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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 2010

Vol. XXXII, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

[Editor’s Notes]: W.S. Merwin: Then and Now

By David H. Lynn

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2010 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

Young Poets Introduction

By Editors

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Han

By Anna Faison

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Nkoaranga

By Emma Broder

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Clutch

By Megan Gallagher

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Fiction

Drama

Another Life

By Karen Malpede

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Review

Come Back: The Work and Life of Storm Jameson

By Rod Mengham

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Homecoming

By W. S. Merwin

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From the Gray Legends

By W. S. Merwin

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Before Midsummer above the River Again

By W. S. Merwin

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By the Front Door

By W. S. Merwin

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The Need for Dreaming

By Carl Phillips

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The Heat of the Sun

By Carl Phillips

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In This World to Be Lost

By Carl Phillips

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Sky Coming Forward

By Carl Phillips

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Tree House

By Nina Lindsay

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Ficus Carica

By James Longenbach

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Lead Penny: Early Lessons in Economics

By Christopher Buckley

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Gift

By Daneen Wardrop

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Draw into your room the

By Daneen Wardrop

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The Hive

By Paula Bohince

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Extinguished by a Kiss

By Timothy Liu

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All Trains Are Going Local

By Timothy Liu

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The Walter Reed Sonnets

By Amit Majmudar

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A Short Outing That Ended Well

By David Avidan, translated by Tsipi Keller

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Country Life

By Amy Beeder

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Wife

By Alison Stine

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Stepmother

By Alison Stine

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Pain Can Warn Us of Danger

By John Gallaher

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The Tourist

By John Gallaher

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The Anatomy of May

By Clare Rossini

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Biology Lab, St. Joseph’s School for Girls

By Clare Rossini

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A Calculation Based on Figures in a Scene

By Mary Jo Bang

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To Write a History

By Mary Jo Bang

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Can the Individual Experience Tragic Consequences?

By Mary Jo Bang

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There She Was

By Mary Jo Bang

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Name

By Klena Karina Byrne

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