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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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Editor’s Notes

Editorial: On Art and the Creative Process

By P. D. C.

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Fiction

Levitation

By Melvin Jules Bukiet

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A Dream of Fair Women

By Gina Berriault

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Chicken Little

By Amy Herrick

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Twilight: After Haying

By Jane Kenyon

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Summer House

By Dave Smith

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My Daughter and I

By Masao Nonagase, translated by Junko Yoshida

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The Vestiges of Passion

By Masao Nonagase, translated by Junko Yoshida

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Honeymoon, All Soul’s

By Glenn Cannon Arbery

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The Dedicant*

By David Bergman

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The Fall

By Dieter Weslowski

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Siesta: Barbados

By Jane Kenyon

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About Old Age Blues in the Sunset

By Masao Nonagase

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Pregnant

By Dave Smith

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Point of Rocks, Texas

By Naomi Shihab Nye

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Looking for the Cat Grave

By Naomi Shihab Nye

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Envoy

By Masao Nonagase, translated by Junko Yoshida

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A Cruel End to My Desire

By Masao Nonagase, translated by Junko Yoshida

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Back from the City

By Jane Kenyon

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Ancestral Farmhouse

By Dave Smith

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Pillage

By Dave Smith

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Inventory

By Dieter Weslowski

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Cardiogram

By David Bergman

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Field Music

By Dave Smith

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Personally Speaking

My Legacy

By Don Zacharia

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Book Reviews

The Fate of Iconography

By Barry Weller

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Victorian Realities

By Nina Auerbach

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Erotic, Ghostly Atmospheres

By Ben Howard

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