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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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Nonfiction

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Entrechat

By Edith Milton

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In the Yucatán

By Patricia E. Powers

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Carmen Miranda’s Navel

By P.B. Parris

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Talus

By Ernest J. Finney

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A Poem

Poetry

1955

By Louie Skipper

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From Deaths That Travel with the Weather

By Louie Skipper

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A Certain Meanness of Culture

By Kay Ryan

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The Tables Freed

By Kay Ryan

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Seeing Cooch

By Wesley McNair

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What It Is

By Wesley McNair

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The Name

By Wesley McNair

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Unable to Refuse

By Richard Jackson

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What to Listen For

By Richard Jackson

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Two Travelers, Maroon Lake, Colorado

By Robert Hill Long

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Black Oak

By Robert Hill Long

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The Power to Die

By Robert Hill Long

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Personally Speaking

Teaching Homer in the Shadow of Troy

By Galbraith M. Crump

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Book Reviews