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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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New Verse by Five Poets

Lullaby (for music)

By Genevieve Taggard

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Remote Design

By Genevieve Taggard

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Problem Evil into Cocoon

By Genevieve Taggard

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The Weed

By Genevieve Taggard

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The Dream-Singing Elegy¹

By Muriel Rukeyser

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The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division

By Randall Jarrell

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Conjectural Domain

By Jean Garrigue

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Discourse

By Jean Garrigue

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Twenty-One Years

By Robert Horan

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Litany

By Robert Horan

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Palms and Calendars

By Robert Horan

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January

By Robert Horan

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Fiction

A Wet Day

By Mary Lavin

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The Football Players

By Wentzle Ruml III

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Old James

By Marguerite Young

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Nonfiction

The Blood of a Poet

By C. G. Wallis

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Three Portraits from Gide’s Journal

By André Gide, translated by F. W. Dupee

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Poetry

Seasons of the Soul (To J. P. B.)

By Allen Tate

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Discussion

Book Reviews

Verse and Poetry

By Arthur Mizener

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The Hero in Russia

By Delmore Schwartz

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A Fully Proportioned European

By Philip Rhys Adams

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Many Ways of Evil

By Jean Garrigue

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Partisan and Tendencious

By Philip Wheelwright

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Bird’s Eye View

By Lloyd Mallan

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Criticism from Oxford

By Lawrence Leighton

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Satan and Denis De Rougemont

By C. G. Wallis

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Putting the Ego on the Other Foot

By Horace Gregory

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