July 4, 2019
Detroit, 1969
Hamburgers and watermelon. Mad Dog 20/20 on boyfriend Phil’s breath. That summer, Marsha and I sold Black Panther Party newspapers downtown, hustling in front of Hudson’s like the revolutionary vanguard […]
July 3, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – July
Sometimes a mismatched couple wanders by, and the whispers begin before they’ve even passed. Meanwhile, they stroll on, blissfully unaware, as if they were the most obvious pair in the […]
July 1, 2019
“Don’t Be Coy”: A Chat With Keri Smith and Thomas Moody of Hanging Loose Press
I recently spoke with Thomas Moody and Keri Smith about the editorial work they do for Hanging Loose Press, an indie publisher with an amazing literary history. Hanging Loose has […]
July 1, 2019
Why We Chose It
“In the Presence of God I Make This Vow,” by Hasanthika Sirisena appears in the May/June 2019 issue of KROnline. Hasanthika Sirisena’s essay, “In the Presence of God I Make […]
June 29, 2019
“I start from a place of extreme openness”: A Conversation with Cassandra Cleghorn
Cassandra Cleghorn’s Four Weathercocks was published in 2016 by Marick Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry International, Colorado Review, Boston Review, Field and […]
June 29, 2019
Dispatch from a Bad Day
I started writing this on my phone in the evening of what had been a terrible day. I was at the gym, on the elliptical, when I opened the Notes […]
June 28, 2019
Checking Your Pedagogical Receipts
Lesson planning is by nature a fraught endeavor. It necessitates thinking not just about the content of the class but the shape of the course as a whole, the juxtaposition […]
June 27, 2019
Amie Souza Reilly Recommends: “A Gift Basket for Budding Feminists”
Amie Souza Reilly teaches in the English Department at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She is the Feminist Fridays blogger at The Adroit Journal and publishes creative nonfiction and […]
June 26, 2019
Verve {in} Verse: In Conversation with Jared Harél
Note: Verve {in} Verse is my poet-focused feature here at The Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off the page. […]
June 26, 2019
Music and Silence: A Conversation with Kelly J. Beard
Kelly J. Beard’s first full-length memoir, An Imperfect Rapture, won the 2017 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Before becoming an author, Kelly practiced employment discrimination law in the […]
June 25, 2019
In Pursuit of Rapture: An Interview with Molly Reid
In 2017, I spent a week teaching a prose workshop at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. It was there that I met Molly Reid, a writer and doctoral student who […]
June 25, 2019
Risk and Reward: A Conversation with Andrew Farkas
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), and two short fiction collections: Sunsphere (BlazeVOX Books) and Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press). His work has […]