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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

Something about the Nature of Midnight

By Kate Braverman

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The Sprite

By John Foster

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Cupid’s Carriers

By E. Shaskan Bumas

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Way Station

By Mario Fortunato, translated by David Tager

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Teams

By Lynn Marie

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Essay

Anchoring Natalia Ginzburg

By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

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Drama

Everything You’re Giving Me Is Just Things You’re Giving Me

By Armand Schwerner and Ellen Zweig

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Poetry

What Language Did

By Eavan Boland

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The Gurney

By Alicia Ostriker

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Riddle: Post-op

By Alicia Ostriker

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December Thirty-First

By Alicia Ostriker

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Normal

By Alicia Ostriker

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Healing

By Alicia Ostriker

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Years of Girlhood (For My Students)

By Alicia Ostriker

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The River

By Alicia Ostriker

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Epilogue: Nevertheless

By Alicia Ostriker

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The Canoe Ride

By Kenny Fries

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Islands

By Kenny Fries

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Dream

By Elizabeth Alexander

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Haircut

By Elizabeth Alexander

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In the Small Rooms

By Elizabeth Alexander

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Bernini in Winter: The Seizure

By John Frederick Nims

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Pascal on Ultrasound

By John Frederick Nims

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Confession

By Patricia Traxler

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The Visit

By Patricia Traxler

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My Mother in Her Garden Turning a Kaleidoscope

By George Witte

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Stage Directions for a Short Play

By Rachel Wetzsteon

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Thoughts in the Cabin

By Robert Bly

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History

By Aleida Rodríguez

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Landscape

By Aleida Rodríguez

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The Pied-Piper of Murderloin Downs

By Stephen Todd Booker

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Sandii

By Stephen Todd Booker

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The Moonlite Inn

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

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Cowbell

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

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Tapes

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

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The Pictures

By Evelyn Lau

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Stone

By Pam A. Parker

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I Know You

By Linda Smukler

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Sign

By Linda Smukler

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Suits and Ties

By Linda Smukler

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Outsider: Juanita Rogers

By Sandra McPherson

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Outsider: Minnie Evans

By Sandra McPherson

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Far Rockaway

By Maureen Seaton

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Clarinets

By Maureen Seaton

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White Dancing

By Maureen Seaton

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From the Artichoke Capital of the World Namesake of Fidel, as Is the Queer Part of San Francisco

By Michelle Cliff

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Interview

A Lot of Memory: An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid

By Moira Ferguson and Jamaica Kincaid

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