August 10, 2015
KR Podcast with Rebecca McClanahan
Is memoir the most difficult genre to write well? In our latest podcast episode, Rebecca McClanahan tells contributing editor Andy Grace why she thinks so. She also speaks of her […]
August 3, 2015
Elizabeth Spires
Elizabeth Spires’s books include The Wave Maker, Now the Green Blade Rises, and Worldling. She lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. In 2011–12 she was a Cullman Fellow […]
July 20, 2015
William Stobb
William Stobb is the author of five poetry collections, including the National Poetry Series selection Nervous Systems (2007) and Absentia (2011), both from Penguin Books. Stobb works as associate editor […]
July 6, 2015
KR Podcast with David Baker and Caitlin Horrocks
What makes a bad poem, what makes a bad book review, and what makes a bad strategy for integrating research into your writing? KR editors discuss the answers to these […]
July 6, 2015
Lily Tuck
Lily Tuck is the author of five novels, including The News from Paraguay, which won the National Book Award, two story collections, and a biography of the Italian writer Elsa […]
June 22, 2015
Garret Keizer
Garret Keizer is the author of eight books, the most recent of which is Getting Schooled (Metropolitan, 2014). A contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, he has also written for Agni, […]
June 19, 2015
KR Podcast with Amy Williams
In this episode of the Kenyon Review Podcast, literary agent Amy Williams of the Williams Company gives advice about how emerging writers can connect with agents, explains recent changes in […]
June 8, 2015
Rusty Morrison
Rusty Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta) was published in January 2014. After Urgency won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize, the true keeps calm biding its story won the Academy of American Poet’s […]
May 26, 2015
Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze’s latest book of poetry is Compass Rose (Copper Canyon, 2014), and Pig’s Heaven Inn, bilingual selected poems, was published in Beijing (Intellectual Property Publishing House, 2014). He received […]
May 11, 2015
Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy is the author of Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow, and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. She edited Black Nature: Four […]
April 27, 2015
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is the author of two new books, The Beauty (poems) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (essays), both appearing from Knopf in spring 2015. She […]
April 13, 2015
Amanda Calderon
Amanda Calderon holds an MFA from New York University. She was a 2014 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow and a 2012 fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Other writing […]