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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 2018

Vol. XL, No. 3

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: Literary Activism and the World We Live In

By David H. Lynn

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Nature’s (Human) Nature

Introduction: Nature’s (Human) Nature

By David Baker

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Garden

By Bruce Smith

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Nine Things I Learned about Nature on My Skateboard

By Charley Mull

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In Everything a Little Remains

By Dilruba Ahmed

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On Salgado’s “Genesis” / On Disturbance or

By Jorie Graham

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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin

By Terrance Hayes

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Two Autumns, Saint Louis

By Dana Levin

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Morbid Florilegia (Part I)

By Sylvia Legris

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Morbid Florilegia (Part II)

By Sylvia Legris

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Decline in the Adoration of Jack-in-the-Pulpits

By Joanne Dominique Dwyer

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Polluted

By Alice Notley

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The Cure

By Alice Notley

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Parable of the Groundhog

By Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Parable of a Brief Ceasefire

By Monica Sok

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Windfall

By Monica Sok

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From “July”

By Kathleen Ossip

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A Grove of Trees

By Marsha de la O

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The Understory

By Marsha de la O

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Habitat Exchange

By Tess Taylor

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Apocalypto w/ Aquaria

By Tess Taylor

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Song with Sequoia and Australopithecus

By Tess Taylor

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Forest

By Liz Countryman

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Interior Landscape: 6:00 a.m.

By Jill Bialosky

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Hawk Watching

By Paul Lindholdt

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Fiction

Aguacero

By Patricia Engel

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The Minister

By Erin O. White

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Nonfiction

You Didn’t Hear It from Me

By Debra Nystrom

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