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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 2009

Vol. XXXI, No. 1

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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2008 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

New Voices

On Kascha Semonovitch

By David Baker

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New

By Kascha Semonovitch

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Birch, Pine, Palm

By Kascha Semonovitch

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If

By Kascha Semonovitch

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Trio

By Kascha Semonovitch

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Postcards

By Kascha Semonovitch

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Fiction

All the Time in the World

By E. L. Doctorow

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The Spill

By Joyce Carol Oates

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All the Time

By Robb Forman Dew

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Special

By Kit Reed

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Dido Refuses to Speak

By Linda Gregerson

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A Long Time I’ve Wanted to Say Something

By Paul Guest

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Almost Tenderly

By Carl Phillips

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Conquest

By Carl Phillips

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Tell Me a Story

By Carl Phillips

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Next Stop, Arcadia

By Carl Phillips

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The Life You Save

By Carl Phillips

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Blue My Promise a Swan

By Kazim Ali

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Leonard Brown, Musician/Teacher

By Michael S. Harper

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Apollo in the Grass

By Aleksandr Kushner, translated by Carol R. Ueland and Robert Carnevale

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Undertow, Memory, Regret, and Silence

By Rachel Hadas

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Green River Cemetery

By Carol Muske-Dukes

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The Grief Game

By Carol Muske-Dukes

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The Sense of Style

By Daniel Mark Epstein

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The Man Who Wasn’t Loved Enough

By David Bergman

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That Map of Bone and Opened Valves

By Ilya Kaminsky

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