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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 2016

Vol. XXXVIII, No. 6

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: Not Opening the Gates—Tearing Them Down

By David H. Lynn

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2016 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

Young Poets Introduction

By Natalie Shapero

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Death Uses a Lot of Laundry Detergent

By Alyssa Mazzoli

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Parable

By Carissa Chen

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ƒ(x)

By Annalise Lozier

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The Longer Lyric

Introduction: The Longer Lyric

By David Baker

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Fireworks

By Kevin Prufer

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The Glass Constellation

By Arthur Sze

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Postcolonial Album: 1980

By Annie Kim

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Speculus

By Page Hill Starzinger

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Duets: A Film in Stills

By Philip Metres

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A Century of Meditation

By Dan Beachy-Quick

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Fiction

Declaration of Dependence

By Gordon Lish

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Exit Wound

By Nathan Poole

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The Necrophiliac’s Almanac

By Laura Maylene Walter

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When in Bangkok

By Erika Krouse

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Nonfiction

Cut Down to Size

By Hayley Katzen

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Poetry

Locust Trees in Late May

By Ted Kooser

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In November

By Ted Kooser

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Love Poem

By Chad Davidson

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In the Marina

By W. S. Di Piero

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The Sidewalk Harvest

By W. S. Di Piero

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Assemblage of Ruined Plane Parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi

By Paisley Rekdal

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Black and Copper in a Crush of Flowers

By Carl Phillips

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If You Go Away

By Carl Phillips

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His Master’s Voice

By Carl Phillips

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Maybe So

By Carl Phillips

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Genesis

By Jennifer Luebbers

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The Likes of You

By Danniel Schoonebeek

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