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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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Fiction

Howard an Monroe

By Robert Hiles

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Hundred Year War

By W. D. Wetherell

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Normal Experience

By H. E. Francis

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Nonfiction

Poetry

For Don, Who Slept through the War

By Wyatt Prunty

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The Blue Umbrella

By Wyatt Prunty

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Ghosts

By Wesley McNair

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The Hand

By Wesley McNair

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Living on Hardscrabble

By Walter McDonald

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When It Seemed Easy

By Walter McDonald

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Dividing Ridge

By James Baker Hall

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The Window

By James Baker Hall

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In Irishtown

By Ben Howard

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No Parking

By Ben Howard

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Scheherazade

By Judith Berke

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Family Tree

By Judith Berke

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A Postcard

By George Bilgere

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Major Bennett

By George Bilgere

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The Children

By George Bilgere

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Book Reviews

Reading Sven Birkerts

By Jay Parini

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Formal Allegiances: Selected Poems x 6

By Dave Smith

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Alexandrian Circles

By John Chioles

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