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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom Lacan

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 Bear Review newpages.com/blog/magazines…

Thanks to Poetry Daily for featuring my poem “Friday,” and DEAL, today. Link below. 💜 Copper Canyon Press poems.com/poem/friday/

For the sixth day of the Literary Journals project, I wanted to read the most recent issue, 10.2, of Bear Review 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

Very thoughtful thread on Bear Review's 10th anniv issue by Jesse DeLong. Honored that he thought through Nikki Ummel's interview of me!

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

Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”

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 Marcus Myers

Just got my first ever The Pushcart Prize Prize nomination! Thank you so much, Bear Review! Holy moley, what an honor.

Devin Kelly. ✨✨

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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