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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 2012

Vol. XXXIV, No. 1

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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2011 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

Short Fiction Prize Introduction

By Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

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Chiasmus

By Fan Li

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September

By Anna Kovatcheva

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The Boy in the Lake

By Nichols Ford Malick

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Fiction

Estray

By Don Waters

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In the Heart of the Heart of the Empire

By Erin Stalcup

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The Source of Life

By Beth Bosworth

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Another Story She Won’t Believe

By Megan Mayhew Bergman

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The Rising Girl

By Kellie Wells

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Nonfiction

Poetry

The Last Word

By Charles Wright

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Four Dog Nights

By Charles Wright

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Everything Passes, But Is It Time?

By Charles Wright

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Nobody Knows What Is Known

By Mark Strand

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Harmony in the Boudoir

By Mark Strand

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When I Turned a Hundred

By Mark Strand

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Love Silhouetted by Lamplight

By Mark Strand

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The Graves

By Joanna Klink

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The Graves

By Joanna Klink

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Night Blindness

By Joanna Klink

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Whitman’s Pantry

By T. R. Hummer

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Terrorism

By T. R. Hummer

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Text

By T. R. Hummer

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Post-American

By T. R. Hummer

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Hyperbole

By Randall Mann

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Stable

By Randall Mann

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Wind

By Michael Collier

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Rabid head

By Michael Collier

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My Mother of Invention

By Michael Collier

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Fadwa: The Education of the Poet

By Marilyn Hacker

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Dahlia and Fadwa

By Marilyn Hacker

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The Girl Who Lived in the Rain

By David St. John

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In the Mojave

By David St. John

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Late Oracle Sonnet

By David St. John

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To a Young Father

By Sydney Lea

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From “Ruin Island”

By Gretel Ehrlich

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Poem

By Gretel Ehrlich

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