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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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Fall 2008

Vol. XXX, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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The Casual Reader

By André Bernard

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2008 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

Young Writers Introduction

By David Baker

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Terra Incognita

By Molly Brown

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(why) can’t i hear you anymore?

By Weihui Lu

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self-portrait

By Samantha Berstler

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Fiction

The First to Look Away

By George Singleton

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Sandlot

By W. David Hall

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Carryout

By Gimbiya Kettering

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Diablo Baby

By Githa Hariharan

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The Torturer’s Wife

By Thomas Glave

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Rêve parisien (Parisian Dream)

By Charles Baudelaire, translated by John Kinsella

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Adorable Siren, Do You Love the Damned?

By Anna Journey

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Mourning Doves

By Stephen Dobyns

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Nickel

By Stephen Dobyns

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My Weight in Ants

By Nance Van Winckel

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You Take It from Here

By Nance Van Winckel

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Yet Not Consumed

By Mary Szybist

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V Is the Diver

By Mary Jo Bang

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The Wake Was a Line and We Watched

By Mary Jo Bang

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The Distinguished Thing

By John Koethe

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Zozo-ji

By Dana Levin

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Plea to Birds

By Leslie Shipman

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Girl on a Hill

By Leslie Shipman

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My Mother’s Abscess

By David Bottoms

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