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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 2008

Vol. XXX, No. 2

Editor’s Notes

Fiction

Meantime, Quentin Ghlee

By M. M. M. Hayes

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The City and the Moon

By Deborah Schwartz

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Quarantine

By Rahul Mehta

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The Road

By Carolyn Buchanan

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Nonfiction

No

By Brian Doyle

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A Life in Pods

By Michelle Richmond

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Winding Threads

By Kate Maloy

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Salter’s Gift

By Jeffrey Meyers

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The Craft of Thought: The Sentence in Contemporary Poetry

By William Wenthe

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Poetry

Mosul

By David Hernandez

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Patter to Mend

By Alex Lemon

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And All the Bells Were Ringing

By Doug Sanders

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How like the Heart the Thumb

By J. Allyn Rosser

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Intercourse

By Robert Olen Butler

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Personality State: Prophet

By Jennifer Militello

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Personality State: Scavenger’s Daughter

By Jennifer Militello

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River Pilgrims

By Jennifer Chang

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Equivalents

By Derek Mong

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What It Cost

By Deanne Lundin

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How Tulips Invented Jazz

By Deanne Lundin

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Beginning and Ending with Birdcall

By Joanna Goodman

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Were This a Wish with a Plea

By Joanna Goodman

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Hovering

By Joanna Goodman

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Gallows Portraits

By Adam Day

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Aubade

By Adam Day

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Review

By Increments

By David Wojahn

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