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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

Fiction

Martha, from Premières pages

By Yves Navarre, translated by Howard Girven

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Sincerely, Yours

By Melvin Jules Bukiet

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Missing Persons

By Leigh Allison Wilson

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Magia D’Amore

By Murray Pomerance

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New British Poetry: An Anthology

New British Poetry Introduction

By Rodney Pybus

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The Last Candles

By Tony Curtis

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Lines at Barry

By Tony Curtis

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‘Jig of the Week No. 21’

By Douglas Dunn

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Belling the Cat

By Tom Paulin

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Let No Man Write My Epitaph

By Tom Paulin

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Gifts

By Jon Silkin

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A Dying

By lain Crichton Smith

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Poem

By lain Crichton Smith

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Child

By lain Crichton Smith

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Naming the Flowers

By Anne Stevenson

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Jarrow¹

By Anne Stevenson

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Poetry

Annual Report

By Sydney Lea

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Raphael

By Daniel Mark Epstein

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‘Life before Birth,’ a Display

By Clare Rossini

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A Mourning Dove in New York City

By Clare Rossini

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Portrait: Woman, Aged Thirty, Posed on Flowered Couch

By Clare Rossini

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Spring, Robinsons’ Farm

By Ursula K. Le Guin

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Pane

By Ursula K. Le Guin

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In That Ohio

By Ursula K. Le Guin

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Homework

By Robert B. Shaw

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Extended Run

By Robert B. Shaw

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Old Burying Ground

By Robert B. Shaw

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Kneeling at Easter to the Season’s First Bloodroot

By James Baker Hall

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Winter Trees in the Middle Distance

By James Baker Hall

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The Relinquishments

By James Baker Hall

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March 11, 50°

By Brendan Galvin

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September Dory Race

By Brendan Galvin

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Stories

By Stephen Dunn

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Book Reviews