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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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Mar/Apr 2018

Vol. XL, No. 2

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: The Exciting Program of “KR”‘s Summer Programs

By David H. Lynn

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Drama

Blue Love

By David Butler

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Fiction

Chickens, 2019

By Claire Boyles

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Dirt Man

By Jamie Quatro

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Parade of Homes

By Marvin Shackelford

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Nonfiction

Forest of Feelings

By Edan Lepucki

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Poetry

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin

By Terrance Hayes

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Not an Elegy for Erik Rhodes

By Tommye Blount

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Icarus Does the Dishes

By Tommye Blount

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Pale Colors in a Tall Field

By Carl Phillips

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The Same in Sun as It Felt in Shadow

By Carl Phillips

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So the Edge of the World

By Carl Phillips

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I Was Thinking

By Stephen Dunn

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Walking Backwards

By John Koethe

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Thinking about Death

By John Koethe

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Sacrament

By Rebecca McClanahan

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Ransom

By Philip Schaefer

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Museum Footage, 1945

By Marianne Boruch

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Divers on Film

By Marianne Boruch

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Review

“Within Stone / the Mind Writhes”

By Jonathan Farmer

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