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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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Spring 2005

Vol. XXVII, No. 2

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By D. H. L.

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New Voices

Fiction

Death Explains Himself

By Roger Rosenblatt

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The Elephant Man

By Miranda F. Mellis

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Teeth

By Mary Rechner

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Squirrels

By Anthony Winner

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Nonfiction

Drama

Going after Cacciato: From the Novel by Tim O’Brien

By Romulus Linney

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Poetry

With Benjamin Franklin

By Carl Dennis

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Our Generation

By Carl Dennis

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Radiance versus Ordinary Light

By Carl Phillips

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Erasure

By Carl Phillips

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Affliction

By Carl Phillips

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A Version

By Fanny Howe

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The Seduction

By Jill Bialosky

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The Poet Contemplates the Intensity of Her Emotions

By Jill Bialosky

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The Poet Contemplates the Nature of Reality

By Jill Bialosky

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The End of Love

By Jill Bialosky

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Winter Mornings in Kendall

By Charlie Smith

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Hollyhocks

By Charlie Smith

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Jargon

By Charlie Smith

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Scar Tissue II

By Charles Wright

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Synapse

By David Woo

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Centaur

By Chase Twichell

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Dream Baby

By Chase Twichell

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Infant Pearls

By Chase Twichell

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Gregor Mendel in the Garden

By Linda Bierds

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Terce: Gregor Mendel and Script

By Linda Bierds

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Sext: Gregor Mendel and the Bells

By Linda Bierds

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Gregor Mendel and the Calico Caps

By Linda Bierds

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six pieces of “Severance”

By Robert Olen Butler

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Stomacher: 1740s

By Terri Witek

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Carriage Lamp with Wasps

By Terri Witek

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from “Blue Front”

By Martha Collins

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