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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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Science, Science Fiction and Poetry

The Future

By Albert Goldbarth

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Odex: Scenarios for a Functionoid

By Melissa Monroe

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R.M.I. 3

By Melissa Monroe

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Pandora

By Melissa Monroe

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Nurse Waking

By Maryjo Mahoney

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Lecture to Third-Year Medical Students

By Marc J. Straus

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AIDS and the Poetry of Healing

By Rafael Campo

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Allegory

By Rafael Campo

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The Distant Moon

By Rafael Campo

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DNA, or, the Legend of My Grandfather

By Rafael Campo

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Technology and Medicine

By Rafael Campo

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The Various Reasons of Light

By Renée Ashley

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Why We Care about Quarks

By Gary Fincke

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Confessions of a Metamorph

By Judith Moffett

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True North/1: The Lover Wishes to Be of Unending

By Stephanie Strickland

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True North/2: Our Home the Earth

By Stephanie Strickland

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True North/3: It’s Hard

By Stephanie Strickland

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True North/4: Strategem-Strategem

By Stephanie Strickland

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True North/5: It’s Easy

By Stephanie Strickland

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A New Notice of Motion: The Lover Waiting

By Pattiann Rogers

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Considering All the Moving Light, All the Stationary Darkness

By Pattiann Rogers

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Death Vision

By Pattiann Rogers

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Poetry

The Camps

By Hayden Carruth

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Surrealism

By Hayden Carruth

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Waterloo

By Hayden Carruth

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Ecstasy

By Hayden Carruth

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When Living Was a Labor Camp Called Montgomery

By Diana Garcia

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Las Rubias

By Diana Garcia

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La Curandera

By Diana Garcia

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Other Marías

By Diana Garcia

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Anima

By Walter Griffin

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Then We Found the River

By Gabrielle Glancy

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After Three Days

By Josephine Jacobsen

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The Blue-Eyed Exterminator

By Josephine Jacobsen

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Softly

By Josephine Jacobsen

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Letter 2

By Meir Wieseltier, translated by Shirley Kaufman

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Letter 3

By Meir Wieseltier, translated by Shirley Kaufman

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Officially Lent

By Patricia Spears Jones

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Sly and the Family Stone under the Big Tit, Atlanta, 1973

By Patricia Spears Jones

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‘Cuda

By David Moolten

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Birthdays

By Peyton Houston

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The Box of the Special Silence

By Peyton Houston

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Marathon

By Cyrus Cassells

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A Small Moment

By Cornelius Eady

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Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968

By Cornelius Eady

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Conan Doyle’s Copper Beeches

By Stanley Plumly

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White Oaks Ascending

By Stanley Plumly

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The Art of Poetry

By Stanley Plumly

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Oolong

By Arthur Sze

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The Angel and I Resolute the Homo

By Tiffany M. Higgins

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Fiction

Fresh Air

By Carol Ascher

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Interstate 3, Paragraph 1

By Stephen Dixon

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Bummers

By Maxine Kumin

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Percipients Known and Strange

By Lou Robinson

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From Atlantis: Model 1924

By Samuel R. Delany

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Drama

Sex with the Man on the Moon

By Rane Arroyo

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Essays

Interview

The Circle of Confusion: A Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith

By Barbara Lewis and Anna Deavere Smith

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Review

The Tension between Memory and Forgetting in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa

By Toi Derricote

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