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Spring 2023
Vol. XLV No. 2
The Spring 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a folio of literature in translation guest edited by award-winning translators Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Jeremy Tiang. The issue also includes poetry by Kwame Dawes, Timothy Donnelly, K. Iver, and Danusha Laméris; fiction by Sam J. Miller, Michael Tod Powers, J. T. Sutlive, and Lindsay Turner; nonfiction by A. J. Bermudez; and the winner of the 2022 Short Fiction Contest, judged by Karen Russell. The cover art is by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum.
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2022 Short Fiction Contest
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Karen Russell
2022 Short Fiction Contest Introduction -
M. W. Brooke
Siphonophore -
Kira Homsher
Pareidolia -
Alexandra Munck
Doe
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Karen Russell
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Nonfiction
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A. J. Bermudez
Fossil Land
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A. J. Bermudez
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Fiction
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Sam J. Miller
A Field Guide to the Bear-Men of Leningrad -
J. T. Sutlive
Two-Headed Dog -
Lindsay Turner
The Bear -
Isabelle Burden
The Snail -
Susan Shepherd
Baboons -
Michael Tod Powers
Two House Cats, Bearing News
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Sam J. Miller
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Poetry
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Kwame Dawes
The Remnant -
Kwame Dawes
Gated -
Catherine Staples
Inflorescense -
Pádraig Ó Tuama
After the Flood -
Gabriel Antonio Reed
Wing Studies -
Danusha Laméris
Okra -
Joy Priest
Redemption -
Joy Priest
The Black Outside -
K. Iver
East Manhattan -
Margaret Galey
November -
Timothy Donnelly
Wandering Castle -
Timothy Donnelly
To Eat a Peach
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Kwame Dawes
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Translation Folio
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Anton Hur
Introduction to a Translation Folio Guest Edited by Jennifer Croft, Jeremy Tiang, and Anton Hur -
Manikkavacakar
Whose Words Are Rubies: Excerpts from “Tiruvcakam” -
Bae Myung-hoon
The Aspiration for “Cha-Ka-Ta-Pa” -
The U.S. War Department
a sequel under [an old name], exposed: Excerpts from “The People of the Philippines” -
Nhã Thuyên
Don’t Hide the Madness -
Florentino Solano
Loom -
Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Retranslating Poetry with Runes: A Ritual for Poet-Translators -
Olja Alvir
Vienna Calling -
Diana Iepure
Two Poems from “Other Than That, Life Is Beautiful” -
Ao Omae
Tumbleweed -
Daisy Rockwell
Shahen-Shah-e-Kulfi in a Golden Jungle -
Lee Jenny
Unappeasable Peas -
Clarisse Baleja Saïdi
Guests, Ghosts, Hosts (or, Adaptation; or, Language on Being) -
Zhu Yue
A Diagram of the Two Sexes -
Edvard Munch
Notes on “The Scream” - Dead Sea Scroll
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Anton Hur
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Why We Chose It
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Claire Oleson
Why We Chose It: “Two House Cats, Bearing News” -
Andrew Grace
Why We Chose It: “Inflorescence”
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Claire Oleson
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Winter 2023
Vol. XLV No. 1
The Kenyon Review’s Winter 2023 issue marks our return to a quarterly publication schedule and the debut of our new magazine design, with cover and logo by Janet Hansen and interior design by Sebit Min. It includes a folio of fiction guest edited by Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon, who selected stories by Tom Comitta, Anna Hartford, Amina Kayani, hurmat kazmi, Danny Lang-Perez, and Sarp Sozdinler. You’ll also find nonfiction by Robert Finch and Diane Mehta; poetry by Megan Fernandes, William Logan, and Maria Zoccola; plus the winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Contest judged by Maggie Nelson, and so much more. The vibrant cover art is a detail of Justify by Krista Franklin, and inside the issue, you’ll find a portfolio of art by Jordan Seaberry.
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2022 Nonfiction Contest
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Nonfiction
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Diane Mehta
Documents -
Robert Finch
The Bell(s) of St. Alban’s -
Marianne Jay Erhardt
The Girl the Girls Piece Together
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Diane Mehta
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Fiction
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Karolina Letunova
This Story of Migration Exists in Two Languages, and Why Shouldn’t It? -
Karolina Letunova
We Break Apart -
Emeline Atwood
The Orphanage
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Karolina Letunova
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Bridges: A Fiction Folio
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Laura van den Berg
Introduction to Bridges: A Fiction Folio Guest Edited by Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon - Private: The Evening of Orphans (print only)
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Anna Hartford
The Large Glass -
Tom Comitta
The Snuff Box of Mr. —— -
Danny Lang-Perez
Block Party -
Sarp Sozdinler
Ladybird -
Amina Kayani
The Storyteller
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Laura van den Berg
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Art Portfolio
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Jordan Seaberry
The Seven Lives of Momentum
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Jordan Seaberry
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Poetry
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Madeleine Cravens
Sonnet with Two Bridges -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy Goes Ice Fishing -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy Calls Her Sister -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy on the Affair -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy in February -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy Avoids Her School Reunion -
Suphil Lee Park
Little Is Unchanged of the Landscape in Retrospect -
Eric Pankey
Empty Calendar -
Eric Pankey
Notes Home -
Ruth Ellen Kocher
god of salt -
Megan Fernandes
The False Beloveds with One Exception (or, Repetition Compulsion) -
Paula Bohince
Sumptuary -
Paula Bohince
The Bee -
Paula Bohince
Songbird -
Ella Finer
The Night, like the Bridge, Another Kind of Arc for Her to Cross -
Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí
After the Laying -
Candace G. Wiley
Unidentified Suspect -
Candace G. Wiley
We Mutants -
Abbas Kiarostami
Eight Poems -
Cate Lycurgus
There Together is Enough -
M.K. Foster
World’s Oldest Spider Dies, Aged 43 -
M.K. Foster
Sister Blue -
William Logan
In Memoriam, In Advance
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Madeleine Cravens
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Comic
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Coyote Shook
Bitterroot: Visions of the Martyr Saint Lawrence
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Coyote Shook
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Sept/Oct 2022
Vol. XLIV No. 5
The Sept/Oct 2022 issue includes fiction by Sophia Emmons-Bell, Sena Moon, Matthew Neill Null, and Adam Wilson; poetry by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Jenny George, Rochelle Hurt, and Shelley Wong; nonfiction by Tan Tuck Ming; and more. Plus, you’ll find the winner and runners-up of the 2022 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. The spectacular cover art for this issue is by Jordan Seaberry.
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2022 Patricia Grodd Prize for Young Writers
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Molly McCully Brown
Young Poets Introduction -
Sophie Bernik
Come Closer -
Myra Kamal
Diptych on Getting from Point A to Point B -
Madison Xu
For My Father, Who Lives Alone
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Molly McCully Brown
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Fiction
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Drew Calvert
Social Learning -
Sophia Emmons-Bell
Make and Model -
Thomas Israel Hopkins
The Prodigal Clockmakers -
Adam Wilson
Risa at the Beach -
Matthew Neill Null
The Dropper -
Sena Moon
Porn Star
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Drew Calvert
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Nonfiction
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Tan Tuck Ming
Departures
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Tan Tuck Ming
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Poetry
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Jeff Whitney
There Are 118 Known Elements -
Jenny George
Quantum -
Jenny George
Jenny George -
Rochelle Hurt
Three Poems -
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
When my mother sees me with a new man -
Shelley Wong
Headlands 1 -
Shelley Wong
Headlands 2 -
Peter LaBerge
USA Today Says the Pacific Coast Highway is Falling into the Ocean -
Peter LaBerge
Century Flower -
Peter LaBerge
Blue Peony -
Dan Rosenberg
Jobs I’ve Never Had -
Dan Rosenberg
How I’ll Make It Better -
Callie Siskel
Mise en Abyme -
Alison Powell
Like This. Fortune -
Alison Powell
Water, IRL -
Alison Powell
Pandemic Dog -
Marney Rathbun
Splinter -
Laura Creste
This Is Just To Say -
Andrew Hemmert
A Little Bit of History -
JP Grasser
Late Treatise on Bovine Gestation -
JP Grasser
Longitudinal Study
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Jeff Whitney
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July/Aug 2022
Vol. XLIV No. 4
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Angry Mamas
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Emily Raboteau
Why We Chose It: “Angry Mamas” by Genevieve Guenther -
Genevieve Guenther
The Practice of Anger in a Warming World -
Humera Afridi
Mangroves on My Mind -
Laura Picklesimer
Madeline -
Anya Kamenetz
My Valley -
Camille T. Dungy
Only Child -
Patricia Engel
Archipelago -
Deborah Paredez
Shore Shorn [Excerpt] -
Sandy Solomon
Rescue -
Aliyeh Ataei
To Live Again -
Sadia Quraeshi Shepard
Two Waters -
Erika Meitner
Gnostic Spring, or That New York Times Article on Languishing -
Cleyvis Natera
Sugar -
Debora Kuan
How to Raise Children at the End of the World -
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Triggerfish Invective - Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review
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Emily Raboteau
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Fiction
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Genta Nishku
Understory -
Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Why We Chose It: “Understory” by Genta Nishku -
Timothy Reynolds
Still Life with Lobster -
Mary Kuryla
Abandon Ship -
Amy Katherine Talcott
Bitter Waters
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Genta Nishku
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Nonfiction
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Sophia Stid
The Virgin and the Pelican: A Lyric -
Sandra Meek
The Scarlet Macaw: A Note -
Christina Rivera Cogswell
Two Breaths
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Sophia Stid
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Poetry
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Samuel Amadon
Divers -
Samuel Amadon
Divers -
Samuel Amadon
Divers -
Samuel Amadon
Divers -
Stacie Cassarino
Body Electric -
Michael Metivier
Rough Idyll -
Michael Metivier
& Everything After -
Jason Myers
Imago Dei -
Jason Myers
Two of Everything -
Anna V. Q. Ross
All my poems used to end in sky -
Anna V. Q. Ross
Not if, but when -
Katie Umans
Mother, Memory, Cellophane -
Jane Wong
Fruit -
Sandra Meek
Pegasus and Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) -
Sandra Meek
The Scarlet Macaw -
Shara Lessley
Prayer on the Theme of Adoration -
Shara Lessley
(Re)vision -
Diane Mehta
The Caged Skylark Reflected on a Green Vase -
Diane Mehta
Hymn to Endings
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Samuel Amadon
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May/June 2022
Vol. XLIV No. 3
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Drama
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Sherod Santos
Silent Billy
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Sherod Santos
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Fiction
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Renée Branum
Animal Days -
Arinze Ifeakandu
Happy Is a Doing Word -
Nolan Capps
The Tale of the Black Worry Beads -
Calvin Gimpelevich
Burned Location -
David Crouse
The Arm of the Lord
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Renée Branum
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Why We Chose It
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Why We Chose It: “Burned Location” by Calvin Gimpelevich
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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Nature’s Nature
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David Baker
Nature’s Nature -
Maya C. Popa
Pestilence -
Linda Gregerson
Bearded Iris -
D. S. Waldman
You Asked About Longing -
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Bodies in the Air -
Paisley Rekdal
望 鄉 / Home-Gazing -
Paisley Rekdal
埋 / Bury -
Brenda Hillman
::[untitled]:: -
Brenda Hillman
[untitled tableau] -
Brenda Hillman
Escape & Energy -
Brenda Hillman
Escape & Logic -
Grant Clauser
Proper Use of Knots in the Wild -
Grant Clauser
The Proper Application of First Aid in the Wild -
Marilyn Chin
You Go, Me Stay, Two Autumns -
Elizabeth Arnold
Elegy -
Corrie Williamson
Mercy Me -
Corrie Williamson
You’re Hoarding Guns, I’m Growing Herbs -
Corrie Williamson
O Come & Let Me Tell Thee How Wholly I Am Thine -
Jesse Nathan
The Well, Rural Route 1 Box 43 -
Strummer Hoffston
The Kingdom -
Evie Shockley
nature studies -
Evie Shockley
the lost track of time -
Tricia Knoll
Boulders and Bedrock -
Rosanna Warren
Inscription -
Rosanna Warren
Soseki’s Shrine
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David Baker
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Nonfiction
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Melissa Seley
Gladioli
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Melissa Seley
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Poetry
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Kenyon Review
We Sang Every Morning After Breakfast
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Kenyon Review
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Out Loud
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Mar/Apr 2022
Vol. XLIV No. 2
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Fiction
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Angela Woodward
Ink -
Jennifer Croft
Anaheim -
Willa C. Richards
What Can’t Be Grown Must Be Mined -
Jared Jackson
Bebo -
Daniel J. O’Malley
The Allens
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Angela Woodward
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Why We Chose It
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Elliott Holt
Why We Chose It: “Bebo” by Jared Jackson -
Richie Hofmann
Why We Chose It: “Human Resources” by Ryann Stevenson
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Elliott Holt
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Nonfiction
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Dylan Reynolds
Butchers -
Erika Veurink
Pioneer Days -
Annalisa Bolin
Like Dogs
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Dylan Reynolds
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Poetry
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Major Jackson
Of Wolves and Imagination -
Ryann Stevenson
Human Resources -
Ryann Stevenson
The Valley -
Ryann Stevenson
Fatigue -
Leila Chatti
The Reversal -
Leila Chatti
Prelapsarian -
Xiao Yue Shan
wealth distribution will not be considered in the economic reform -
Xiao Yue Shan
the right to work -
Xiao Yue Shan
kitchen -
Xiao Yue Shan
strategy -
Blas Falconer
The Conversion -
Blas Falconer
In the book we are reading together, -
Alan Shapiro
A Loft -
Keith S. Wilson
walmart -
Keith S. Wilson
trickle-down theory -
CJ Evans
Every Ending Should Make a Sound -
Mikey Swanberg
Automatic Reply
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Major Jackson
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Out Loud
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Jan/Feb 2022
Vol. XLIV No. 1
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2021 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
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Ted Mathys
Tallgrass -
Sam Zafris
The Clothes I Kept -
Rachel L. Robbins
The Bat Inspector -
Malavika Shetty
Newbury Street, March 2020
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Ted Mathys
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Fiction
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Lan Samantha Chang
Excerpts from The Family Chao -
Vanessa Chan
Bloodlines -
Joanna Pearson
Grand Mal -
Drew Johnson
A Naked Horse
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Lan Samantha Chang
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Why We Chose It
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Why We Chose It: “A Naked Horse” by Drew Johnson
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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Nonfiction
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Melissa Chadburn
Exergue -
Alice Jones
Nothings -
Beth Ann Fennelly
It Is Hard When Your Job Is Hard But Doesn’t Appear to Be So -
Beth Ann Fennelly
My Sister Used to Give Me Blank Journals for My Birthday, -
Beth Ann Fennelly
Only the Basement -
Beth Ann Fennelly
Two Sisters, One Slow, One Fast -
Beth Ann Fennelly
The Irish Goodbye -
Beth Ann Fennelly
Related Searches
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Melissa Chadburn
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Poetry
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Michael Prior
Four-Leaf Clover -
Ruth Awad
Guilt Me -
Ruth Awad
All the Oranges of Tripoli -
Maggie Millner
Djurgården -
Maggie Millner
Zipper -
Cameron Awkward-Rich
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times -
Cameron Awkward-Rich
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times -
Joan Wickersham
The Other Joan -
Joan Wickersham
The Work of the Carvers -
Joan Wickersham
King David on the Stern -
Joan Wickersham
The Infrared Camera -
Cate Marvin
The Eyes of the Neighborhood -
Cate Marvin
Starfuckers -
Cate Marvin
Event Horizon -
Cate Marvin
Friend of the Flies -
Natasha Sajé
A Phrasal Verb Primer -
Traci Brimhall
Pastoral without Fairies in the Hawthorn -
Katie Hartsock
The Nipple Shield of Achilles
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Michael Prior
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Out Loud
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Nov/Dec 2021
Vol. XLIII No. 6
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2021 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest
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Brigitte Leschhorn Arrocha
And We Inherit Everything -
Christian Butterfield
Blue Whale Challenge -
dm armstrong
Translating
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Brigitte Leschhorn Arrocha
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Drama
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Kemuel DeMoville
The End of the World as We Know It
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Kemuel DeMoville
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Fiction
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Morgan Thomas
Manywhere -
Bennett Sims
Unknown -
Hananah Zaheer
The Good People of Lahore -
Robert Travieso
Open When Alone
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Morgan Thomas
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Nonfiction
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Paula C. Brancato
Archaeology
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Paula C. Brancato
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Poetry
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Arthur Sze
Into the Hush -
Richie Hofmann
Things That Are Rare -
Richie Hofmann
Linen -
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
Jericho Hymnal -
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
Seila -
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
Cleft -
Dayna Patterson
Our Lady of Thread -
Lindsay Stuart Hill
Autumn Scrapbook -
Kai Carlson-Wee
Mattress -
Colin Pope
Test Prayer When You Suspect You’re Actually in a Version of Hell
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Arthur Sze
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Out Loud
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Sept/Oct 2021
Vol. XLIII No. 5
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2021 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Daniel Zhang
Golden -
Blair Enright
Dr. Freud’s Magic 8-Ball -
Gaia Rajan
Ghost Town, Ohio
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Daniel Zhang
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Fiction
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Marcela Fuentes
Skip Outs -
Heather Bourbeau
The Perfumer -
Catherine Carberry
Chamonix -
Bess Winter
Selections from The Collected Works of Walter Potter
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Marcela Fuentes
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Nonfiction
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Laurie Kutchins
The Ward Is the World
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Laurie Kutchins
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Poetry
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Linda Gregerson
Uncorrected Vision -
Linda Gregerson
A Knitted Femur -
Matt Hart
Why I’m Always Doing This -
Matt Hart
How’d You Get So Big? -
Jennifer R. Kellogg
“Musical Notes” for a Poem -
Wesley Rothman
A Stone the Size of a Peach -
Wesley Rothman
Where Have You Gone, Phillip Lindsay Mason? -
Rajiv Mohabir
Ode to Waheeda Rehman’s Serpent Dance -
Rajiv Mohabir
Pointer Broom -
Lee Young-ju
The Summer Returns Home -
Lee Young-ju
First Love -
Lee Young-ju
The Snake I Saw in an Old Palace -
Miriam Bird Greenberg
Of Exile -
Hadara Bar-Nadav
The Dybbuk Ascends -
Beth Bachmann
Face -
Nancy Reddy
After Cocktail Hour -
Bruce Beasley
Mind the Gaps -
Bruce Beasley
Thoughts and Prayers Triage -
Nicole Callihan
grief being a procession of people -
Nicole Callihan
grief being thin as an envelope -
Nicole Callihan
grief being a movable city -
Nicole Callihan
grief being a pink pearl
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Linda Gregerson
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Out Loud
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July/Aug 2021
Vol. XLIII No. 4
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Fiction
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Betsy Boyd
Adult Swim -
Perry Lopez
Caduceus -
Kelsey Norris
An Excerpt from “Sentries” -
Márcia Tiburi
The Mother -
Suzie Eckl
An Excerpt from “Visitation”
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Betsy Boyd
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Nonfiction
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Austyn Gaffney
Magic City
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Austyn Gaffney
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Poetry
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Yam Gong
Poems from the King of Laziness -
Yam Gong
Exercises in Fireworks -
Danielle Cadena Deulen
The Uncertainty Principle -
Bryan Byrdlong
I feel most like a zombi after consuming a cocktail -
Bryan Byrdlong
Morning of the Living Dead -
Paisley Rekdal
壤 / Soil -
Paisley Rekdal
知 / Know -
Christopher Blackman
Whiskey Island -
Alessandra Lynch
Charcoal Gray the Shadows -
Alessandra Lynch
I Love My Brother -
Sara Michas-Martin
Visibly Pregnant -
Alina Stefanescu
Byline, Be Sky -
Alina Stefanescu
Ode to Something Elusive -
Allison Benis White
Postcards to M.
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Yam Gong
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Out Loud
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May/June 2021
Vol. XLIII No. 3
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Fiction
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Maureen Langloss
Sexy Motherfucker’s Mom -
Gina Chung
Human Hearts -
Katherine Sharpe
Belles Lettres -
María José Candela
The Brownie
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Maureen Langloss
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Nonfiction
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Sophie Beck
Never Punk -
Amit Majmudar
The Master and Emily -
Jonathan Gleason
Gilead
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Sophie Beck
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Poetry
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Marianne Boruch
Some New-Century Pliny Bent Over a Map -
Marianne Boruch
Don’t Worry about What Goes On -
Bill Carty
Outer Lands -
Bill Carty
The Marshes Have No Memory -
Jesse Nathan
Goodbye at Monument Rocks -
Jesse Nathan
If You Draw Rightly On A Wound, It Might Righten -
Paul Nemser
How Many Times My Eyes Have Opened -
Sandra McPherson
For Eleanor, from a Line by Zora Neale Hurston -
Sara Backer
Impossible White Goat -
Marianne Chan
Biddle City Filipina -
Marianne Chan
Autobiography Via Forgetting -
Marianne Chan
One Cactus -
Marianne Chan
Watching a Documentary about Imelda Marcos, I Think about the Bottoms of My Cousin’s Feet -
Hussain Ahmed
Blue Water -
Rita Dove
Soup -
Rita Dove
Island -
Rebecca Lehmann
Ablation
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Marianne Boruch
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Out Loud
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Mar/Apr 2021
Vol. XLIII No. 2
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2020 Short Nonfiction Contest
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Ira Sukrungruang
Short Nonfiction Contest Introduction -
Miriam Grossman
2004 -
Mary O. Parker
Currents and Eddies -
Stella Li
Mouthwater
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Ira Sukrungruang
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Fiction
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Chigozie Obioma
Birdlime -
Winona León
Collapsible
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Chigozie Obioma
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Nature’s Nature
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David Baker
Nature’s Nature -
Diane Seuss
from -
Kevin Young
Squall -
Kevin Young
Lilies -
Kevin Young
Bouquet -
Kevin Young
Evensong -
Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Pigeon Slippers -
Craig Santos Perez
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Virus -
Craig Santos Perez
Full Moon, New Word -
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Views of Nature -
Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Bog -
Jane Huffman
Dilemma -
Burnside Soleil
Nel (Tenebrae) -
Burnside Soleil
Imani -
Burnside Soleil
Jeremy -
Rita Dove
The Spring Cricket Observes Valentine’s Day -
David St. John
The Sketchbook -
Nikki Wallschlaeger
Talking about the Weather -
Nikki Wallschlaeger
Grapeland -
Anna Journey
Lullaby Interrupted by the Stump of the Mammoth Tree -
Anna Journey
The Judas Ear -
Phillip B. Williams
Final Poem for the Moon -
Johannes Göransson
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David Baker
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Nonfiction
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Philip Metres
The Peace Walls
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Philip Metres
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Out Loud
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