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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 Lesson

By Gwen Strauss

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Temporary Tattoos

By Marilyn Sides

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The Witch of Owl Mountain Springs: An Account of Her Remarkable Powers

By Peter Taylor

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Death by Vending Machine

By Alyce Miller

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Requiem for Bread

By Paul Willems, translated by Suzanne Burgoyne Dieckman

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Elena

By Devon Jersild

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Geller’s Last Chance

By Zvi Jagendorf

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Essays

Poetry

When You Wish upon a Star That Turns into a Plane

By James Harms

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The Monarch of Meritocracy

By Debra Hines

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Ragged Sonnets: LXXXI

By Leonard Nathan

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Thinking of David Summers at the Beginning of Winter

By Charles Wright

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At Gettysburg

By Linda Pastan

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Beginnings

By Michael Burns

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Cruising

By William Olsen

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Explaining the Evening News to Corbyn

By James Harms

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Sleeping Together

By Robert J. Levy

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Sky

By Angela Ball

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Carnival

By Lynda Hull

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After the Great Plains

By Jim Barnes

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Four Days: Earthquake

By Gary Young

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Lost Fugue for Chet

By Lynda Hull

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The Auction

By Galway Kinnell

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Fall

By Leon Stokesbury

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Men

By Cathy Smith-Bowers

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Guilt

By Linda Pastan

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Dancing after Oswiecim

By Penelope Austin

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Fourth and Magnolia

By Aleda Shirley

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How to Eat

By David J. Rothman

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Just

By Andrea Hollander Budy

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Bed

By Linda Pastan

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Improvisation

By T. Alan Broughton

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Night Flight

By Jim Barnes

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Susan Hahn

By Susan Hahn

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Text

By Angela Ball

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Tuesday at First Presbyterian

By Carl Dennis

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The Feast

By Donald Morrill

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Serious Affection

By James Harms

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