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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 2009

Vol. XXXI, No. 2

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Drama

The Oldsmobiles

By Roger Rosenblatt

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Fiction

Mountain Weather

By Scott Russell Sanders

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Under the Shell Sign

By Carlos Cunha

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The All-Night Coffee Shop

By Judy Troy

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What Will Make This All Right

By Meghan Kenny

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The Bowmaker’s Cats

By Gregory Spatz

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Nonfiction

Poetry

My Wife’s Camera Bag and the Fuji Camera Card inside It

By Leon Stokesbury

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A Custom of Mourning

By Mary Ruefle

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Bright Enough

By Mary Ruefle

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One World at a Time

By Mary Ruefle

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Metaphysical Blight

By Mary Ruefle

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Apologia

By Mary Ruefle

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New Morning

By Mary Ruefle

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The Sleepless

By Carl Dennis

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Woman inside a Tree

By Melissa Kwasny

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The Lights of Earth

By Melissa Kwasny

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At the Shore

By Melissa Kwasny

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Winter Bouquet

By Melissa Kwasny

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The Island

By James Longenbach

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In Winter

By Mark Irwin

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Red Feather

By Mark Irwin

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Nocturne

By Deborah Landau

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How to Put It

By Renée Ashley

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What Is Visible Is What Mostly Is

By Renée Ashley

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Outside Santa Maria in Trastevere

By Zach Savich

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My Waiting Brain

By Bruce Weigl

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The Country That We Love

By Bruce Weigl

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Devotion: Rent

By Bruce Smith

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for the coming pandemic

By D. A. Powell

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The Wardrobe Lesson

By Rita Dove

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Janissary Rap

By Rita Dove

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Ode on a Negress Head Clock, with Eight Tunes

By Rita Dove

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Concert at Hanover Square

By Rita Dove

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Review

In the Hurricane’s Eye: On “The Butterfly’s Burden”

By Kazim Ali

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