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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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Poetry

Aunt I

By Alice Fulton

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On the Liberation of Women

By Sherod Santos

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Approaching Middle Age

By Sherod Santos

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The Morning the Doctor

By Sherod Santos

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Sonogram of Padre Island, Texas

By Randall Bondurant Jones

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The Spell of the Leaves

By Larry Levis

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Kind of Blue

By Larry Levis

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“Coney Island Baby”

By Larry Levis

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The Other

By Patricia Goedicke

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The Verdict

By Patricia Goedicke

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The Nap

By Elizabeth Spires

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Mami and Gauguin

By Julia Alvarez

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Making the Mouth

By Stephen Corey

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Gauze Landing

By Jeannine Savard

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The Hospital Room

By Jeannine Savard

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Pilgrimage

By John Witte

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Fifteen

By Richard Frost

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Salt

By Renée Ashley

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They Never Grew Old

By Judith Ortiz Cofer

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The Dogwood Tree

By Charlie Smith

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Stare

By Charlie Smith

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The Dare

By Lollie Groth

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Acupuncture

By Lollie Groth

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The Worry Dolls

By Lollie Groth

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Central Lock-Up

By Eric Trethewey

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A Mouth Full of Hair

By Saskia Hamilton

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How?

By Jack Myers

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The Altar Needlework

By Eleanor Ross Taylor

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How Morning Comes, out of Sleep

By Eleanor Ross Taylor

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The Sunny Day

By Eleanor Ross Taylor

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For Lily

By Suzanne Paola

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The World Rising as a Mirror (sunrise through the window, October, 1988)

By Suzanne Paola

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Learner’s Permit on Skyline Drive

By Ron Smith

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Repairs

By Ron Smith

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Mexico, from the Four Last Letters

By Alberto Ríos

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Indentations in the Sugar

By Alberto Ríos

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Seed Storm

By Jared Carter

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Rural Electrification

By Gregory Donovan

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Domestic Violence

By Lynn Emanuel

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The Planet Krypton

By Lynn Emanuel

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Fiction

Roulette

By Larry Levis

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Tooth

By Gladys Swan

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Begotten Spirits

By Jack Matthews

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The Gift

By Sharon Sheehe Stark

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Big Fish Water

By Debra A. Woodruff

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Steps Out

By Abby Frucht

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Small Talk

By Coleman Barks

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Essays

George Orwell, Pickwickian Radical? An Ambivalent Case

By John Rodden

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Reviews