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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

Girl Talk

By Susan Volchok

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Open House

By Norman Wong

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Hollywood

By Marina Budhos

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A Bicycle Story

By E.J. Graff

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The Ungodly Are Not So

By Richard Hill

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Essays

Poetry

Thinking about Citizenship while the Workmen Are Here

By Reetika Vazirani

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Mi Vida

By Martín Espada

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636 11th

By Jan Clausen

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Driving into the Unbeautiful City

By Steve Langan

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Juan Angel

By Rane Arroyo

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Tantrum Girl Responds to Death

By Michelle T. Clinton

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Spared

By Tory Dent

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Nipples

By Don Mager

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The Lights of Marfa

By Cathy Bowman

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Return to a Spring Full of Little Boys

By Ken Fontenot

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Timberland

By Mary Ruefle

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Central Standard Time

By Kevin Young

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Driving Independence Day

By Kevin Young

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No Offense

By Kevin Young

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The Quick Cave

By Terese Svoboda

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Watermelon Tales

By Khaled Mattawa

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The Bloomingfoods Promise

By Khaled Mattawa

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Herodotus on a Date

By Khaled Mattawa

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leda 3: a personal note (re: visitations)

By Lucille Clifton

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Them and Us

By Lucille Clifton

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[Each Morning I Pull Myself]

By Lucille Clifton

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Countryside

By Jane Miller

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More or Less a Sorrow

By Jane Miller

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Seven Days

By Carl Dennis

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Track Meet

By Carl Dennis

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Two or Three Wishes

By Carl Dennis

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Wash, Early Monday

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

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At Three or Four

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

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Dead Pig

By John Engels

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Newborn

By John Engels

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Interview

The Art of History: An Interview with Michelle Cliff

By Judith Raiskin and Michelle Cliff

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Reviews

Steel around a Bouquet

By Michael Klein

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Kinds of Knowing

By David Baker

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