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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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50 Years

Poetry

The Lost Kings of Maryville

By James Solheim

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Bill the Landlord Learns to Fly

By Cynthia Huntington

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Breaking

By Cynthia Huntington

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Passing through Hometown

By Cynthia Huntington

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A Language

By Angela Ball

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Audubon’s Flute

By Robert Morgan

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Land Suture

By Robert Morgan

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Podington Air Field

By Robert Morgan

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Shadow Matter

By Robert Morgan

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Playing by Ear

By Wyatt Prunty

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Swingset

By Lynne McMahon

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The Wild Horses

By Wyatt Prunty

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Personal History

By Lynne McMahon

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With Others

By Wyatt Prunty

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Hunger

By Stephen Corey

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Hopkins and Whitman

By Lynne McMahon

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The City Speaks

By Dixie Lane

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A Blasphemy

By Rodney Jones

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Meeting Bobby

By Rodney Jones

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Meditation at Home

By Rodney Jones

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Serious Partying

By Rodney Jones

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Dangers

By Rodney Jones

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Ideal

By Hayden Carruth

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Cardinals in Spring

By David Baker

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The Canoe in the Basement

By Dave Smith

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Before Ground Roses

By Dave Smith

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Early One Morning in the Teatro Romano

By Charles Wright

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Sunday at Home at the Beginning of Winter

By Charles Wright

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Fiction

The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas

By Reginald McKnight

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A Little Piece of Star

By Barbara Croft

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A Call from Jersey

By P. F. Kluge

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At the Back Door

By Robert Shapard

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In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond

By Devon Jersild

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Inside the Fire

By Salvatore La Puma

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Nonfiction Prose

Block Prose Paragraphs

From “The Effigies”

By Robert Hill Long

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Reviews