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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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Contemporary American Poetry

The Reedbeds of the Hackensack

By Amy Clampitt

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Rain at Bellagio

By Amy Clampitt

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Olympia

By Amy Clampitt

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Imago

By Amy Clampitt

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A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times

By Jordan Smith

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Ode to Desire

By Philip Schultz

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For My Mother

By Philip Schultz

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A Guide for the Perplexed

By Philip Schultz

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Memorial Meetings

By Michael S. Harper

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Horse-Trading

By Michael S. Harper

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For My Father

By Michael S. Harper

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In Old San Juan

By Irving Feldman

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A Crone’s Tale

By Irving Feldman

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Grape Sherbet

By Rita Dove

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One of Solomon’s Concubines, Dying, Exults in Her Virginity

By Andrew Hudgins

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Bolus

By Andrew Hudgins

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Our Journey to Ghent

By Anne Halley

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To My Younger Self

By Frederick Feirstein

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The Abortion

By Frederick Feirstein

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The Eyes

By Frederick Feirstein

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To V V: On Our Translation of the Kossovo Fragments

By John Matthias

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From the Kossovo Fragments: The Mother of the Jugovici

Translated by John Matthias and Vladeta Vuckovic

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The Dissolution of the Rainbow

By Emily Grosholz

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Marathon

By Emily Grosholz

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From the Space Sonnets

By Dick Allen

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Caesarion

By James Merrill

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Nonfiction

Fiction

How It Had to Be

By Jewell Smith

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Margaret of the Imperfections

By Lynda Sexson

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