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12 May 2024
#BearReview’s 20th issue is live! We’re 10 years old and loving the honey y’all in the poetry hive keep making for us. So much of it here! bearreview.com/
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2 Aug 2025
Fyi, we will no longer be active on X. Find us on other social media platforms.
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24 May 2025
I just love Bear Review, so it's a lovely feeling to have 2 poems in the spring issue! Thanks to Marcus Myers & the editorial team for including me. Here's "We Will Find out Very Shortly" & enjoy the entire issue here, w/ work from so many stellar poets: bearreview.com/11-2
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26 Nov 2024
Just got my first ever @PushcartPrize Prize nomination! Thank you so much, @BearReview! Holy moley, what an honor.
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25 Oct 2024
We’re eager to show you this new Bear Review, Volume 11, Issue 1! Our 21st issue, it features poems by Sheleen McElhinney, Nicole Calihan, Meghan Sullivan, Leah Browning, Jane Zwart, Neil Carpathios, ChristiAnne Ross, Leila Bilick
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25 Oct 2024
@thebluepitcher @leahbrowninglit @CynthiaMHoffman @brookekrista @SandyLonghorn @_janezwart_ @cshrumly
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8 Aug 2024
Drive, 1982
There is no new thing under the sun
but the ever-reviving lives our losses foster,
like the white-bloused girl wading cotton north of Dunn
who looked up the moment that I lost her.
Christian Wiman
Image courtesy @MarcusMy3rs
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28 Jul 2024
Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”
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6 Jul 2024
Thanks to @Poetry_Daily for featuring my poem “Friday,” and DEAL, today. Link below. 💜 @CopperCanyonPrs
poems.com/poem/friday/
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7 Jul 2024
Here are a few from our most recent Bear Review Presents reading at 21c Museum Hotel in Kansas City: (left to right) Ariel Francisco, Jordan Stempleman and Nikki Ummel. #poems #poetryreading #bearreview
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7 Jul 2024
Very thoughtful thread on @BearReview's 10th anniv issue by @jessemdelong. Honored that he thought through @NikkiUmmel's interview of me!
6 Jul 2024
For the sixth day of the Literary Journals project, I wanted to read the most recent issue, 10.2, of @BearReview for reasons that are in the third part of this thread.
Bear Review is an online poetry journal, open year-round for submissions.
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6 Jul 2024
For the sixth day of the Literary Journals project, I wanted to read the most recent issue, 10.2, of @BearReview for reasons that are in the third part of this thread.
Bear Review is an online poetry journal, open year-round for submissions.
bearreview.com/10-2 1/4
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21 Jun 2024
The May 2024 Bear Review online journal features fierce new poetry as well as winner and finalist of the 2024 Michelle Boisseau Prize. Read more at NewPages!
#litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity
@BearReview newpages.com/blog/magazines/…
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5 Jun 2024
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
Lacan
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5 Jun 2024
We’re looking to read work that explores/uses various kinds of art: painting, sculpture, photography, performance, mixed media, music, film, theater, dance, comics, fashion, etc. Fine art as well as commercial. See our Submittable page for more info.
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