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The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Winter 2013

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Volume VI, Number 1

Poetry

M. Shahid Alam

Two Versions of a Ghazal from Ghalib
Bruce Bond

Ginsberg; Schopenhauer; Whitman
Claudia Cortese

Hurricane Irene Fingers My Hair
Rebecca Dunham

Blowout
Shane McCrae

After the Uprising
Maggie Schwed

Country Ways
Jeanie Thompson

The Myth of W-a-t-e-r; In Which She Puts to Rest the Mirror; Encounter in Montgomery, 1918

Fiction

Brian Doyle

Chauncy Street
Janelle Garcia

How Things Might Have Gone and Other Wasted Thoughts
Scott Garson

Advent Santa
Hilary Leichter

A Typeface for Senior Citizens
Melanie Nead

Goodbye to the Small Man
Youssef Rakha

Thus Spoke Che Nawwarah: Interview with a Revolutionary
Shula Rosen

The Invisible Chassidishe Maidel (The Invisible Chassidic Girl)
Hannah Withers

Belly of the Whale

Essay

Amy Boesky

The Ghost Writes Back
Ella Finer

“The composition is different, that is certain”—Ophelia Composing Herself
Tom Hart

Great Meadows Gallery

Short Fiction Contest

Cassie Gonzales

Sleeping Out
Andrea Dulanto

Winter Clothes
Madiha Sattar

Home

Review

Dilruba Ahmed

To Open Up Another Person’s Body: C. Dale Young’s Torn
Vanessa Blakeslee

Heart of the Matter: Myfanwy Collins’ Echolocation
Darcie Dennigan and Carl Dimitri

A Pictorial Review of I Take Back the Sponge Cake
Adam Eaglin

“Begin What You Are”: On Henri Cole’s Touch
Jessica Freeman-Slade

In the (Parents’) Basement: Leigh Stein’s The Fallback Plan
Anna Journey

Watermark and Fable: On Eduardo C. Corral’s Slow Lightning
Ben Purkert

Strength, Sweetness, and More: The Available World by Ander Monson
Dan Rosenberg

What the Tapeworm Wants: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things
John Brown Spiers

“This Baggy Monster”: Gretchen E. Henderson’s Galerie de Difformité
John Steen

Crazy Badland of the Tongue: Cyrus Console’s The Odicy
Alexander Yates

Shirking the Genre Ghetto: On Lev Grossman’s The Magician King and the Fantastical Novel in 2012 <