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Editor's NotesEditor's Notes

• Editor’s Notes

In MemoriumIn Memorium

• Galbraith M. Crump
  In Memorium

Kenyon Review ClassicsKenyon Review Classics

• R. T. S. Lowell
  Mary Winslow
• Richard Tillinghast
  Revaluation: Early Poems of Robert Lowell
• R. T. S. Lowell
  The First Sunday in Lent
• R. T. S. Lowell
  The Dandelion Girls
• R. T. S. Lowell
  Mr. Edwards and the Spider
• R. T. S. Lowell
  At a Bible House
• R. T. S. Lowell
  The Cities’ Summer Death
• R. T. S. Lowell
  Satan’s Confession
• R. T. S. Lowell
  Winter in Dunbarton

Translation: Three Eastern Authors: Five PoemsTranslation: Three Eastern Authors: Five Poems

• Shen Chou
  Inscribed on a Painting
• Bada Shanren
  Globefish
• Bada Shanren
  Bright Light and Cloud Shadows
• Bada Shanren
  Inscription for a Painting
• Li Shang-yin
  Untitled (II)

FictionFiction

• Chaim Potok
  Isabel
• Mark Jacobs
  Dove of the Back Streets
• Kathleen Hill
  Coming Round
• Julian Anderson
  The Houses of Double Women
• Jane McCafferty
  One Heart

NonfictionNonfiction

• Anthony Winner
  Authenticity, Authority, and Application: Buzzati, Kundera, Gordimer

DramaDrama

• Philip Brooks
  Physical History

PoetryPoetry

• Arthur Smith
  Lights from a Pier
• Arthur Smith
  To an Early Greek Philosopher
• Arthur Smith
  Its Difficult Name
• Bruce Smith
  Drivin’ and Cryin’
• Rebecca McClanahan
  Communion
• David J. Rothman
  Breaking the Jug
• Barbara Hamby
  Thinking of Galileo
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Hydraulics
• Cathy Song
  The Sky-Blue Dress
• Norman Williams
  An Invocation from the Hot Noon of Central Ohio
• Cathy Song
  Stink Eye
• Kathleen Wakefield
  Grace Notes
• Sophocles
  Three Poems from Antigone: Sons and Fathers
• Patricia Hooper
  Consultation
• Ouyang Jianghe
  A Fabricated Notebook about the Market Economy: Excerpts
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
  Notes for My Daughter on the Morning of a New Year
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Pan
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Chastity Belt
• Donald Revell
  From “Arcady”
• Arthur Smith
  Roman Time
• Cathy Song
  The Slow Upheaval of Mist
• Jan Richman
  Shoo Fly Shoo
• Jean Valentine
  They Lead Me
• Barbara Hamby
  Ode to Public Bathrooms
• Kelly Cherry
  Three Poems from Antigone: Praise and Plea
• Leon Stokesbury
  Even Now
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Body of a Woman (Cadavere di Donna)
• Amy Gerstler
  Medicine
• Norman Williams
  Now, until, Because
• Sophocles
  Three Poems from Antigone: The Failed Sacrifice
• Jean Valentine
  The Welsh Poet
• Jan Richman
  Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  The Congo Snake
• Arthur Smith
  At the Grave of an Ancient Poet
• Bruce Smith
  February Sky
• Jan Richman
  Out of Pocket
• Kathleen Wakefield
  The Swing
• Charlie Smith
  The World as Will and Representation
• Charlie Smith
  Day Twenty-Four Seven
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  The Lure

Book ReviewsBook Reviews

• Hardie St. Martin
  The Return of the Galleons
• Rachel Hadas
  Four Voices Thinking out Loud
• Don Bogen
  Isn’t It Romantic?
• David Wojahn
  Survivalist Selves
• Michael Wood
  This, Here, Now

InterviewInterview

• William Baer
  Still Negotiating with the Images: An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa

Editor's NotesEditor's Notes

• David H. Lynn
  Editor’s Notes

Kenyon Review ClassicsKenyon Review Classics

• James Merrill
  The Drowning Poet
• Rachel Hadas
  James Merrill’s Early Work: A Revaluation
• James Merrill
  Dream and Waking
• James Merrill
  Cloud Country
• James Merrill
  Transfigured Bird
• James Merrill
  Entrance from Sleep
• James Merrill
  Dancing, Joyously Dancing

FictionFiction

• Alice Hoffman
  How to Talk to the Dead
• Linda Bamber
  The Gross Clinic
• Steven Millhauser
  Kaspar Hauser Speaks
• Michael Lowenthal
  Do Us Part

NonfictionNonfiction

• Michael Wood
  Hidden in the Distance: Reading Calvino Reading
• Amitav Ghosh
  The March of the Novel through History: The Testimony of My Grandfather’s Bookcase
• Daisy Eunyoung Rhau
  On Silence

InterviewInterview

• John Rodden
  A Harsh Day’s Light: An Interview with Marge Piercy
• Kazuo Ishiguro
  Rooted in a Small Space: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro

PoetryPoetry

• Marge Piercy
  Planting Peas in March Mud
• Linda Pastan
  43rd Anniversary
• Sydney Lea
  Inviting the Moose: A Vision
• John Witte
  Choir Invisible
• James McMichael
  Posited
• Rodney Jones
  Not See Again
• Lisa Russ Spaar
  April
• Andrew Hudgins
  Poem
• Kevin Young
  Oleo
• Stephen Corey
  Measures
• Deborah Digges
  The Gardens Offered in Place of My Mother’s Dying
• Martha Zweig
  Hypnagogic
• John Witte
  Porcupine
• Deborah Digges
  Guillotine Windows
• Bruce Beasley
  The White Children of Macon
• Colette Inez
  Digging in Winter
• John Kinsella
  An Aerial View of Wheatlands in Mid-Autumn
• Kevin Young
  Brothers Sausage
• Andrew Hudgins
  The Lake’s Ancient Song
• Michael McFee
  Goodyear
• Red Hawk
  2 Ways of Crossing the Creek
• Andrew Hudgins
  Hail
• Sandra Meek
  Evolution
• Marge Piercy
  Flying over the Nebraska of My Life
• James McMichael
  Above the Red Deep-Water Clays
• Robert Dana
  Dancing
• Rodney Jones
  Elegy for the Southern Drawl
• Linda Pastan
  The Death of the Bee
• Colette Inez
  Polonaise
• Michael McFee
  Vita Brevis
• Martha Zweig
  Sick Day
• David Citino
  Walking the Mall
• Deborah Digges
  Pomegranate
• Kevin Young
  Shrine outside Basquiat’s Studio September 1988
• Kevin Young
  Revised Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta
• Deborah Digges
  Lilacs
• Billy Collins
  The Night House
• Kevin Young
  Riddle Me This Batman
• Jean Arasanayagam
  Chicago

Book ReviewsBook Reviews

• Jay Rogoff
  Heard and Unheard Melodies

Editor's NotesEditor's Notes

• David H. Lynn
  Editor’s Notes

Kenyon Review ClassicsKenyon Review Classics

• Flannery O’Connor
  The Artificial Nigger
• Joyce Carol Oates
  The Action of Mercy

FictionFiction

• Josip Novakovich
  Bruno
• Mike Lohre
  What We Are Best At
• Randy F. Nelson
  Here’s a Shot of Us at the Grand Canyon
• Cary Holladay
  Heaven

NonfictionNonfiction

• Gordon Hutner
  The “Good Reader” and the Bourgeois Critic
• Mira Bartók-Baratta
  The Oracle Bone
• Mark Rudman
  The Milosz File

DramaDrama

• Julie Jensen
  Deer on a Wire from “Last Lists of My Mad Mother”, a Full-Length Play

PoetryPoetry

• Ellen Cantor
  Flesh and Blood
• Campbell McGrath
  Port Olry
• Wislawa Szymborska
  To the Heart on Sunday
• Ann Townsend
  Dime Store Erotics
• Thylias Moss
  Chariots
• Robert Morgan
  Atomic Age
• Deanne Lundin
  Poppies
• Bino A. Realuyo
  A Night in Dubai
• Philip Booth
  An Old Airman Who Knows Who He Was
• Olena Kalytiak Davis
  As Empty as a Church, I Believe I Am a Small Testament to the Failing Relationship between Space and Light
• Robert Morgan
  Fire Handling
• Robert Wrigley
  Conjure
• Campbell McGrath
  Capitalist Poem #42
• George Keithley
  Chiaroscuro
• Jesse Lee Kercheval
  Last Poem
• Campbell McGrath
  A Dove
• Thylias Moss
  Ant Farm
• Deanne Lundin
  Chicory Seeds
• Thylias Moss
  Making Dresses
• Stuart Lishan
  Song of Separation 3
• Wislawa Szymborska
  Pursuit
• Albert Goldbarth
  The Fiction Shelf
• Ann Townsend
  House by a Green Sea
• Wislawa Szymborska
  A Thank-You Note
• A. R. Ammons
  Mouvance
• Joyce E. Peseroff
  The Loom
• Robert Gibb
  Raising the Blinds
• Stuart Lishan
  Song of Separation 2
• Ellen Cantor
  What We Knew
• Olena Kalytiak Davis
  In Defense of Marriage
• Eleanor Ross Taylor
  Diary Entry, March 24
• Stephen Dunn
  Riffs & Reciprocities
• A. R. Ammons
  Rogue Elephant
• Peter Cooley
  Incantation
• Thylias Moss
  A Hot Time in a Small Town
• Stuart Lishan
  Song of Separation
• Bob Hicok
  Waiting for UPS
• Michael Heffernan
  Liberty

Book ReviewsBook Reviews

• John Carpenter
  Three Polish Poets, Two Nobel Prizes

Front MatterFront Matter

• David H. Lynn
  Editor’s Notes

Kenyon Review ClassicKenyon Review Classic

• David St. John
  The Last Troubadour
• W. S. Merwin
  Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
• W. S. Merwin
  Coal Barges
• W. S. Merwin
  Canso
• W. S. Merwin
  The Nine Days of Creation
• W. S. Merwin
  The Miner
• W. S. Merwin
  A Wit in Age

FictionFiction

• Joan Connor
  Crow
• Elmo Valencia
  The Human Universe

EssaysEssays

• Tony Kushner
  Notes about Political Theater
• André Béteille
  My Two Grandmothers
• Joyce Carol Oates
  In Olden Times, When Wishing Was Having …: Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales

PoetryPoetry

• Jorie Graham
  Manteau
• Jorie Graham
  So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
• Laurie Sheck
  Wall-Writing
• Laurie Sheck
  Summer Storm
• Steve Orlen
  God’s Mistakes
• Steve Orlen
  Elegy for Steve Ferriera
• Bob Kaven
  Drams and Scruples
• Bob Kaven
  What Happened Is Hank Williams Died Here in 1948
• Christopher Buckley
  Vacuum Genesis
• Joseph Harrison
  Variation on a Theme by the Weather
• Laurie Kutchins
  September First
• Laurie Kutchins
  Think
• Lynne McMahon
  October 31
• Lynne McMahon
  Augury
• Lynne McMahon
  On Receiving a Pair of Chinese Therapeutic Balls
• Herbert Scott
  November
• Herbert Scott
  Late Fall, Rain
• Carol Frost
  Rural Weather
• Carol Frost
  A Good Night’s Sleep
• Carol Frost
  Waking
• Robert Dana
  Some Interior Room
• Rachel Hadas
  Pomegranate Variations
• M. E. Caballero-Robb
  Hummingbird Garden
• Laurence Lieberman
  Robbing the Queenies
• Mark Rudman
  Joan and Jean
• Chase Twichell
  Private Airplane
• Chase Twichell
  Saint Animal
• Chase Twichell
  The Innocent One
• Kimiko Hahn
  Mosquito and Ant: Initial Correspondence to L
• Elizabeth Spires
  Two Chairs on a Hillside
• Elizabeth Spires
  I Dreamed a Dream
• Arlene Keizer
  Bud
• Greg Delanty
  The Cure
• Greg Delanty
  Detour
• Liz Rosenberg
  I Will Not Be Moved
• Liz Rosenberg
  Want
• Liz Rosenberg
  These Hands
• Liz Rosenberg
  Kisses
• Anonymous
  Six Untitled Vietnamese Folk Poems
• Richard Tillinghast
  Tea
• Lance Larsen
  Peach
• Laura Kasischke
  Sad Song
• Laura Kasischke
  Gas Chamber at San Quentin
• Albert Goldbarth
  ***!!!The Battle of the Century!!!***
• Dionisio D. Martínez
  The Prodigal Son in His Own Words: Credo
• Robert Wrigley
  The Reign of Snakes
• Peter Cooley
  God Comes in a Dream to Cure a Suppliant
• Timothy Liu
  Power
• Timothy Liu
  The Presence of an Absence in a Midwest Town
• Dorainne Laux
  Firestarter
• Dorainne Laux
  Prayer
• Bruce Weigl
  The Singing and the Dancing
• Bruce Weigl
  Praise Wound Dirt Skin Sky in the Place of Emperors
• Bruce Weigl
  The Inexplicable Abandonment of Habit in Eclipse
• Kathy Fagan
  Sign
• Kathy Fagan
  Driving It

ReviewsReviews

• David Baker
  Hieroglyphs of Erasure
• James McCorkle
  Donald Justice: The Artist Orpheus
• Willard Spiegelman
  Scholarly Designs

Front MatterFront Matter

• David H. Lynn
  Editor’s Notes

Kenyon Review ClassicKenyon Review Classic

• Christopher Ricks
  Criticism Untrammeled
• William Empson
  The Verbal Analysis: From “My Credo: A Symposium of Critics”

FictionFiction

• Reginald McKnight
  He Sleeps
• Tess Gallagher
  My Gun
• Nancy Zafris
  Feeding the Stick
• Alyce Miller
  African Queen
• Ruth Hamel
  Myra

EssaysEssays

• Andre Dubus
  A Hemingway Story
• Anthony Winner
  Story’s Gamble with History

PoetryPoetry

• Charles Wright
  Basic Dialogue
• Charles Wright
  Stray Paragraphs in April, Year of the Rat
• Charles Wright
  A Bad Memory Makes You a Metaphysician, a Good One Makes You a Saint
• David Bottoms
  On Methodist Hill
• David Bottoms
  My Uncle Sowing Beatitudes
• David Bottoms
  A Walk to Carter’s Lake
• David Bottoms
  An Owl
• David Bottoms
  A Room on Washington Avenue
• Renée Ashley
  Poem about the Cages with a Sentence from Wallace Stevens
• Renée Ashley
  The Revisionist’s Dream (I)
• Renée Ashley
  The Revisionist’s Dream (III)
• Jane Hirshfield
  Spell to Be Said after Illness
• Jane Hirshfield
  Broken-off Twig Budding out in the Path
• Jane Hirshfield
  Orange Oil in Darkness
• Rosa Alcalá
  Apology
• Rosa Alcalá
  Es todo llegar a cantar / To Begin Singing Is Everything
• Agha Shahid Ali
  Farewell
• Agha Shahid Ali
  The Floating Post Office
• Agha Shahid Ali
  Lo, a tint cashmere! / Lo, a Rose!
• Stan Sanvel Rubin
  Baksheesh
• Donald Revell
  No Difference I Know They Are
• Donald Revell
  Thanksgiving for a Son
• Charles Simic
  Ancient Divinities
• Charles Simic
  The Wake
• Charles Simic
  Mummy’s Curse
• Alexander Thorburn
  The Piñata
• Alexander Thorburn
  The Woods
• Edward Hirsch
  Husband and Wife
• Edward Hirsch
  A Fundamentalist
• Mark Irwin
  Horse
• Mark Irwin
  Elk
• Mary Jane Nealon
  The Ship under the Foot of the Elephant
• Mary Jane Nealon
  Tagged
• Jennifer O’Grady
  Stillborn
• Jennifer O’Grady
  White
• Jennifer O’Grady
  Definitions Containing Loss
• Ann Keniston
  1961
• Ann Keniston
  Our Alliance
• Robert Thomas
  Plush Fire
• Irving Feldman
  Movietime
• Trent Busch
  Newspaper Photograph
• Trent Busch
  The Vase of Flowers
• Richard Chess
  Broken Vessels

FictionFiction

• Wendell Berry
  A Friend of Mine
• Cliff Hudder
  Misplacement
• Joyce Carol Oates
  Faithless
• Wendy Salinger
  “The Same Song”: Excerpts from a Novel

EssaysEssays

• Ruth Behar
  La Cortada
• Robert Aitken
  Do You Remember? A Buddhist Reflection
• Lori Hope Lefkovitz
  Inherited Holocaust Memory and the Ethics of Ventriloquism
• James McPherson
  The Oral History of Ira Kemp Given over Coffee in the Employees’ Lunchroom, Library of Congress, August 1976
• Wendy Doniger
  When a Kiss Is Still a Kiss: Memories of the Mind and the Body in Ancient India and Hollywood
• Anne Anlin Cheng
  The Melancholy of Race
• Israel Rosenfield
  Memory, Language, and the “Body Image”
• Rachel Hadas
  “We Both Knew This Place”: Reflections on the Art of James Merrill
• Susan Stewart
  Our Ruin

PoetryPoetry

• Joyce E. Peseroff
  America Forgetting
• Joyce E. Peseroff
  Gifts
• Alan Feldman
  On the Mooring
• Alan Feldman
  A Memoir
• Mark Halliday
  Panda Khan
• Jane Hirshfield
  “Beautiful Dawn”
• Ann Lauterbach
  Nocturnal Reel
• D. Nurkse
  Riding West with Laura
• Judith Strasser
  Memory Lapse
• Eleanor Wilner
  Of a Sun She Can Remember
• David Gewanter
  After the Wall
• Leslie Scalapino
  Five Poems from “Green and Black”
• Baron Wormser
  The Great Depression
• Baron Wormser
  My Wife Asks Me Why I Keep Photographs in a Drawer
• Baron Wormser
  Imagining Napalm: Harvard Square Summer (1967)
• Christopher Jane Corkery
  Except in Language

ReviewsReviews

• Kay Ryan
  Looking under the Landscape
• Michael S. Roth
  The Memory Politics of the Soul
• Bruce Dorsey
  When Sons Remember Their Fathers

FictionFiction

• Catherine Scherer
  Dreaming of an Altogether Different Place
• Yuri Vynnychuk
  An Embroidered World
• Sanjay Kumar Nigam
  Amrish Bound
• Thomas Glave
  The Final Inning
• Arnošt Lustig
  The Flood

EssayEssay

• Lewis Hyde
  Two Accidents: Reflections on Chance and Creativity
• Rebecca McClanahan
  The Riddle Song: A Twelve-Part Lullaby

PoetryPoetry

• Linda Gregerson
  Luke 17:32
• Linda Gregerson
  With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
• Andrea Hollander Budy
  The Other Life
• Andrea Hollander Budy
  Those Summer Sundays
• Annie Finch
  Three Generations of Secrets
• Annie Finch
  Samhain
• Jeffrey Harrison
  Foreshadowing
• Jeffrey Harrison
  Household Spirits
• Bei Dao
  Coming Onstage
• Bei Dao
  Blue Wall
• Bei Dao
  We
• Bei Dao
  Untitled
• Bei Dao
  Progress
• Bei Dao
  Creation
• Sherod Santos
  Siblings
• Sherod Santos
  Rocheport, Missouri, 1994
• Miller Williams
  Wide Place in the Road
• Sarah Messer
  Some Women Marry Houses
• Gary Young
  Four Poems
• Susan Hahn
  False Spring
• Susan Hahn
  Pinched Nerve
• Albert Goldbarth
  In
• Albert Goldbarth
  Halfway: Definitions
• Stephen Berg
  Hymn
• Ricardo Pau-Llosa
  Pachu, Trumpeter
• Richard Exner
  Almost a Conversation
• Richard Exner
  Our Time
• James Harms
  Legacy
• James Harms
  Soon
• David Wojahn
  The Shades
• Marianne Boruch
  I Paint My Bad Painting
• Enid Shomer
  Depth of Field
• Enid Shomer
  Refreshed Apollo
• Enid Shomer
  The Gene
• Enid Shomer
  The Separation
• Lynn Knight
  For a Friend Whose Love Has Left
• Sándor Csoóri
  Remembering an Old Street
• Sándor Csoóri
  Hung Over
• Sándor Csoóri
  If I Had Believed
• Walter McDonald
  The Winter before the War
• Walter McDonald
  The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor
• Walter McDonald
  The Middle Years
• Miller Williams
  If Ever There Was One
• Miller Williams
  On Word That the Old Children’s Stories Have Been Brought Up-to-Date
• Miller Williams
  Listen
• Miller Williams
  10,000-Year-Old Tree Discovered Shades Two and a Half Acres

ReviewsReviews

• Lisa M. Steinman
  A Body of Work
• David Baker
  Line by Line
• William Nichols
  Environmentalism and the Legitimacy of Hope
• Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
  The Natural Is What Poetry Contests

Kenyon Review ClassicKenyon Review Classic

• Michael Wood
  Adorno’s Ascetic Formula
• T. W. Adorno
  A Social Critique of Radio Music
• T. W. Adorno
  Theses upon Art and Religion Today

Editor's NotesEditor's Notes

• D. H. L.
  Editor’s Notes

A Kenyon Review Collage: Later LivesA Kenyon Review Collage: Later Lives

• Margaret Morganroth Gullette
  Midlife Heroines, “Older and Freer”
• Daniela Serowinski
  The Doctor and His Wife
• Thomas Glave
  Their Story
• Joan Murray
  Stop the Car
• Valerie Nieman
  Delivering the Message

FictionFiction

• Catherine Brady
  Chatter

EssaysEssays

• Rosemary Deen
  Garden Essays: 23. Feasting and Preserving
• Peter Rutkoff
  Bebop: Modern New York Jazz

PoetryPoetry

• Tom Disch
  The Vanishing Point
• Linda Bamber
  Vacation
• Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
  Procession
• Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
  Friend
• Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
  The Second Family
• Jayanta Mahapatra
  Defeat
• Jayanta Mahapatra
  Season
• Jayanta Mahapatra
  Cloak of White
• Jean Arasanayagam
  Pilgrimages
• Jean Arasanayagam
  My Guru
• Yun Wang
  The Pain Fish
• Brandel France De Bravo
  Is That a Fish in Your Pocket…?
• Michael Pettit
  Abundance
• Edward Kleinschmidt
  Clepsydra
• Edward Kleinschmidt
  At the Last Life
• Edward Kleinschmidt
  Terminus
• Edward Kleinschmidt
  Walls Falling
• Edward Kleinschmidt
  Branch of Knowledge
• Wyatt Prunty
  The Pyromaniac
• Allison Joseph
  My Father’s Heroes
• Allison Joseph
  Barbie’s Little Sister
• Jay Rogoff
  Museum
• Jay Rogoff
  Dance of the Snowflakes
• Richard Foerster
  Autumn Nightfall
• Richard Foerster
  The White Orchids
• Kate Barnes
  Kneeling Orion
• Ira Sadoff
  At the Grand Canyon
• Ira Sadoff
  A Missed Opportunity
• Nicholas Samaras
  Vespers
• Nicholas Samaras
  Writing to an Enemy
• Theodore Worozbyt
  Past Naming

ReviewReview

• David Baker
  Who Done It?

Kenyon Review ClassicsKenyon Review Classics

• David Baker
  Re: Wright
• James Wright
  Lonely
• James Wright
  Father
• James Wright
  Robert Sitting in My Hands
• James Wright
  A Girl Walking into a Shadow
• James Wright
  All the Beautiful Are Blameless
• James Wright
  Safety
• James Wright
  With the Gift of a Feather
• James Wright
  President Harding’s Tomb in Ohio

Editor's NotesEditor's Notes

• David H. Lynn
  Editor’s Notes

Special Section: Orpheus. Descending.Special Section: Orpheus. Descending.

• Sherod Santos
  Orpheus in the Underworld
• Sherod Santos
  The Story of Poetry and Poets
• Phebe Davidson
  Harriet Strong (1844-1926)
• Mark Irwin
  Orpheus
• Marjorie Stelmach
  Sacred Waters
• Marjorie Stelmach
  This Third Light
• Kat Snider Blackbird
  Pure Ereshkigal
• Jay Rogoff
  The Outer Banks
• Jay Rogoff
  Dazzle
• Lewis Hyde
  The Land of the Dead

EssaysEssays

• Jan Kott
  Don Juan, or on Desire
• Anthony Winner
  Disorders of Reading Short Novels and Perplexities

FictionFiction

• Lynn Marie
  Invisibly Dying Grass
• Pamela Painter
  Divided Highways
• Dabney Stuart
  Bright Wings

PoetryPoetry

• Carolyn Beard Whitlow
  Local Call
• Linda Bamber
  London
• Linda Bamber
  Issues of Identity
• Rebecca McClanahan
  To the Absent Wife of the Beautiful Poet at the Writers’ Conference
• Rebecca McClanahan
  This Side
• Robert Dana
  Radiance
• Robert Dana
  Sweat
• Robert Dana
  Take It or Leave It
• Frank Gaspar
  Confessions
• Phillip Sterling
  Floridian Psychology
• Phillip Sterling
  Aesthetics
• Phillip Sterling
  Mating Season
• Diane Furtney
  Mexican Morning
• Laurence Lieberman
  Three Years after the Four Days’ War
• Laurence Lieberman
  The Marriage Furies
• Laurence Lieberman
  Hosting an Idol
• Leon Stokesbury
  Evening’s End
• Leon Stokesbury
  Felliniesque
• Richard Dankleff
  Abdication of a Second Cook and Baker
• Richard Dankleff
  Whittaker
• John E. Smelcer
  The Road to Chitina
• John E. Smelcer
  The Meal
• John E. Smelcer
  Night Crossing
• Sean Enright
  Bat
• Sean Enright
  This Dusk
• Sean Enright
  So Wise

Kenyon Review ClassicsKenyon Review Classics

• Peter Taylor
  Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
• David H. Lynn
  A Revaluation: Peter Taylor Commentary

• Editors
  Erratum: Guilty

Special Section: European VoicesSpecial Section: European Voices

• Josip Novakovich
  Grandmother’s Tongue
• Alison Brackenbury
  Katya
• Alison Brackenbury
  Count Orlov
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek
  Post-Prandial Conversation
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek
  Abba Jacob in the Well
• Alexei Bayer
  Mortal Sin
• Mikhail Aizenberg
  And like a Silly Burrowing Sectarian
• Michael Kaniecki
  Love Songs for the SS
• Tatyana Shcherbina
  Untitled: From Munich, 1991
• Liliana Ursu
  Saint Anthony
• Liliana Ursu
  The Russian Army in Moldova
• Liliana Ursu
  Mathematics
• Kathleen Spivack
  Between Two Cultures

FictionFiction

• Joyce Carol Oates
  Death Mother
• Catherine Gammon
  Guilty
• Catherine Scherer
  Cathy and Her Mom
• Dudley Saunders
  Elegy for No Place: An Excerpt from the Novel “No Place”
• Mina Kumar
  Excitement
• C. F. Ramuz
  An Old Farmer

EssaysEssays

• Cia White
  What We Will Call Nature
• Jascha Kessler
  Mary Butts: Lost … and Found

PoetryPoetry

• Pattiann Rogers
  Mousefeet
• Pattiann Rogers
  Where Do Your People Come from?
• Michael S. Harper
  Prologue of an Arkansas Traveler
• David Wagoner
  The Rosebush
• David Wagoner
  My Passenger
• Maurice Kilwein Guevara
  Spirit
• Maurice Kilwein Guevara
  To the Dead Farmer
• Judith Barrington
  Why Young Girls like to Ride Bareback
• C. Stephen Dew
  March 11, 1994
• Ann Townsend
  In a Moment
• Ann Townsend
  The Breathing Treatment
• Emily Warn
  While the Secretaries Compose the Engineers’ Torah
• Emily Warn
  Procession
• Robyn Selman
  Work Song
• Carole Simmons Oles
  Voices: Mother and Daughter
• Carolyn Beard Whitlow
  Verily, Vérité
• Dave Smith
  Arising
• Dave Smith
  Nine Ball
• Dave Smith
  Quail
• Dave Smith
  Field Dressing
• Dave Smith
  Fantastic Pelicans Arrive
• Dave Smith
  Descending
• Edie Meidav
  Fish Tacos, or, the Three Most Important Lies
• Edie Meidav
  Half-Light
• Ray Gonzalez
  How?
• Ray Gonzalez
  The Heat of Arrivals
• Ray Gonzalez
  Explain
• Theodore Deppe
  The Japanese Deer
• Lawrence Raab
  A Small Lie

InterviewInterview

• William Walsh
  I Am a Woman Writer; I Am a Western Writer: An Interview with Ursula Le Guin

ReviewReview

• Willard Spiegelman
  History by Many Hands

Special Section: Asian-American LiteratureSpecial Section: Asian-American Literature

• Ha Jin
  Emperor
• Marilyn Chin
  Cauldron
• Marilyn Chin
  The Colonial Language Is English
• Priscilla Lee
  Prayers to Buddha
• Priscilla Lee
  Midwife
• Sorayya Y. Khan
  The Color of the Lahore Sky
• Timothy Liu
  Naked
• Marie G. Lee
  Dreams

FictionFiction

• Kate Braverman
  Vanishing Acts
• Terese Svoboda
  I Dreamt He Fell Three Floors and Lived

EssaysEssays

• T. R. Hummer
  Laughed off: Canon, Kharakter, and the Dismissal of Vachel Lindsay
• Rosemary Deen
  Garden Essays

PoetryPoetry

• Alice Fulton
  Drills
• Alice Fulton
  Echo Location
• Frank Gaspar
  Whiskey
• Frank Gaspar
  Small Prayer for the World without Mercy on Us
• Frank Gaspar
  Kapital
• Khaled Mattawa
  To His Father: A Biography
• Gerald Stern
  Ida
• Carol Muske
  Similes
• Forrest Hamer
  Goldsboro Narrative #24: Second Benediction
• Nell Altizer
  Cape Farewell
• Marcus Cafagña
  The Broken World
• D. Nurkse
  Scattering the March
• D. Nurkse
  Threshold of Liberty
• D. Nurkse
  Excelsior Fashion Products, Easter
• Miller Williams
  Holiday Inn: Surrounded by Someone Else’s Reunion, He Comes to Terms
• Martha Collins
  Points
• Martha Collins
  Lets
• Martha Collins
  Means

ReviewsReviews

• Sue Russell
  Among Lovers, Among Friends
• Terese Svoboda
  Try Bondage
• Jay Rogoff
  Books of Revelation

FictionFiction

• Diana Abu-Jaber
  My Elizabeth
• Suzanne Gardinier
  March 12, 1810: Doe Run
• Lynda Sexson
  Creep, Crop, Cry, Cream
• W. A. McDonald
  Two Quarters
• Sesshu Foster
  From City Terrace Field Manual
• Daniel Curzon
  Wasps

InterviewInterview

• Michelle M. Tokarczyk
  The City, the Waterworks, and Writing: An Interview with E. L. Doctorow

EssaysEssays

• Kathleen Woodward
  Bureaucratic and Binding Emotions: Angry American Autobiography
• Peter Erickson
  Singing America: From Walt Whitman to Adrienne Rich
• Cheryl Clarke
  The Loss of Lyric Space and the Critique of Traditions in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “In the Mecca”

PoetryPoetry

• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Nude Study
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Antebellum Silhouettes
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Netherworlds
• Melissa Cannon
  Grandma to Little Red
• Melissa Cannon
  Imagine Danger
• Sarah Gorham
  My Daughter Defaces the Life of Emily Dickinson
• Sarah Gorham
  Man Drinking a Cup of Coffee
• Adrian C. Louis
  Vortex of Indian Fevers
• Tim Seibles
  Check Outside
• Adam Sol
  Vienna March
• Stephanie Strickland
  Young Willard Gibbs Is a Physicist
• Stephanie Strickland
  Striving All My Life
• Kevin Young
  Tuff Buddies
• Kevin Young
  Belongings
• Yannis Ritsos
  Perhaps
• Yannis Ritsos
  Forgetfulness
• Yannis Ritsos
  Bitter Knowledge
• Jacqueline Marcus
  No Other Heaven
• Jan Clausen
  Moments of Departure
• Deb Casey
  Boat
• Stephen Berg
  From “Rimbaud”: The Impossible
• Stephen Berg
  From “Rimbaud”: Happiness
• Stephen Berg
  From “Rimbaud”: Words
• Stephen Berg
  From “Rimbaud”: Pain
• Stephen Berg
  From “Rimbaud”: Hands
• Stephen Berg
  From “Rimbaud”: Impasse Metanoia
• Bob Hicok
  Your Daughter

ReviewsReviews

• Sue Russell
  Acts of Reclamation
• Leslie Ullman
  The Heart’s Difficult Speech