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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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Winter 2004

Vol. XXVI, No. 1

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Fiction

In the Park

By Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee

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The Penance Practicum

By Erin McGraw

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Episode from the History

By Alison Bundy

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Ralphie’s Clarinet

By Robert McKean

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Dummies, Shakers, Barkers, Wanderers

By Lee Martin

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Nonfiction

Drama

Mercury Seven with Signs Following

By Mark Evans Bryan

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Poetry

Folded Back

By Rachel Hadas

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The Lost Watch

By John Bensko

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Let Me Remind You You Are Still under Oath

By Nance Van Winckel

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The Haunting

By Alan Shapiro

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Ghost Watch

By Alan Shapiro

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Take Off

By Alan Shapiro

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Inscriptions on Wax Tablets

By Laura Kasischke

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Summer, Here

By Laura Kasischke

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Techno

By Dana Levin

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Suttee

By Dana Levin

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The Washing

By Dana Levin

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Visiting the Lady with the Plant

By David Wagoner

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The Feelers

By Albert Goldbarth

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Five Pounds

By Albert Goldbarth

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Poem for Fathers and for Sons

By Steve Orlen

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Review

‘Jealous of Dead Leaves’: The Reach of the Living Sonnet

By Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor

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