2025 Poetry Contest
Fall 2025
Introduction
The Kenyon Review’s second annual poetry contest was judged by Diane Seuss, author of five collections of poems, including frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and […]
Nature’s Nature
Mar/Apr 2021
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Such were the figures most amply adorning the coverlet that lay the whole width of the couch, veiled and encompassed it. — Catullus 64
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2021
I’ve lived with death from the beginning, at the edge
I’ve lived with death from the beginning, at the edge of its villages. I sang it little songs, pried open its mildewed pods until the seed fluff detonated in my […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2021
From this bench I like to call my bench I sit
From this bench I like to call my bench I sit and watch my tree which is not my tree, no one’s tree, the quiet! Except for barn swallows, which […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2017
Six Unrhymed Sonnets
1 I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment but didn’thave the energy to get out of the car. Rental. Blue Ford Focus. I had to stop in a semipublic […]