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The Kenyon Review

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

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Nonfiction

Three Irish Comedies

Poetry

For Robert Frost, in the Autumn after His Death

By Howard Nemerov

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Bones and Lavish

By William McLeod Rivera

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Sir John by Starlight

By Michael Mott

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For Wise Men . . .

By Michael Mott

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Miss Jack

By Frederick Bock

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The Second Sleep

By James Dickey

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Heart Failure

By Robert Hollander

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The Wolf in the Picture: A Short Story

By John Taylor

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A Dead Girl

By John Taylor

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Letter from a Surgeon’s Wife

By Horace Hamilton

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Learning by Doing

By Howard Nemerov

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A Sight of the Negro Funeral

By Robert Wallace

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Book Reviews

Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

A Dark Plot

By Anthony Ostroff

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A Taste of Ashes

By George Hemphill

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