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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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May/June 2016

Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: Literature and the Anthropocene

By David H. Lynn

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Nature’s Nature

Introduction: Nature’s Nature

By David Baker

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Prehistoric

By T. R. Hummer

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In a Small Park with Bench, Jacaranda, and Bird’s Skull

By T. R. Hummer

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Dove

By T. R. Hummer

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The Late Ash Trees

By Ann Townsend

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The Mind Is Its Own Place

By Ann Townsend

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A Cache of Photos of the Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

By David Wojahn

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For the Return of the Bee

By Laura Kasischke

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On the Nature of Things

By Laura Kasischke

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[Wikipedia, or the Late Style of Orpheus]

By Sam Taylor

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[Channels]

By Sam Taylor

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[The Afterlife]

By Sam Taylor

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[You’d Have to Be a Fool]

By Sam Taylor

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Personal Climate Change

By Philip Metres

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Plasticity

By Matthew Olzmann

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Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed into a Bar of Chocolate

By Matthew Olzmann

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Return to Sender

By Matthew Olzmann

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Séance

By Melissa Ginsburg

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Emergency

By Melissa Ginsburg

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To Abuelita Nelly

By Javier Zamora

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Aftermath

By Javier Zamora

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Brilliance, a Valentine

By Kimiko Hahn

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II

By Kimiko Hahn

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III

By Kimiko Hahn

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IV

By Kimiko Hahn

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V

By Kimiko Hahn

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VI

By Kimiko Hahn

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VII

By Kimiko Hahn

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Traditional Anger (in the Sonoran Desert)

By Fady Joudah

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It Moves

By Marianne Boruch

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We’re Not Insects

By Marianne Boruch

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Understory

By William Wright

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Repository

By Tyler Mills

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Vanities

By Melissa Tuckey

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Magnitude

By Melissa Tuckey

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Our Ice

By Lee Upton

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From “Paroxysm”

By Justin Phillip Reed

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Listen

By Benjamin Landry

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Myotis lucifugus

By Benjamin Landry

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Witness

By Benjamin Landry

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Shepherd’s Purse

By Marco Wilkinson

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Fiction

We Unlovely, Unloved

By Gregory Spatz

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Guadalajara

By Catherine Brady

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Three Insurrections

By Rion Amilcar Scott

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Nonfiction

Tears, Silence, Song

By Rebecca McClanahan

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