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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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Poetry

Essay on Rime: Confusion of Personal Systems (From Part III)

By Karl Shapiro

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A Ghost, a Real Ghost

By Randall Jarrell

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Losses

By Randall Jarrell

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The Germans Are Lunatics

By Randall Jarrell

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Soldier Sewing on Chevrons

By Samuel French Morse

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Another Soldier,… From the Aleutians

By Samuel French Morse

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Home Abroad

By Reed Whittemore

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On the Death of Some One Close

By Reed Whittemore

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This Is It

By Reed Whittemore

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Hester Prynne

By Reed Whittemore

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Elegy for a Child on Easter Morning

By John Edward Hardy

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Five Poems

By Alice Ingham

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State of Soul in Grand Rapids

By David Cornel DeJong

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Sentimental Theme

By David Cornel DeJong

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Fiction

Nonfiction

Communications

To Whom It May Concern

By H.L. Geisse

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The Conformity of Leonov

By Blanche Udren

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Reply

By Marjorie Farber

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The Views of Mr. Symons

By Eric Russell Bentley

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Book Reviews