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The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Fiction

Essay

Beginners

By Adrienne Rich

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Poetry

Suite for Emily

By Lynda Hull

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Walt Whitman in Hell

By T. R. Hummer

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Moths

By Robert Gibb

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Gnats

By Robert Gibb

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Mushrooms

By Robert Gibb

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Weather Central

By Ted Kooser

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Surveyors

By Ted Kooser

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Four Reasons for Destroying a Spider’s Web (A Meditation during the Gulf War)

By Judith Barrington

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Elegy for John Cage

By Lewis Hyde

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The Place the Musician Became a Bear on the Streets of a City Meant to Kill Him

By Joy Harjo

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The Dawn Appears with Butterflies

By Joy Harjo

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Mourning Song

By Joy Harjo

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Mother’s Milk

By Bina Agarwal

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Inventing the Filipino

By Fatima Lim-Wilson

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Mama

By Manlio Argueta, translated by Dan Belim and Stacey Ross

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In Transit

By Claudia Rankine

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Family Romance

By Tory Dent

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Many Rivers to Cross

By Tory Dent

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Women Who Sleep on Stones

By Lucia Perillo

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Retablo with Multiple Sclerosis and Saint

By Lucia Perillo

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On the Sunken Fish Processor, Tenyo Maru

By Lucia Perillo

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Who Knows

By Cleopatra Mathis

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The Fighter

By Cleopatra Mathis

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Echoes

By Timothy Liu

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Thoreau

By Timothy Liu

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From Rhapsody

By Wayne Koestenbaum

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Inside Out

By Alice Jones

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Offering

By Alice Jones

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Science

By Michael S. Weaver

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Easy Living

By Michael S. Weaver

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Don Giovanni in Hell

By Eric Pankey

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The Table

By Jay Rogoff

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The Mirror

By Jay Rogoff

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The Light

By Jay Rogoff

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Just You at the Last

By Susan Pliner

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Interview

In Love and War and Music: An Interview with Joy Harjo

By Marilyn Kallet and Joy Harjo

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Reviews