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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 2020

Vol. XLII, No. 5

2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

All of This Is True

[Introduction]

By Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Mourning Sex

By Starr Davis

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Something about Failure

By Sean Thomas Dougherty

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Golden Corral

By Sean Thomas Dougherty

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Things to Do in the Belly of a Whale

By April Gibson

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{#289-128} Property of the State

By Randall Horton

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{#289-128} Property of the State

By Randall Horton

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{#289-128} Property of the State

By Randall Horton

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{#289-128} Property of the State

By Randall Horton

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May

By Jennifer Funk

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The Goddess of Scars

By Teri Ellen Cross Davis

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Humidity

By Tara Betts

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‘what’s that fuss?’ 1979 (for donnell)

By brian g. gilmore

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Bagging Mallards

By Luke Johnson

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Michael Moses Ward Has Drowned

By francine j. harris

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o aberto / the open

By Alírio Karina

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Sandra Bland, Texas

By Fady Joudah

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Reading Augustine on the Elliptical

By Christian Wiman

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Origin of the Mapping System

By Sara Ryan

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I Have Masturbated Three Days in a Row and Can’t Stop Crying

By Sara Ryan

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Which Was to Come

By Roger Reeves

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Fragment 107

By Roger Reeves

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Fiction

The Fourth Child

By Samuel Jensen

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Bad Faith

By Dina Nayeri

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The Simple Ones

By Matthue Roth

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The Mason Jar

By Marianne Shaneen

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Out Loud

Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review

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