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

Read
Kenyon Review logo

David Barber

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2015

Franklin Arithmetic

By David Barber

Springfield, Mass., 1832 How many hands have a boy and a clock? Take Ε away from the word HOPE, and how many letters would be    left? And what would it […]

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2015

Carton Fantastique

By David Barber

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Confidences d’un Prestidigitateur (1858) The secret is to love your own illusion. The trick is to live in your imagination. My aim was to save the best […]