Login SUBSCRIBE

Read
- Current Issue
  The newest issue of The Kenyon Review features exciting new work from T.C. Boyle, Victoria Chang, Patrick Rosal, and Ross White. This issue also spotlights Jessie Cato’s Nonfiction Contest-winning essay, an Invisible Cities folio, and book reviews from Claire Oleson and Daniel Spielberger.
  - View the Latest Issue
- The Archive
Workshops
- - - Workshops
      Adult Writers Workshop
      
      Young Writers Workshop
  - - Fellowships
      Kenyon Review Fellowship
      
      Emerging Writers Fellowship
Support US
- - - Donate
      Make a tax-deductible gift to The Kenyon Review today.
      
      Donate Now
    - Subscribe
      Print-plus-digital subscriptions include a full year of the print journal (four issues) and access to The Kenyon Review digital archive.
      
      Learn More
  - - The Gala
      Join us for an evening of community, conversation, and celebration to sustain the future of literary arts.
      
      Info and Tickets
    - Advertise
      Our readers are smart, savvy, and have purchasing power.
      
      Advertise With Us
About Us
News
Submissions
Login
SUBSCRIBE

The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

Read

May/June 2022

Vol. XLIV, No. 3

Drama

Silent Billy

By Sherod Santos

Read More

Fiction

Animal Days

By Renée Branum

Read More
Happy Is a Doing Word

By Arinze Ifeakandu

Read More
The Tale of the Black Worry Beads

By Nolan Capps

Read More
Burned Location

By Calvin Gimpelevich

Read More
The Arm of the Lord

By David Crouse

Read More

Why We Chose It

Why We Chose It: “Burned Location” by Calvin Gimpelevich

By Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

Read More

Nature’s Nature

Nature’s Nature

By David Baker

Read More
Pestilence

By Maya C. Popa

Read More
Bearded Iris

By Linda Gregerson

Read More
You Asked About Longing

By D. S. Waldman

Read More
Bodies in the Air

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Read More
望鄉 / Home-Gazing

By Paisley Rekdal

Read More
埋 / Bury

By Paisley Rekdal

Read More
::[untitled]::

By Brenda Hillman

Read More
[untitled tableau]

By Brenda Hillman

Read More
Escape & Energy

By Brenda Hillman

Read More
Escape & Logic

By Brenda Hillman

Read More
Proper Use of Knots in the Wild

By Grant Clauser

Read More
The Proper Application of First Aid in the Wild

By Grant Clauser

Read More
You Go, Me Stay, Two Autumns

By Marilyn Chin

Read More
Elegy

By Elizabeth Arnold

Read More
Mercy Me

By Corrie Williamson

Read More
You’re Hoarding Guns, I’m Growing Herbs

By Corrie Williamson

Read More
O Come & Let Me Tell Thee How Wholly I Am Thine

By Corrie Williamson

Read More
The Well, Rural Route 1 Box 43

By Jesse Nathan

Read More
The Kingdom

By Strummer Hoffston

Read More
nature studies

By Evie Shockley

Read More
the lost track of time

By Evie Shockley

Read More
Boulders and Bedrock

By Tricia Knoll

Read More
Inscription

By Rosanna Warren

Read More
Soseki’s Shrine

By Rosanna Warren

Read More

Nonfiction

Gladioli

By Melissa Seley

Read More

Poetry

We Sang Every Morning After Breakfast

By Kenyon Review

Read More

Out Loud

Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review

Read More