April 2, 2018
Why We Chose It
“Chickens, 2019,” by Claire Boyles, appears in the Mar/Apr 2018 issue of the Kenyon Review. What will survive the human race? Do you believe there’s one creature, or one species […]
March 5, 2018
Why We Chose It
“Icarus Does the Dishes,” by Tommye Blount, appears in the Mar/Apr issue of the Kenyon Review It is strange to write from an editorial perspective, which presupposes power, about a […]
March 5, 2018
Join KR at AWP 2018!
Visit us March 8-10, at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference at the Tampa Convention Center & Marriott Tampa Waterside. On Saturday, March 10th, the book fair, with […]
February 6, 2018
Meet the Next KR Fellows
The Kenyon Review welcomes two exceptional writers as the next KR Fellows: Molly McCully Brown, in poetry, and Misha Rai, in prose. Brown and Rai will bring their literary gifts […]
February 5, 2018
Why We Chose It
“Nocturne,” by Oliverio Girondo, translated from Spanish by Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod, appears in the Jan/Feb 2018 KROnline. I’ve been entirely transfixed this month while reading and rereading the […]
February 5, 2018
Audrey Kim Wins 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
The Kenyon Review is pleased to announce that Audrey Kim, a sophomore at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, has won the Review’s 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young […]
January 8, 2018
Why We Chose It: Book Reviews
Three Views from KR’s Book Review Editors I love the gathering of voices in the KR Reviews section. Recently, I’ve been especially excited to feature reviews that highlight, on the […]
November 6, 2017
Why We Chose It
“How to Mourn,” by Tyrese L. Coleman, appears in the Nov/Dec 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review. In The Situation and the Story, Vivian Gornick writes, “Every work of literature […]
October 2, 2017
Why We Chose It
“We Not Die,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld, appears in the Sept/Oct 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review. Initially, what attracts me most to a story or essay is the language, […]
September 4, 2017
Why We Chose It
“Light Year,” by Maria Kuznetsova appears in the July/Aug 2017 issue of KROnline. Some stories catch my eye because I don’t recall having read anything like them: they wear their […]
July 31, 2017
Why We Chose It
“Door to Door” by Kevin Wilson, appears in the July/August 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review. Many of the sentences in “Door to Door,” a story by Kevin Wilson in […]
July 31, 2017
Young Writers: the South Bronx Connection
The KR Young Writers Workshop—immersive, exhausting, relentlessly exhilarating—can give high school students a powerful taste of new possibilities. That has been especially true for students from the South Bronx in […]