August 16, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Four
This is Part Four of a series. Read parts one, two, and three. In one example of this simultaneously spatially and temporally mobile impulse, Lippi depicts a future image of […]
August 14, 2019
The Story the Storytelling Tells: A Note on the Ramayana
Every God has his consort, his corresponding Goddess—so Brahma, the Creator-God, has Saraswati, the Goddess of arts and letters, a match made in heaven, so to speak. Shiva’s consort is […]
August 14, 2019
On Capturing the Banality of History
In the first chapter of the sixth book of A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell’s twelve-book series chronicling upper-class English social life in the early twentieth century, […]
August 14, 2019
Little Monsters: On Llama Sestinas & Free Verse Poetic Forms (Part 1)
I confess, up until a few years ago, I’ve long held the belief that free verse is the ultimate expression of creation. (Prose people, wait before you lob your […]
August 13, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Three
This is the third post in a series. Read parts one and two. We can see Browning leaping back-and-forth in another instance of the poem’s ongoing battle between word and […]
August 9, 2019
We Need Fresh Perspectives: An Interview with Amy Sayre Baptista and Meagan Cass, Series Editors, Craft Chaps
This post is the sixth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
August 8, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – August
Forget the Pulitzers. Forget the MacArthur “Genius” grant, The New Yorker, and all the other laurels too. The greatest honor for a poet—and for a poem—is to be known by […]
August 7, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Two
This is Part Two. You can read Part One here. Any marriage of the visual and verbal in poetry contains its share of arguments. This struggle between the painted and […]
August 6, 2019
Playing the Long Game: An Interview with Anne Valente
In 2014, when I was studying in Bowling Green State University’s MFA program, I helped coordinate Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing. Our keynote speaker that year […]
August 5, 2019
Why We Chose It
“You Know I Want It Ice Cold,” by Rachel Heng, appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of KROnline. In prose, whether fiction or nonfiction, the second person point of view—where […]
August 5, 2019
Hashtag_Am Writing
You want to be published. In fact, you want to be published so badly that you actually begin to write instead of just talking about it. You buy fancy pens […]
August 5, 2019
Congratulations and Thanks to the 2019 Peter Taylor Fellows
Every year, the Kenyon Review awards Peter Taylor Fellowships to a select group of outstanding writers. These individuals attend our generative Writers Workshops as both participants and teaching assistants. We can’t say enough about the great […]