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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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Fiction

Long Night

By Reynolds Price

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Colette

By Arnošt Lustig, translated by Tim Whipple

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Essays

Drama

Poetry

Greek

By T. R. Hummer

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Resurrection

By Ira Sadoff

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Her Ring

By Marilyn Hacker

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Draggers

By Brendan Galvin

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Fleshing-out the Season

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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Drilling the Troops

By Lee Harlin Bahan

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Hiroshima

By Dorothy Coffin Sussman

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Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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Quai Saint-Bernard

By Marilyn Hacker

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History Lessons

By Yusef Komunyakaa

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Skylights

By Brendan Galvin

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Philadelphia Sentimental

By T. R. Hummer

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Hope

By Lee Harlin Bahan

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Last Bard in Wales

By Lee Harlin Bahan

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Hummingbirds

By Robert Cording

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The Thing about Crows

By Josephine Jacobsen

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The Minor Poet

By Josephine Jacobsen

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I Have Something to Declare

By Josephine Jacobsen

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Silent in the Valleys

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Confusion in the Drought Years

By T. R. Hummer

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Creatures Who Must Know Better Have Taken Me for a Blossom

By Kevin Stein

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Letter on June 15

By Marilyn Hacker

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House Wrens

By James McKean

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In God’s Night

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Another Love Poem

By Jayanta Mahapatra

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Lifting the Morning

By Colleen J. McElroy

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Survivor’s Ballad

By Josephine Jacobsen

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Modern History

By Carol Frost

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The Box This Comes In

By C. D. Wright

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And These Are Just a Few…

By Melvin Dixon

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For Matthew Ward, 1951-1990

By Richard Howard

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I Forgive the Sparrows

By Ira Sadoff

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The Provisional Life

By C. D. Wright

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