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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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Sept/Oct 2015

Vol. XXXVII, No. 5

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

Fiction

Fleuve Bleu

By Joyce Carol Oates

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After Lola

By Linda Woolford

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The Sacred Gifts of Cows and Cheetahs

By Keya Mitra

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Nonfiction

Mēl

By Amy Wright

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Devotion and Witness

By David Wojahn

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Poetry

How to Spend All One’s Blue

By Kazim Ali

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Son of History

By Kazim Ali

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[& heard a humming, like the]

By Brenda Hillman

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On a Day, in the World

By Brenda Hillman

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Palæstinae quatuor facies [1720]

By Philip Metres

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Kufr / Yar, Babi / Qassim

By Philip Metres

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By Philip Metres

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The Body Is Necessary But Not Sufficient

By Jeffrey Skinner

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Love Letter to Nike Alighting on a Warship

By Corey Van Landingham

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The President Took No Questions

By Corey Van Landingham

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hamartia

By Beth Bachmann

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surface

By Beth Bachmann

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location (echo)

By Beth Bachmann

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The Way of the Red Flag

By John Kinsella

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Grey Heron at Churchill Moat

By John Kinsella

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Narcissus Himself

By Dave Lucas

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Widows and Brides

By Kathy Fagan

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Structural Engineering

By Kathy Fagan

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Nkisi Nkondi

By Jennifer Militello

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Oxymoronic Love

By Jennifer Militello

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