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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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Autumn 2004

Vol. XXVI, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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New Voices

Generations: An Excerpt from “Novella”

By Samantha Simpson

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Young Writers

On the First “Kenyon Review” Poetry Prize for Young Writers

By David H. Lynn

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A Birth

By Robin Myers

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Art Appreciation

By Madeline Weinstein

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Spilled Rice

By Laura Bennett

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Fiction

Seven Remedies

By Catherine Brady

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The Photograph

By James D. Redwood

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Blind Spot

By Kit Coyne Irwin

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Nonfiction

Poetry

My Father in the Wind

By Philip Levine

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Morning in Liguria

By Philip Levine

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The Death of Mayakovsky

By Philip Levine

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The Forgotten Traveler

By Guy Goffette, translated by Marilyn Hacker

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To Cavafy

By Guy Goffette, translated by Marilyn Hacker

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Evening & Utero

By Tenaya Darlington

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Petition

By Tenaya Darlington

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Pomme Prisonniere

By Tenaya Darlington

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Letter to the Unconverted

By Jason Gray

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They Shoot Birds

By Dionisio D. Martínez

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The Sutradhar: Narrator of Fragments from Family Sagas

By Jean Arasanayagam

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Elephants and Butterflies

By Alan Michael Parker

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The Middle of Experience

By John Koethe

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This Morning

By John Koethe

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Sally’s Hair

By John Koethe

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