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Margot Livesey
June 4, 2018

KR Podcast with Margot Livesey

During a recent visit to the Kenyon College campus, novelist Margot Livesey talked to Visiting Thomas Professor of Creative Writing and Kenyon Review editor at large, Katharine Weber, about how […]

Kathleen Ossip
May 28, 2018

Kathleen Ossip

Kathleen Ossip is the author of three books of poetry, including The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She was a 2016–17 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced […]

Patricia Engel
May 14, 2018

Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean (Grove, 2016), a New York Times Editors’ Choice; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris (Grove, 2013), winner of the […]

April 30, 2018

KR Podcast with Javier Zamora

Javier Zamora, author of the poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press) and currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, talks with Andrew Grace of the Kenyon English faculty about […]

Jamie Quatro
April 26, 2018

Jamie Quatro

Jamie Quatro is the author of the story collection I Want To Show You More (Grove, 2013) and the forthcoming novel Fire Sermon (Grove/Picador, 2018). She lives in Lookout Mountain, […]

David Butler
April 16, 2018

David Butler

David Butler’s most recent of three published novels, City of Dis (New Island), was shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year, 2015. A short story collection, No Greater Love, […]

Kimberly Blaeser
March 29, 2018

KR Podcast with Kimberly Blaeser

Anishinaabe poet and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser speaks with Janet McAdams, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in Poetry at Kenyon College, about picto-poems, watery places, and Native writing in […]

Claire Boyles
March 26, 2018

Claire Boyles

Claire Boyles is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University. Her work has appeared in the Masters Review and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and she is the recipient of a scholarship […]

Nate Marshall
March 13, 2018

KR Podcast with Nate Marshall

In this episode, Andrew Grace talks to poet and editor Nate Marshall about Seamus Heaney’s sense of place, poetry as a team sport, writing rap lyrics vs. lyric poems, and, […]

Tommye Blount
March 12, 2018

Tommye Blount

Tommye Blount is the author of What Are We Not For, published by Bull City Press in 2016. A graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, he has […]

Photo of Katherine M. Hedeen
February 28, 2018

KR Podcast with Katherine Hedeen

In this edition, Andrew Grace talks with Kenyon College Spanish professor and translator Katherine Hedeen about the special section on new Cuban poetry in the Jan/Feb issue of the Kenyon […]

Legna Rodriguez Iglesias
February 12, 2018

Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (Camagüey, 1984) is a poet, prose writer, and playwright. She has four books of poetry, the latest being Hilo + Hilo (2015). She has received the Julio […]