafai. A Review by Anthony Procopio Ross

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

Jun 17, 2023

Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize Finalists in Their Own Words - Three Brief Interviews with the Poets

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...

Jun 15, 2023

This is Not the Mouth: Interview with Claressinka Anderson, Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize Winner

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

Feb 21, 2023

Bear Review's [soft] launch of a new Kansas City poetry reading series

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

Dec 31, 2022

Get to know your bears: Mason Wray

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

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...