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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

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Kenyon Review Classics

Fiction

Bruno

By Josip Novakovich

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What We Are Best At

By Mike Lohre

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Here’s a Shot of Us at the Grand Canyon

By Randy F. Nelson

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Heaven

By Cary Holladay

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Nonfiction

Drama

Deer on a Wire from “Last Lists of My Mad Mother”, a Full-Length Play

By Julie Jensen

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Poetry

Flesh and Blood

By Ellen Cantor

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Port Olry

By Campbell McGrath

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To the Heart on Sunday

By Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak

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Dime Store Erotics

By Ann Townsend

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Chariots

By Thylias Moss

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Atomic Age

By Robert Morgan

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Poppies

By Deanne Lundin

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A Night in Dubai

By Bino A. Realuyo

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An Old Airman Who Knows Who He Was

By Philip Booth

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As Empty as a Church, I Believe I Am a Small Testament to the Failing Relationship between Space and Light

By Olena Kalytiak Davis

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Fire Handling

By Robert Morgan

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Conjure

By Robert Wrigley

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Capitalist Poem #42

By Campbell McGrath

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Chiaroscuro

By George Keithley

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Last Poem

By Jesse Lee Kercheval

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A Dove

By Campbell McGrath

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Ant Farm

By Thylias Moss

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Chicory Seeds

By Deanne Lundin

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Making Dresses

By Thylias Moss

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Song of Separation 3

By Stuart Lishan

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Pursuit

By Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak

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The Fiction Shelf

By Albert Goldbarth

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House by a Green Sea

By Ann Townsend

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A Thank-You Note

By Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak

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Mouvance

By A. R. Ammons

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The Loom

By Joyce E. Peseroff

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Raising the Blinds

By Robert Gibb

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Song of Separation 2

By Stuart Lishan

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What We Knew

By Ellen Cantor

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In Defense of Marriage

By Olena Kalytiak Davis

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Diary Entry, March 24

By Eleanor Ross Taylor

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Riffs & Reciprocities

By Stephen Dunn

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Rogue Elephant

By A. R. Ammons

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Incantation

By Peter Cooley

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A Hot Time in a Small Town

By Thylias Moss

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Song of Separation

By Stuart Lishan

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Waiting for UPS

By Bob Hicok

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Liberty

By Michael Heffernan

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Book Reviews

Three Polish Poets, Two Nobel Prizes

By John Carpenter

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