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

Read
Kenyon Review logo

Dorothy Barresi

Poetry

Summer 2001

Glass Dress

By Dorothy Barresi

Lily St. Cyr is dead. A de-luxe woman, stripper extraordinaire. Blond, like the cortex of a blazing sun finding the perfect grammar of its form in sublime asymmetry, gams and […]

Poetry

Summer 2001

Body Says

By Dorothy Barresi

Body says, meet the animal who made you.   Body says, I'll take mine with a little tornado sauce, please, and cunnilingus on the side.   Body says break and […]