September 6, 2013
Why We Chose it: Because Lucille Clifton’s Collected Work is a Big Book
Some books are big in global history, some in national history, and some in personal history. Lucille Clifton’s work is big in all of those categories. That’s why I chose […]
August 5, 2013
Why We Chose It
“Covers,” Peter Trachtenberg writes in his wonderful, multi-layered essay “Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” “connect us with our past selves, the selves we outgrew and discarded, the selves we abandoned in shame, […]
August 5, 2013
How Does Two Years to Write, Read, and Teach Sound? Apply For a KR Fellowship!
On September 1, The Kenyon Review will begin accepting applications for its KR Fellowships. These two-year post-graduate positions are intended for creative writers who have already completed the MFA or […]
August 5, 2013
Kenyon Review Young Writers: Reveling in Messiness
By Celeste Lipkes, Teaching Fellow, Kenyon Review Young Writers, Summer 2013 It’s 9AM on a Monday morning, and a dozen teenagers are wrapping up a debate that bounced effortlessly from […]
July 1, 2013
Introducing KR’s New Managing Editor
It is great good news for The Kenyon Review that Abigail Wadsworth Serfass—Abby—has recently ascended to the role of Managing Editor. (Or assumed its substantial burdens—a matter of perspective.) This […]
July 1, 2013
What a Writing Whirlwind
“My church at home is next to the Burger King.” Each participant in the inaugural Literary Hybrid/Book Arts class was asked to write twenty-five first lines in advance of the […]
July 1, 2013
Why We Chose It
How wise of Emily Anderson to begin her lovely story “Calliope” with an epigraph from one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic books. She must take care of herself, Wilder tells […]
May 1, 2013
Why We Chose It
By David Lynn, Editor I had never read work by Aisha Gawad before, but when I came across this passage early in her story “Waking Luna,” [now in KR, Spring […]
May 1, 2013
Kayla Glazer Receives S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing
Kayla Glazer, a graduating senior at Thetford Academy in Thetford, Vermont, has been named the recipient of the S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing, a merit scholarship named in […]
April 8, 2013
Why We Chose It
“After the Uprising” came to us as the last poem from McCrae’s new book, Blood, just out from Noemi Press. It’s a partner poem to the first in the book, […]
April 8, 2013
The Best E-Reader is the One You Already Have
We’re very pleased to introduce a new mobile format for www.kenyonreview.org! Under development in January, February, and March 2013, we’ve now implemented a scalable CSS that formats to fit the […]
March 4, 2013
Why We Chose It
“Personal Effects,” by Solmaz Sharif, appears in the Spring 2013 issue of the Kenyon Review. Each time the question invariably makes sense. I’m at a workshop or taking part in […]