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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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Nov/Dec 2015

Vol. XXXVII, No. 6

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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Walking with Poets

Introduction: Walking with Poets

By David Baker

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from “Henry David Thoreau: ‘Walking’”

By Cole Swensen

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William Blake

By Cole Swensen

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Thomas De Quincey

By Cole Swensen

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Gérard de Nerval

By Cole Swensen

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The Juggler of Notre-Dame

By David Kirby

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Unexpected Oracles

By Lloyd Schwartz

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Early Nineteenth-Century English Poetry Walks

By Stanley Plumly

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Fiction

The Five-Pound Burrito

By T. C. Boyle

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Sorry

By Judy Troy

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This Is What We Could Have Been

By Roohi Choudhry

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Isography

By Angela Pelster

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Conservator’s Statement

By Robert Wrigley

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Geometry of Echo

By Christopher Kondrich

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Sodoma, Monks at Table with St. Benedict (Monte Oliveto Maggiore)

By Sandra M. Gilbert

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The First Year

By Wayne Miller

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Requiem 1935-1940

By Anna Akhmatova, translated by Hoyt Jacobs and Olga Ardova

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Colony Collapse

By John Witte

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After a Lynching Postcard, with the Lynchings Chemically Removed

By Ocean Vuong

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Review

“Tell Me Why I Shouldn’t Kill You”: On Jehanne Dubrow’s “The Arranged Marriage”

By Natalie Shapero

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