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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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Fiction

The Chevigny Man

By Robie Macauley

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Nonfiction

Poetry

In This Hotel There Are No Rooms (A sign outside a Hotel in Venice)

By Edgar Bogardus

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The Closet

By Edgar Bogardus

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My Parents Enroute

By David Ferry

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The Embarkation for Cythera

By David Ferry

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A Mothers’ Idyll

By Douglas Nichols

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Hermes in California

By Douglas Nichols

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Letter to the World

By Douglas Nichols

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The Creative Urge

By Douglas Nichols

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The Sage by the Sea-Shore

By David Ferry

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Initial Letters

By Joseph Warren Beach

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Malentendu

By Joseph Warren Beach

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Winter Landscape, Tien Shan

By W. P. Southard

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Book Reviews