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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 2017

Vol. XXXIX, No. 5

Editor’s Notes

Editor’s Notes

By David H. Lynn

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The Hybrid Lyric

Introduction: The Hybrid Lyric

By David Baker

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Unnatural Essay

By Meghan O’Rourke

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The Storm

By Michael Collier

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In a Landscape of Perpetual Springtime

By Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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[I like it when]

By Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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[If I wait long enough]

By Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Fiction

Surtsey

By T. C. Boyle

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The Long-Legged Girl

By Joyce Carol Oates

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Kindness

By Marian Crotty

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We Not Die

By Karl Taro Greenfeld

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Nonfiction

Disembodied

By Emily Withnall

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Poetry

Hum

By Cintia Santana

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Scales

By Cintia Santana

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Self-Portrait at Eighteen Seen at Thirty

By Kyle McCord

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Welcome to the Springs

By Philip Schultz

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