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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

The More I like Flies

By Reginald McKnight

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Bases

By Scott Gould

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Cherry Bombs

By Maxine Clair

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Essays

Drama

Thicket

By Susan Griffin

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Poetry

Clementene

By Jane Cooper

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From the Journal concerning My Father

By Jane Cooper

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How Can I Speak for Her?

By Jane Cooper

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Birthright

By Claudine Rankine

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New Windows

By Claudine Rankine

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Pantoum for the Children, so They Will Know Yiddish

By Judy Goldman

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What Grandmother Said

By Inez Petersen

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To Hermes

By Alfred Corn

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Sugar Cane

By Alfred Corn

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The Lights on the Harbor

By Rachael Mayer

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Letters to the Baby

By Rachael Mayer

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Tonight I Can Almost Hear the Singing

By Silvia Curbelo

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Fatima

By Laura Kasischke

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Decorum

By Stephen Dunn

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Rodeo Lips

By Mary Hussman

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Three Poems Written on the Back Flap of a Book by Moshe Dor

By Toi Derricote

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Clitoris

By Toi Derricote

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Quandary

By Toi Derricote

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Tender

By Toi Derricote

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Passing

By Toi Derricote

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The Sorrow

By Michael Klein

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What It Is like for You

By Michael Klein

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Churches

By Michael Klein

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Gandhi Joins the Work Force

By Toni Mirosevich

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Virginia Woolf Joins the Work Force

By Toni Mirosevich

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Apple Colloquies

By Mark McMorris

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Capitalism as We Know It

By Kathleene West

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Cravings

By Kathleene West

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The Perfect Circle

By Dionisio D. Martínez

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Lost in the Streets

By Dionisio D. Martínez

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Interview

We Are, in Fact, a Civilization: An Interview with Reginald McKnight

By William Walsh and Reginald McKnight

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Review

The New Shape-Changers

By Robyn Selman

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