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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 2020

Vol. XLII, No. 3

Fiction

You Can Figure It Out

By Judy Troy

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Black-Woman

By Brianna Johnson

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The Widow

By Justine Champine

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From Which Village Is Your Mother?

By Etkin K.C.

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Baby Killer

By Sanam Mahloudji

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Nature’s Nature 2020

[Introduction]

By David Baker

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Lines along a Wild Place

By Stuart Dischell

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Lines about Mountains

By Stuart Dischell

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Lines about Rivers, Then the Sea

By Stuart Dischell

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Collapse

By Leslie Harrison

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The Things They Know

By Leslie Harrison

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A Blessing

By Leslie Harrison

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How to Live in Southern California

By Shelley Wong

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Ear of Corn

By Phillis Levin

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Two Mule Deer

By Didi Jackson

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Epithalamion Aubade

By Rebecca Morgan Frank

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A Field Guide to Mythological Botany

By Rebecca Morgan Frank

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Locusts or Complaint as Protest

By Hannah VanderHart

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Poem Beginning with a Line from Claudia Rankine

By Hannah VanderHart

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Love as a Succession of Absences

By Hannah VanderHart

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In a Bad Year

By Nicole Stockburger

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Watermelon

By Nicole Stockburger

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From Night Sky

By Joanna Klink

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Giant’s Chair

By Christian Gullette

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Sumac

By Leslie Adrienne Miller

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And the Wild Grapes Do Their Very Bluest

By Leslie Adrienne Miller

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Chester, Illinois

By Devin Johnston

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Iambi IV / 194

By Stephanie Burt

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Monarch

By Carol Muske-Dukes

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Rising Variance as an Early Warning

By Madhur Anand

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Goldhound

By Atsuro Riley

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Permeable

By Elizabeth Bradfield

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When One Known to You Dies, the Rearranging of Space and Time Begins

By Elizabeth Bradfield

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Testimonial

By Paul Guest

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New Year

By Paul Guest

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Out Loud

Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review

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