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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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50 Years

Poetry

Agnus Dei

By Philip Levine

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Innocence

By Philip Levine

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Testimony

By Corinne Hales

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The Used Car Lot

By Philip Terman

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Photograph of Oldest Son, Postulant in the Society of Mary, Taken with Proud Parents at Beacon, New York

By Paul Mariani

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Road Kills

By Paul Mariani

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The Happiest Day

By Linda Pastan

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An Old Song

By Linda Pastan

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Primitive Sand

By C. G. Hanzlicek

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Diagnosis

By Eamon Grennan

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Breaking Points

By Eamon Grennan

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Deceptions

By Eamon Grennan

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After a Theme by Vallejo, after a Theme by Justice

By Christopher Buckley

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Good Friday in Amalfi

By Jay Parini

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If Worst Came to Worst

By Claire Bateman

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Night Light

By Jim Daniels

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The Etiquette of Grief

By Maura High

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To the Tune of ‘Danny Boy’

By Maura High

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A Kind of Aubade

By Maura High

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Sinatra

By Robert Wrigley

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First Day of School

By Jonathan Holden

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Pope’s House

By Jonathan Holden

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The Confusion of Planes We Must Wander in Sleep

By Bruce Weigl

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Distance and Design

By Katherine Soniat

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Six Sundays toward a Seventh (21 February-3 April, 1988)

By Sydney Lea

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Burnt Offering

By Albert Goldbarth

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Radio Baseball

By Albert Goldbarth

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Toil,

By Albert Goldbarth

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Radio Sky

By Norman Dubie

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Fiction

How Love Is Lived in Paradise

By Lee K. Abbott

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Conveniences

By Ewing Campbell

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The Twin

By J. R. Jones

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The Handclasp

By Joyce Carol Oates

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I’ve Got You under My Skin

By Melissa Lentricchia

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Nonfiction Prose

Reviews

Keeping the Covenant

By Paul Mariani

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Purloined Sincerity

By Amy Clampitt

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