Bear Review online journal issue 12.2 welcome a wide variety of poetry, reading submissions year-round to publish in two issues: spring and fall. “We do admire experimentation and blurred genres,” note the editors, who also hope to give readers “a view of the many and varied poetries written presently in English.”
This issue features the 2025 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize Winner Isaac Salazar, Runner Up Alexa Doran, and works by each finalist: KT Herr, Ellen Kombiyil, Arlene DeMaris, and Isaac Salazar.
Readers can also enjoy new poems by July Westhale, Jess Yuan, Nico Amador, Sarah Lynn Hurd, Flora Field, Jennifer Moore, Maria Picone, Nichole Turnbloom, Silvia Bonilla, Morgan L. Jenkins, John Fadely, Sarah Brockhaus, Keith Woodruff, Cecelia Hagen, Austin Segrest, Angie Macri, Joannie Stangeland, Emily Adams-Aucoin, Miriam Milena, Catherine Broadwall, Ashley Vogel, Ha Kiet Chau, and Clayton Adam Clark.
