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Jan/Feb 2015
Vol. XXXVII No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2014 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Young Poets Introduction -
Michaela Jenkins
indigo sister -
Dalia Ahmed
Open in the Spring
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
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Fiction
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Wil Weitzel
Three Parts of Hunger -
Adrienne Celt
Go Back -
Noy Holland
Monocot -
Rachel Cantor
Dead Dresses
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Wil Weitzel
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Nonfiction
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Poetry
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Robert Gibb
After -
Linda Pastan
Elegy -
Kwame Dawes
In This Saying -
Amy Beeder
Letter from Inmate 0709-609 -
Amy Beeder
The House of Être -
Amy Beeder
Flaubert and the Chancre -
Chana Bloch
Inside Out -
Richie Hofmann
Powdered Wig -
Roger Desy
Winter Apples -
Roger Desy
Imprints -
Leslie Harrison
[There are things you love] -
John Koethe
La Durée
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Robert Gibb
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Fall 2014
Vol. XXXVI No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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The Kenyon Review Credos
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D. H. L.
Introduction: Kenyon Review Credos -
Joyce Carol Oates
This I Believe: Five Motives for Writing
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D. H. L.
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2014 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize
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Katharine Weber
Introduction: Short Fiction Prize -
Amy Victoria Blakemore
Previously, Sparrows -
Michael Capel
Florida Arizona Buffalo Hawaii -
Frank Fucile
Slow and Steady
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Katharine Weber
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Fiction
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Megan Mayhew Bergman
The Siege at Whale Cay -
Michelle Latiolais
She -
Lori Ostlund
The Peeping Toms
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Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Nonfiction
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Melissa Febos
All of Me -
Aja Gabel
The Sparrows in France -
Carl Phillips
Foliage -
Ira Sadoff
Gerald Stern’s Encounters with the Sublime -
Bruce Bond
Mercury’s Passage: Poetry, Fracture, and the Talking Cure
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Melissa Febos
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Poetry
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Joanna Klink
Night on Land -
Joanna Klink
Stillways -
Eric Pankey
Ars Poetica -
Campbell McGrath
A Greeting on the Trail -
Campbell McGrath
Two Poems for Czesław Miłosz -
J. Scott Brownlee
Hosea 4:3 -
Jeffrey Harrison
Politics of the Dead -
Kimberly Grey
We Are Mostly Merciful -
Sherod Santos
Lunar Reddened (A Narrative) -
Sherod Santos
Ilium -
Ben Purkert
Remaining on Point -
Jacques Rancourt
The Same World -
Jacques Rancourt
Against Whitman -
Jacques Rancourt
Golgotha -
José González Prada
Being’s Breath -
Harold Schweizer
But Do Not Let Them Know You Were Alone When You Died
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Joanna Klink
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Review
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David S. Reynolds
Riffing on America
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David S. Reynolds
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Summer 2014
Vol. XXXVI No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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The Kenyon Review Credos
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D. H. L.
Introduction: The Kenyon Review Credos -
George Saunders
On Process
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D. H. L.
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A Symposium On Emily Dickinson
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David Baker
At Home with Emily Dickinson -
David Baker
Thresholds -
Carl Phillips
Hours -
Stanley Plumly
Wings -
Ann Townsend
Rowing in Eden
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David Baker
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Drama
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Peter Grandbois
The Woman Who Was Me
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Peter Grandbois
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Fiction
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Shauna Seliy
Kingdom -
Kate Petersen
Mezzo -
R.T. Jamison
Forty Days in the Desert -
Adam Peterson
Knock, Knock -
Kellie Wells
Moon, Moon, My Honey
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Shauna Seliy
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Nonfiction
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Mara Naselli
On Being a Mother
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Mara Naselli
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Poetry
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John Kinsella
Orange 1962 Massey Ferguson Tractor, Corthna, Ireland, 2013 -
John Kinsella
Cows Materializing Out of Fog Twitch the Sacred Heart -
Stanley Plumly
Late Winter Dusk -
Stanley Plumly
Terminal Insomnia -
Stanley Plumly
Jack Gilbert -
Mary Ruefle
The Milkmaid -
Mary Ruefle
Muguet des Bois -
Mary Ruefle
Pink Kisses -
Mary Ruefle
Grandma Moses -
Mary Ruefle
Tuna and a Play - Snow
- The Mansion of the Woods
- The Turn in the Road
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Mirabeau Bridge -
Guillaume Apollinaire
Lul de Faltenin -
Allison Hutchcraft
Oh, Dodo. You Can’t -
Allison Hutchcraft
Dodo, Duodo, Sluggard -
Allison Hutchcraft
You, Again -
Rickey Laurentiis
Lord and Chariot -
Julie Carr
A Fourteen-line Poem on Sex -
Julie Carr
A Fourteen-line Poem on Love -
Julie Carr
A Fourteen-line Poem on Having Once Been a Child -
Kevin Craft
The Changeling
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John Kinsella
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Spring 2014
Vol. XXXVI No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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The Kenyon Review Credos
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D. H. L.
Introduction: The Kenyon Review Credos -
Meghan O’Rourke
Available in Response
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D. H. L.
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Fiction
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Michael McGuire
Three Sisters -
Ayşe Papatya Bucak
An Ottoman’s Arabesque -
Michael Nye
Beauty in the Age of Chaos and Savagery -
Debbie Urbanski
The Reason for All My Sounds -
Vojislav Pejović
Night Swim -
Debra Nystrom
River
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Michael McGuire
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Nonfiction
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Tony Hoagland
Idiom, Our Funny Valentine: Its Cunning, Its Romance, Its Power -
Stanley Plumly
Jerusalem
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Tony Hoagland
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Poetry
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Carol Ann Davis
Busy Their Hands -
Talvikki Ansel
How It Sounds -
Ted Kooser
Sundial -
Jill Bialosky
Jane Austen -
Jill Bialosky
The Lucky Ones -
Emily Wilson
Secretive Soil Fauna -
Emily Wilson
Exhibition -
Emily Wilson
Turned Figure -
Emily Wilson
Hibernal -
Emily Wilson
Strobilus -
Gillian Conoley
I Am Writing an Article (Johnny Cash) -
K. A. Hays
On the Day the World Is Forecast to End and Does Not -
K. A. Hays
Another Prophecy Unfulfilled -
Tony Hoagland
River -
Tony Hoagland
K Street in Springtime -
Stephen Dunn
Remaining the Same -
Stephen Dunn
My Bad
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Carol Ann Davis
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Review
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David Wojahn
Doorstops and Leave-takings: Four Poets
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David Wojahn
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Winter 2014
Vol. XXXVI No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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The Kenyon Review Credos
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D. H. L.
Introduction: The Kenyon Review Credos -
Carl Phillips
Foliage
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D. H. L.
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2013 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize
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Katharine Weber
Introduction: 2013 Short Fiction Prize -
Heather Monley
Town of Birds -
Wes Holtermann
Hurricane -
Clarke Clayton
Sculptures
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Katharine Weber
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Drama
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Amit Majmudar
God of the Tomcats
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Amit Majmudar
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Fiction
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Charles Baxter
Chastity -
Joyce Carol Oates
The Home at Craigmillnar -
Roger Rosenblatt
An Excerpt from “The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood” -
John Kinsella
The Favored Son -
Ersi Sotiropoulos
Summer with Anna -
Jaquira Díaz
Ghosts
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Charles Baxter
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Nonfiction
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Willard Spiegelman
Mark Strand’s Luminous Nostalgia -
Jeffrey Meyers
D. H. Lawrence’s Children -
Stanley Plumly
George and John
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Willard Spiegelman
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Poetry
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Carl Phillips
Last Night -
Carl Phillips
Capella -
Carl Phillips
In Which to Wonder Flew a Kind of Reckoning -
Carl Phillips
Stamina -
Debra Allbery
‘To breathe my Blank without thee’ -
Timothy Liu
The Gift -
Timothy Liu
Sine Qua Non -
Kevin Prufer
Pacification -
Kevin Prufer
Ars Poetica -
Kevin Prufer
Not Near Enough -
Kimiko Hahn
Circling a Nest -
Linda Gregerson
The Wrath of Juno -
Linda Gregerson
Heliotrope -
Linda Gregerson
The Dolphins -
Linda Gregerson
The Wrath of Juno -
Yehuda Amichai
To the Full Severity of Compassion -
Yehuda Amichai
And Let Us Not Get Excited -
Yehuda Amichai
Equality -
C. Dale Young
Wrestling with the Angel -
C. Dale Young
The Sixth Sense -
Paisley Rekdal
A Peacock in a Cage -
Paisley Rekdal
Mortal Love -
David J. Daniels
This Is the Pink -
Caki Wilkinson
Via Negativa -
Caki Wilkinson
Welcome to Pleasant Bluff
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Carl Phillips
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Fall 2013
Vol. XXXV No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2013 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize For Young Writers
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Natalie Shapero
Young Poets Introduction -
Ian Burnette
Full Blood -
Alicia Lai
Saung -
Anne Hucks
Mobile
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Natalie Shapero
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Fiction
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T. C. Boyle
Slate Mountain -
Austin Smith
Cicadas -
Alex Miller
Teetering -
Karen Brown
The Authoress -
Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
Today Is the Day -
Meaghan Winter
Shame Story -
Robert Coover
The Dance of the Annunciation -
Jackie Gorman
Blood Rules -
Jeffrey Condran
Building Cities in the Desert
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T. C. Boyle
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Nonfiction
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Marina Tsvetaeva
Mon frère féminin: Letter to the Amazon -
Mark Gustafson
Captain Robert Bly, Ortega y Gasset, and the Buddha on the Road
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Marina Tsvetaeva
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Poetry
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Roger Desy
take a deer -
Ted Genoways
The Diaper Pin -
Brenda Hillman
Very Far Back in This Life -
Melissa Kwasny
Letter to the Soul -
Tomaž Šalamun
Prayer for Bread -
Brian Teare
Clear Water Renga -
Clare Rossini
A Duet in Mud Season -
Gail Hanlon
For Love -
Gail Hanlon
Future Perfect -
Corey Van Landingham
Elegy in Which I Refuse to Turn Away -
Jeremiah Childers
Origin Myth -
John Gallaher
In a Landscape: XII -
Alex Lemon
Maybe You’ll Be Young and Pretty Forever -
Brian Tierney
Infidelity -
Lee Sharkey
First Song -
Lee Sharkey
A Patient Word -
Lindsay Turner
The Mockingbird -
Lindsay Turner
Late Afternoon into Evening -
Janice N. Harrington
Defeat
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Roger Desy
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Summer 2013
Vol. XXXV No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Adam Stumacher
Refuge -
Nick White
The Exaggerations -
Rachel Swearingen
The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves -
Chris Offutt
Deck -
Mark Jacobs
Snow Beers -
Emily Anderson
Calliope
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Adam Stumacher
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Nonfiction
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Aaron Gilbreath
This Is* -
Elizabeth Arnold
Fact and Feeling: Strategies toward a Disciplined Lyric -
Lucas Mann
Kindvayz: An Essay in One Act -
Jeffrey Meyers
Thomas Mann’s Artist-Stories
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Aaron Gilbreath
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Poetry
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Vona Groarke
The White Garden -
Jennifer Grotz
The Elm Tree -
Tahar Ben Jelloun
[He who knows the geography of feelings] -
Bruce Beasley
Who Taketh Away -
Keith Ekiss
Separate City: Prose Poems: In Which White Horses Appear -
Keith Ekiss
Separate City: Prose Poems: Explaining Wingrove -
Keith Ekiss
Separate City: Prose Poems: Lives I’ll Never Live (for Minor White) -
Keith Ekiss
Separate City: Prose Poems: Into the City -
Keith Ekiss
Separate City: Prose Poems: The End -
Steve Gehrke
Othello Syndrome -
Rachel Zucker
Mindful -
Rachel Zucker
Just off the Road near Lynchburg, Virginia -
Rachel Zucker
That Great Diaspora -
Jamaal May
The Hum of Zug Island -
Jamaal May
The Sky, Now Black with Birds -
Elizabeth Arnold
Like Water Flowing -
Chard deNiord
Chains -
Karen An-hwei Lee
Perfume Enfleurage as Awareness -
Karen An-hwei Lee
On Radiolucence -
Greg Wrenn
From a Ship’s Interior
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Vona Groarke
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Spring 2013
Vol. XXXV No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Chinelo Okparanta
On Ohaeto Street -
Nona Caspers
Reception -
Amina Gautier
Now We Will Be Happy -
Aisha Gawad
Waking Luna -
Pamela Painter
Hindsight -
Mia McKenzie
Illegitimate
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Chinelo Okparanta
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Nonfiction
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Linda Bamber
The Miracle of My Freedom -
Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
A Messenger of Ill Tidings -
William Giraldi
Bloomian Stride -
Jefferson Hunter
James Joyce, Walther Ruttmann, and City Symphonies
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Linda Bamber
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Poetry
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Tomas Tranströmer
Conflict -
Tomas Tranströmer
Walking Running Crawling -
Tomas Tranströmer
Sketch in October -
Tomas Tranströmer
To Friends behind a Border -
Tomas Tranströmer
C Major -
Carol Frost
Florida -
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Elegy with a City in It -
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Crimson -
Leah Falk
Is There Anywhere You Wouldn’t Go Alone? -
Solmaz Sharif
Personal Effects -
Emmanuel Moses
from “Preludes and Fugues: The Tree of the World” -
Moe Zaw
Moonless Night -
Maung Chaw Nwe
Harbor -
Maung Yu Py
Under the Great Ice Sheet -
Eaindra
Lullaby for a Night -
Zeyar Lynn
Slightly Lopsided but a More Accurate Portrait -
Moe Way
Vuvuzela -
Ma Ei
Weather Forecast - from “Postcards”
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D. A. Powell
Calling All Gods -
John Kinsella
Penillion of Cow Parsley 2 -
Clay Matthews
The Years -
Clay Matthews
The Deer Woods
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Tomas Tranströmer
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Winter 2013
Vol. XXXV No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2012 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Short Fiction Prize Introduction -
Cassie Gonzales
Sleeping Out -
Andrea Dulanto
Winter Clothes -
Madiha Sattar
Home
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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Fiction
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Zsófia Bán
Film (24/1) -
Alexander Yates
Millionaire -
Eli Waldron
Do Birds Like Television? -
Jamie Quatro
Demolition -
Asali Solomon
Cold Water for Blood Stains
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Zsófia Bán
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Nonfiction
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Jacob Newberry
A Thousand Nations -
Rebecca McClanahan
Everywhere at Once, 1903 -
Patricia Vigderman
The Real Life of the Parthenon -
Robert Hollander
Diderot’s Opera with Hardly Any Singing: “Rameau’s Nephew” -
Joelle Biele
Here and There: Wislawa Szymborska and the Grand Narrative
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Jacob Newberry
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Poetry
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Grace Schulman
Hickories -
Adam Giannelli
Garland -
Adam Giannelli
The Opposite of Sugar -
Adam Giannelli
Fern and Shadow -
Atsuro Riley
In Which -
Atsuro Riley
Call -
Eamon Grennan
Dead Redtail -
Eamon Grennan
Ah Yes -
Eamon Grennan
Trees Abiding -
Eamon Grennan
After Rain -
Cynthia Cruz
The Flooding Subject -
Cynthia Cruz
The Billowing -
Cynthia Cruz
Weltschmerz -
Dan Beachy-Quick
Primer -
Andrew Hudgins
Lord Byron’s Boots -
Andrew Hudgins
Death Mask of Sargon -
Lo Kwa Mei-en
“Canis lupus” Familiar Song of Songs -
Carolina Ebeid
Aher, in a Vale of Asters -
Carolina Ebeid
Aher, the Other, at the Ear of God -
Amy McCann
Prayer -
Amy McCann
Let Them Be Left -
Rebecca Givens Rolland
Presence -
Rebecca Givens Rolland
Storm -
Traci Brimhall
To Survive the Revolution -
Emilia Phillips
Sublimation
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Grace Schulman
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Fall 2012
Vol. XXXIV No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2012 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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David Baker
Introduction: 2012 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers -
Victoria White
Elephant Grave -
Truman Zhang
Dear Poet -
Nandita Karambelkar
Rangoli
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David Baker
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Fiction
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SA Afolabi
Ezekiel -
Michele Christle
Lagon Bleu -
Pam Durban
Hush -
Ruth Joffre
Go West, and Grow Up - Private: Hotel des Balances
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Christian Michener
Marionette -
Matthew Eck
Sexton
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SA Afolabi
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Nonfiction
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James Longenbach
Feeling Tense -
Kimberly Meyer
Demeter and Persephone in the Heartland -
Bruce Bond
Authenticity and the Myth of the Lyric Subject: The Summons of Olson’s Legacy
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James Longenbach
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Poetry
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Irene McKinney
Plangent -
Stephen Dunn
The Obvious -
Katie Peterson
Elegy -
Katie Peterson
Rest -
Meena Alexander
Cobblestones & Heels -
Sherod Santos
Out of the World There Passed a Soul -
Arthur Sze
The Unfolding Center -
Edward Mayes
Frances in Fitzgerald at the Abattoir -
Cecily Parks
Hurricane Song -
Cecily Parks
Dancing with the Doctor -
Cecily Parks
When I Was Thoreau at Night -
Mary Ann Samyn
Stupidity, Crabbiness, Moorings & Love -
Mary Ann Samyn
Long Sunday -
Christopher Phelps
Stars by Other Means -
Victoria Chang
Edward Hopper’s “Automat” -
Victoria Chang
We are afraid to be afraid too afraid to be us afraid if we are us are afraid of
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Irene McKinney
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Reviews
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Amit Majmudar
George Steiner, Last of the Europeans -
Jeffrey Meyers
Citadel of Integrity
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Amit Majmudar
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Summer 2012
Vol. XXXIV No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Drama
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Michael Pearce
Fat Sal’s Café
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Michael Pearce
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Fiction
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Amit Majmudar
Excerpt from “Riven: A Novel” -
Stephen Taylor
Driving in Snow -
George Singleton
Humans Being -
Judy Troy
My Buried Life -
Hugh Sheehy
Meat and Mouth -
Jameelah Lang
Make a Good Guess
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Amit Majmudar
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Nonfiction
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George Steiner
Fragments (Somewhat Charred) -
Rebecca McClanahan
Ginkgo Song -
Youssef Rakha
In Extremis: Literature and Revolution in Contemporary Cairo (An Oriental Essay in Seven Parts) -
Jeffrey Meyers
Lowell’s Politics: Ambivalence and Commitment
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George Steiner
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Poetry
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Roger Desy
Winter Famine -
Stanley Plumly
Four Hundred Mourners -
Stanley Plumly
Afterward -
Stanley Plumly
From the Window of the Quiet Car -
Wyatt Prunty
Reading the Map -
Debra Allbery
Ledger -
Bob Hicok
Elegy owed -
Rosanna Warren
At Villeneuve-les-Maguelone -
Mark Halliday
There We Were -
Jake Adam York
Cry of the Occasion -
Lilah Hegnauer
Pie Bird -
Jericho Brown
The Rest We Deserve
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Roger Desy
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Spring 2012
Vol. XXXIV No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Tania James
What to Do with Henry -
Nhi Huynh
First Confession -
Shahriar Mandanipour
King of the Graveyard -
Luke Mogelson
Sea Bass -
Derek Palacio
Sugarcane
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Tania James
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Nonfiction
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Suzanne Farrell Smith
Bridges and Tunnels -
Linda Gregerson
Handedness -
Rusty Morrison
‘She Encouraged the Separation’—Poetry and Gravity -
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Selections from Jean Genet -
Amit Majmudar
George Steiner and the Quest for Mystical Union
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Suzanne Farrell Smith
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Poetry
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John Koethe
Watchful Waiting -
Yusef Komunyakaa
Always a Way -
Yusef Komunyakaa
A Prayer -
Yusef Komunyakaa
K’rar -
Danielle Pafunda
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison -
Ghassan Zaqtan
Like a Dream at Noon -
Kara Candito
Little Testament -
Kara Candito
Initiation #5: Lorca -
Kevin Prufer
Elegy and Comfort -
J. Allyn Rosser
Quake -
J. Allyn Rosser
Housing the Id -
J. Allyn Rosser
Rodin: “Crouching Woman” -
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
Women of the Plain -
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
The Last Night of the Pharmacist’s Wife -
Hugh Martin
Spring in Jalula -
Adrienne Su
Backyard -
Michael Ryan
Campus Vagrant -
Sandra McPherson
Peace Sign -
Sandra McPherson
Interior Accents, Denmark
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John Koethe
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