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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

Ensemble

By Melissa Lentricchia

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Man at Low Volume

By Rita J. Doucette

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Silver Dollars

By Phyllis Barber

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Sound Effects

By David Ely

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Bothering

By Jack Matthews

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Soft Lens

By Diane Ackerman

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At Walt Whitman’s Birthplace, Huntington, Long Island

By Diane Ackerman

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Aviatrix

By Diane Ackerman

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Swimming Pool Pastoral

By Laurence Lieberman

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Herons and Water Lilies

By Louis Simpson

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The Snow’s Code

By James Applewhite

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Sherwood Anderson Walks Out

By Debra Allbery

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Sentiment

By Debra Allbery

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Marriage

By Brian Swann

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Worlds

By Brian Swann

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Carthage

By Brian Swann

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Shooting for Shape

By Rick Lott

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The Man Who Loved Distance

By Rick Lott

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Fluffy in Heaven

By James Solheim

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My Father Playing Pool

By James Solheim

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The Hermit Wordman

By John Holloway

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Villanelle: Success Story at Sea

By John Holloway

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‘The Deed Is Done’

By John Holloway

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Book Reviews