April 19, 2019
The Blank Page
Last week, I sat down to finally start the new short story that had been percolating in my mind for months. Beyond the story’s premise, I hadn’t settled on much […]
April 18, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Philip Brady of Etruscan Press
Philip Brady’s most recent book is a collection of essays, Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City (University of Tennessee Press, 2019). His most recent book of poetry is To Banquet with […]
April 13, 2019
Review: Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems
Tagore, Rabindranath. Selected Poems. Translated by William Radice. Penguin Modern Classics (India), 208 pages. Some writers write different things the same way over and over again. All of Emily […]
April 12, 2019
“Rape is Not Just a Girl Problem”: A Conversation With Melissa Ostrom
Melissa Ostrom has written two YA novels, The Beloved Wild (Feiwel & Friends, March 2018) and Unleaving (Feiwel & Friends, March 2019). Her writing has also appeared in The Florida […]
April 11, 2019
“This thing I use to stay alive” – An Interview with Poet Husnaa Hashim
Husnaa Hashim is the author of Honey Sequence published by The Head & The Hand, a nonprofit, independent publishing company and writers’ workshop based in Philadelphia. She was the 2017-2018 Youth […]
April 8, 2019
Why We Chose It
“Four Poems from Frayer,” by Marie-Andrée Gill and translated from French by Kristen Renee Miller, appears in the Mar/Apr 2019 issue of the Kenyon Review. Why did we choose it? […]
April 8, 2019
Associate Spotlight: Charlotte Freccia ’19
Charlotte Freccia ’19, from Columbus, Ohio, is an English major with a creative writing emphasis in fiction. She’s one of the Kenyon Review‘s social media interns, and in this interview, […]
April 5, 2019
On Mixed Metaphors in Gorgani’s Vis and Ramin
To almost all writers today, the term “mixed metaphor” has only negative connotations, referring to a classic type of bad and thoughtless writing, when a writer without realizing it employs […]
April 4, 2019
Putting at Issue the Very Subject of Language: A Conversation With Julie Tetel
Julie Tetel has made a career out of studying the structures of human connection, whether it be through her many romance novels or her celebrated scholarly works on linguistics. Tetel […]
April 3, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Janaka Stucky of Black Ocean
Janaka Stucky is a mystic poet, performer, and founding editor of the award-winning press, Black Ocean. He is the author of four poetry collections, is a two-time National Haiku Champion, […]
April 2, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – April
Relax. This is not a column about iambic pentameter. This is a column about the secret history of the English language. But the story of English happens to be the story […]
March 30, 2019
Review: Kural by Tiruvalluvar
Tiruvalluvar. Kural. Translated and edited with an Introduction by P. S. Sundaram. Penguin Classics India, 1990. 168 pages. The Kural generally goes by the title Tirukural, where the “Tiru” […]