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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 2018

Vol. XL, No. 5

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes: A Poet of Many Dimensions

By David H. Lynn

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Fiction

May It Come Easy

By Joshua Idaszak

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The White Spot

By Jonathan Blum

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The American President’s Visit

By Dariel Suarez

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Excerpts from “The Gallows”

By Haïm Hazaz, translated by Atar Hadari

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Interview

Below the Real World

By William Walsh and Laurence Lieberman

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Nonfiction

I Love You. You Have Nice Hands

By Lesley Jenike

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Poetry

Canary

By Rita Dove

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Vow of Extinction

By Mary Ruefle

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Resin

By Mary Ruefle

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Evidence of Nocturne

By Yuki Tanaka

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Ghost in Waiting

By Yuki Tanaka

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What New Name

By Kazim Ali

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Rewriting

By Chet’la Sebree

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Dispatch from the Dark Continent

By Chet’la Sebree

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Ab Hinc

By Chet’la Sebree

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Origin Story

By Karin Gottshall

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Ghazal of the Polar Vortex

By Brian Brodeur

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I-80

By Roger Desy

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Venice Elegy | 2 | Rot Poem

By Yang Lian, translated by Brian Holton

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The Memory of Teeth

By Brian Michael Murphy

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Welshman and Muscovite

By Laurence Lieberman

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