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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

Mother Marie Therese

By Robert Lowell

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Epithalamion

By Stephen Spender

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Two Deliberate Exercises

By William Carlos Williams

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Fountain and Unicorn

By Babette Deutsch

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Fiction

Our School

By Paul Goodman

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Nonfiction

A Communication

A Letter to a Frenchman

By Philip Blair Rice

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Book Reviews

Some Bankrupt Treasuries

By Stanley Edgar Hyman

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The Poets

By Howard Nemerov

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The Legend of the Lion

By Lionel Trilling

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History and Literature

By Richard G. Salomon

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Tiger Lilies

By Marguerite Young

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The Fate of the Novel

By Leslie A. Fiedler

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