Janet McAdams’s books include The Island of Lost Luggage (University of Arizona Press, 2000), which won the American Book Award, Feral (Salt Modern Poets, UK, 2007), Red Weather (University of Arizona, 2012), and a chapbook of prose poems, Seven Boxes for the Country After (Kent State University Press, 2016).
Introduction
Winter 2010
A Conversation with Simon Ortiz
Janet McAdams: So many misunderstandings exist about Native people, history, and culture. Given that some readers of The Kenyon Review may be new to Native writing, what might surprise them […]
Nonfiction
Winter 2010
‘Ways in the World’: Formal Poetics in Linda Hogan’s Rounding the Human Corners
“Every day I ask myself, what is a human?” This is the central question of Linda Hogan’s new poetry collection, Rounding the Human Corners. To address this question, the poet […]
Poetry
Winter 2003
The Manson Girls
No one thought about the girls for years. And then one evening, decades later, Barbara Walters brought them to our living rooms. She seemed to say, Look! They are not […]
Poetry
Winter 2003
Sweet
1. The girl with the sweet mouth is singing. On stage, she forgets her hunger and sings beyond her body, beyondthe sour borders of the life each fan longs to […]
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Karenne Wood
When Karenne Wood’s manuscript for her second poetry collection—published in 2016 by Arizona as Weaving the Boundary and reviewed in these pages by Lynn Domina—was a finalist for our Kenyon […]