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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 2014

Vol. XXXVI, No. 2

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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The Kenyon Review Credos

Fiction

Three Sisters

By Michael McGuire

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An Ottoman’s Arabesque

By Ayşe Papatya Bucak

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Beauty in the Age of Chaos and Savagery

By Michael Nye

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The Reason for All My Sounds

By Debbie Urbanski

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Night Swim

By Vojislav Pejović

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River

By Debra Nystrom

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Busy Their Hands

By Carol Ann Davis

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How It Sounds

By Talvikki Ansel

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Sundial

By Ted Kooser

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Jane Austen

By Jill Bialosky

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The Lucky Ones

By Jill Bialosky

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Secretive Soil Fauna

By Emily Wilson

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Exhibition

By Emily Wilson

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Turned Figure

By Emily Wilson

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Hibernal

By Emily Wilson

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Strobilus

By Emily Wilson

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I Am Writing an Article (Johnny Cash)

By Gillian Conoley

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On the Day the World Is Forecast to End and Does Not

By K. A. Hays

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Another Prophecy Unfulfilled

By K. A. Hays

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River

By Tony Hoagland

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K Street in Springtime

By Tony Hoagland

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Remaining the Same

By Stephen Dunn

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My Bad

By Stephen Dunn

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Review

Doorstops and Leave-takings: Four Poets

By David Wojahn

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