March 8, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – March
“Rhymes can make sense of the world in a way that regular speech can’t.” Hip hop mogul Jay-Z (Sean Carter) says it better than I can. It’s no coincidence that […]
March 5, 2019
Gertrude Stein’s “Composition as Explanation”
The title of Gertrude Stein’s essay, “Composition as Explanation,” ostensibly contradicts her literary scheme of raising form to the level of content. The name seems to imply that this piece […]
March 5, 2019
On Novels that Span a Lifetime
There’s a famous theory (attributed to Aristotle, though in reality the result of misinterpretations of his work made by Renaissance humanists) that a good tragedy should follow the three unities, […]
March 5, 2019
The Talent Tangent
I was teaching a writing workshop not long ago when I found myself on a tangent about talent. As an aspiring writer in school, I explained, my teachers and mentors […]
March 4, 2019
Why We Chose It
“Snow Line,” by Elizabeth Brinsfield, appears in the Mar/Apr 2019 issue of the Kenyon Review. Elizabeth Brinsfield’s “Snow Line” is a quiet storm of a story. Exquisitely written, it opens […]
March 4, 2019
Join KR at AWP 2019!
Visit us March 28-30, at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. KR will be at booth #8072. Please stop by to […]
March 4, 2019
Associate Spotlight: Mollie Greenberg ’19
Mollie Greenberg ’19 is a drama and modern languages and literatures double major from Yellow Springs, Ohio. She’s a student employee, an actress, and a longtime KR Associate. She’s held […]
March 4, 2019
‘All life is the domain of poetry’: A Conversation with Terese Svoboda
A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 18 books. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the […]
March 1, 2019
Re-Reading Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland was written just ten years after the United States Constitution, and its story spans the time period between the French-Indian War and the American Revolution. The […]
February 28, 2019
“At the mercy of language”: A Conversation with Elizabeth A.I. Powell
Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize winner, selected by C.K. Williams. Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless […]
February 27, 2019
In Defense of On the Road
Two years ago, I was sitting in a Starbucks and reading On the Road (aware, of course, of the irony of reading something with such an anti-consumerist ethos in such […]
February 25, 2019
“To balance the personal and the political”: A Conversation with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang’s new book of poems, OBIT, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013) won a PEN Center USA Literary Award and a […]