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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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William Carlos Williams: Two Appreciations

Fiction

Two Mortuary Sermons

By Richard Gibson

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The Mothers

By Priscilla Heath

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The Fugue of the Fig Tree

By Stanley Sultan

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The Fabulous Twenty-Dollar Bill

By Delmore Schwartz

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Nonfiction

Poetry

The Circle

By Douglas Nichols

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The Island Queen

By Douglas Nichols

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Rumor

By Josephine Miles

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The Lady with the Heron

By W. S. Merwin

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The Girl of the Golden West

By Douglas Nichols

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Career

By Josephine Miles

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Song of the Mad Menagerie

By William Merwin

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To an Administrator

By Josephine Miles

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Graham-Paige

By Josephine Miles

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Book Reviews

A Chinese Ars Poetica

By Archibald MacLeish

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The Critical Angel

By Bernard Heringman

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The Business of “Wonder”

By Arnold Stein

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A Plea for the Essay

By R. P. Blackmur

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