January 17, 2014
KR’s New Monthly Podcast
KR has a new monthly podcast, and I’m really excited–I’ve been hoping to get something like this going for a long while. (Find it here.) The first one, which we posted […]
January 14, 2014
Ready, Set, Stop!
Open submissions to The Kenyon Review will close on January 15. Fair warning! What a great reading period it’s been already from September 15th. Nearly 9,000 submissions and counting, up from […]
January 9, 2014
Let Me Persuade You . . . .
Credo. A word rarely bandied these days, save perhaps in a strictly religious context. Credo. A statement of personal faith. Isn’t that it? Well, yes, taken literally. And I suppose […]
October 17, 2013
Salter in the House
I’ve never been able to locate a working time machine—which leaves me, tonight, in a worse-than-usual-fix. Because I need to travel back to earlier this evening and exhort anyone within […]
October 6, 2013
Thoughts on “Sky Coming Forward”
(You can find “Sky Coming Forward” in Phillips’ collection Double Shadow, or in the Fall 2010 issue of The Kenyon Review.) I won’t call this poem deceptive — maybe just coy. The title […]
September 30, 2013
Thoughts on “Fascination”
For the month of October, the KR blog will feature posts on the poetry of Carl Phillips, this year’s recipient of The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Specifically, we’re reading […]
September 6, 2013
The Passing of Giants
It’s an old saw that friends and family tend to pass in clusters. But recent days have seen the loss of two dear friends of The Kenyon Review and poets of […]
June 6, 2012
The Dorothy project: An interview with Danielle Dutton
Just out today on the Kenyon Review Online is Elaine Bleakney’s review of two novels by Renee Gladman, Event Factory and The Ravickians. Both novels were published by Dorothy, a […]
May 21, 2012
Taking back the sponge cake & other adventures
This post should come with a dateline: Seattle. This weekend I was lucky enough to go to my first reading at the legendary Elliott Bay Books. Four great poets—Zach Savich […]
January 28, 2012
Short Takes: The Eleven (Self-Addressed) Commandments
“When you can’t create you can work.” “Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.” Some words of wisdom in the writing commandments of Henry Miller. Nabokov: “I’ve […]
January 17, 2012
Short Takes: Poetic Violence
Why is it that, 600 years later, Joan of Arc still fascinates us? And by “us” I mean, of course, not just you and me, reader, but “Shakespeare, Voltaire, Twain, […]
January 5, 2012
Mix Tape: The New Year (“So this is the new year, and I don’t feel any different”)
Helen Vendler goes after The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Rita Dove. “Multicultural inclusiveness prevails: some 175 poets are represented. No century in the evolution of poetry […]