An online poetry journal. We publish outstanding work from established and emerging writers. We read submissions all year.

Kansas City, MO
Joined October 2014
#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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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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Devin Kelly. ✨✨
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Just got my first ever @PushcartPrize Prize nomination! Thank you so much, @BearReview! Holy moley, what an honor. – at Arlington, MA
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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 bearreview.com/
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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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Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”
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Thanks to @Poetry_Daily for featuring my poem “Friday,” and DEAL, today. Link below. 💜 @CopperCanyonPrs poems.com/poem/friday/
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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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Very thoughtful thread on @BearReview's 10th anniv issue by @jessemdelong. Honored that he thought through @NikkiUmmel's interview of me!
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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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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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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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom Lacan
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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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