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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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Special Issue: Impure Form

Guest Editor: Albert Goldbarth

Introductions

Bubble Hubbub

By Antler

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‘… Observing a Spear of Summer Grass’

By Robert Atwan

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Three from Shaving

By Stephen Berg

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Midwest Haiku

By Norbert Blei

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Unholy

By Lucie Brock-Broido

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From the Proscenium

By Lucie Brock-Broido

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Lost in the Fire

By David Clewell

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Europe in 1914

By Dewitt Clinton

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Dreaming Aloud

By Bernard Cooper

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From “Song of Myself”: The Comic Book

By George Dardess

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Found Poems: Observations and Experiments in Natural History

By Annie Dillard

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Found Poems: Class Notes on Painting and the Arts

By Annie Dillard

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The Trap

By Jack Driscoll and Bill Meissner

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Voices of Ice

By Jack Driscoll and Bill Meissner

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The Times and Trials of Moses Austin

By Donald Finkel

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Delft: An Essay-Poem

By Albert Goldbarth

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Losers, Keepers: The Opus of Wilhelmina Scrowd

By Pamela White Hadas

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The Wristwatch

By Louis Jenkins

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Out-of-the-Body Travel

By Louis Jenkins

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The Meaning of Something

By Robert Kelly

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Sea

By Kenneth Koch

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The Life of the City

By Kenneth Koch

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From the Story of Anna Swan

By Margaret Lally

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The Hitchhiker

By Sydney Lea

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Willie and the Water Pipe

By David Lee

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Lifestyles Prince

By Laurence Lieberman

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Sisters

By Robert McDowell

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A Week and a Day with Fra Filipo Lippi’s Frescoes in the Cathedral at Spoleto

By Jim Moore

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Mira

By Jim Moore

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Love Po | Rose

By Dave Morice

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The Bambutti: Pygmies of the Congo

By Jack Myers

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Profane Language among the Tribes of the Upper Tangi

By Opal Louis Nations

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I Stand before You Naked

By Joyce Carol Oates

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The Maker of Parables

By Joyce Carol Oates

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