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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 2013

Vol. XXXV, No. 4

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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2013 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize For Young Writers

Young Poets Introduction

By Natalie Shapero

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Full Blood

By Ian Burnette

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Saung

By Alicia Lai

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Mobile

By Anne Hucks

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Fiction

Slate Mountain

By T. C. Boyle

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Cicadas

By Austin Smith

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Teetering

By Alex Miller

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The Authoress

By Karen Brown

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Today Is the Day

By Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer

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Shame Story

By Meaghan Winter

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The Dance of the Annunciation

By Robert Coover

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Blood Rules

By Jackie Gorman

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Building Cities in the Desert

By Jeffrey Condran

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Nonfiction

Mon frère féminin: Letter to the Amazon

By Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by A’Dora Phillips and Gaëlle Cogan

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Captain Robert Bly, Ortega y Gasset, and the Buddha on the Road

By Mark Gustafson

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Poetry

take a deer

By Roger Desy

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The Diaper Pin

By Ted Genoways

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Very Far Back in This Life

By Brenda Hillman

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Letter to the Soul

By Melissa Kwasny

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Prayer for Bread

By Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Michael Thomas Taren and Tomaž Šalamun

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Clear Water Renga

By Brian Teare

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A Duet in Mud Season

By Clare Rossini

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For Love

By Gail Hanlon

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Future Perfect

By Gail Hanlon

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Elegy in Which I Refuse to Turn Away

By Corey Van Landingham

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Origin Myth

By Jeremiah Childers

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In a Landscape: XII

By John Gallaher

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Maybe You’ll Be Young and Pretty Forever

By Alex Lemon

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Infidelity

By Brian Tierney

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First Song

By Lee Sharkey

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A Patient Word

By Lee Sharkey

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The Mockingbird

By Lindsay Turner

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Late Afternoon into Evening

By Lindsay Turner

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Defeat

By Janice N. Harrington

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