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August 5, 2019

Shelley Wong

Shelley Wong is a Kundiman Fellow and the author of the chapbook Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, and Sycamore Review, […]

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July 22, 2019

Ariel Delgado Dixon

Ariel Delgado Dixon was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Masters Review Anthology Prize, and her work now appears in their New […]

July 16, 2019

KR Podcast with Meg Freitag

Kenyon Review Associate and Intern Trudy Wrona interviews Meg Freitag about her new collection of poems, Edith, a book that explores grief and trauma through poems addressed to Freitag’s dead […]

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June 20, 2019

KR Podcast with Sarah Weinman

KR editor at large Katharine Weber talks with author Sarah Weinman about Nabokov’s Lolita, our fascination with crime and our capability toward misdeeds. Sarah Weinman is the author of The […]

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June 17, 2019

Roberto Castillo Sandoval

Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean essayist, novelist, and translator. His works include Antípodas (Cuarto Propio, 2014), a translation of Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener into Spanish (Hueders, 2017), and a […]

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June 3, 2019

Ryan C.K. Choi

Ryan C. K. Choi lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was born and raised. His work has appeared in Harper’s, BOMB, Yale Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere. His translation of Sanki […]

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May 20, 2019

Dora Malech

Dora Malech’s most recent book of poetry is Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in publications that include the New Yorker, Poetry, and Tin House. She is […]

May 10, 2019

Proof Casts A Shadow: A Special KR Podcast

Kenyon Review fellow Misha Rai sits down with Gabrielle Bellot and Nay Saysourinho to discuss narratives that address the language of citizenship, colonialism, labels, and identity. Gabrielle Bellot is a […]

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May 7, 2019

Nathaniel Perry

Nathaniel Perry is the author of a book of poems, Nine Acres, (Copper Canyon, APR, 2011). He is the editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review and lives in rural southside […]

April 23, 2019

KR Podcast with Kimiko Hahn

Poet Kimiko Hahn talks about the significance of translation and conceiving words as portals and playgrounds with her Peter Taylor Fellow Sylvia Beato-Davis. Kimiko Hahn’s latest book, Brain Fever, is […]

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April 23, 2019

Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae’s most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) and In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 […]

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April 9, 2019

Olivia Sears

Olivia E. Sears is founder of the Center for the Art of Translation and the journal Two Lines, which she edited for more than a decade. Poems from her translation […]