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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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Front Matter

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Kenyon Review Classic

Fiction

He Sleeps

By Reginald McKnight

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My Gun

By Tess Gallagher

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Feeding the Stick

By Nancy Zafris

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African Queen

By Alyce Miller

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Myra

By Ruth Hamel

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Essays

A Hemingway Story

By Andre Dubus

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Story’s Gamble with History

By Anthony Winner

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Poetry

Basic Dialogue

By Charles Wright

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Stray Paragraphs in April, Year of the Rat

By Charles Wright

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A Bad Memory Makes You a Metaphysician, a Good One Makes You a Saint

By Charles Wright

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On Methodist Hill

By David Bottoms

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My Uncle Sowing Beatitudes

By David Bottoms

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A Walk to Carter’s Lake

By David Bottoms

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An Owl

By David Bottoms

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A Room on Washington Avenue

By David Bottoms

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Poem about the Cages with a Sentence from Wallace Stevens

By Renée Ashley

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The Revisionist’s Dream (I)

By Renée Ashley

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The Revisionist’s Dream (III)

By Renée Ashley

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Spell to Be Said after Illness

By Jane Hirshfield

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Broken-off Twig Budding out in the Path

By Jane Hirshfield

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Orange Oil in Darkness

By Jane Hirshfield

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Apology

By Rosa Alcalá

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Es todo llegar a cantar / To Begin Singing Is Everything

By Rosa Alcalá

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Farewell

By Agha Shahid Ali

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The Floating Post Office

By Agha Shahid Ali

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Lo, a tint cashmere! / Lo, a Rose!

By Agha Shahid Ali

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Baksheesh

By Stan Sanvel Rubin

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No Difference I Know They Are

By Donald Revell

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Thanksgiving for a Son

By Donald Revell

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Ancient Divinities

By Charles Simic

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The Wake

By Charles Simic

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Mummy’s Curse

By Charles Simic

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The Piñata

By Alexander Thorburn

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The Woods

By Alexander Thorburn

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Husband and Wife

By Edward Hirsch

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A Fundamentalist

By Edward Hirsch

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Horse

By Mark Irwin

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Elk

By Mark Irwin

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The Ship under the Foot of the Elephant

By Mary Jane Nealon

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Tagged

By Mary Jane Nealon

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Stillborn

By Jennifer O’Grady

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White

By Jennifer O’Grady

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Definitions Containing Loss

By Jennifer O’Grady

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1961

By Ann Keniston

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Our Alliance

By Ann Keniston

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Plush Fire

By Robert Thomas

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Movietime

By Irving Feldman

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Newspaper Photograph

By Trent Busch

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The Vase of Flowers

By Trent Busch

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Broken Vessels

By Richard Chess

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