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February 22, 2017
Six Sundays toward a Seventh (21 February-3 April, 1988)
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Autumn, 1989, Vol. XI, No. 4 If during meditation our thoughts move to persons who are near to us or to those we are […]
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February 8, 2017
Hope
from the Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1991, Vol. XIII, No. 2 . . . is the thing with feathers— Dickinson Too much torque on a wing, and the branches […]
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February 2, 2017
From Stab Wounds
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Autumn 1992, Vol. XIV, No. 4 The Things He Turns To Gold My little brother slams into our bedroom in the middle of The […]
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January 5, 2017
The Dream-singing Elegy
From the Kenyon Review, Winter 1944, Vol. VI, No. 1 Darkness giving us dream’s black unity. Images in procession start to flow among the river-currents down the years of judgment […]
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Poetry
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Samuel Amadon
Final Tea with Hoon -
L. S. Klatt
Garden Noises; The Lord I Did Not Want -
Amit Majmudar
Resurrection: His Hands -
Philip Schaefer
The Unaccounted
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Samuel Amadon
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Fiction
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Cara Blue Adams
Said Yes -
Lanre Akinsiku
Boomerang -
Ron Carlson
His Hair Was on Fire -
Christine Ma-Kellams
Small Words in a Large World -
Angela Woodward
Flinching
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Cara Blue Adams
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Nonfiction
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Czesław Miłosz
From the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference -
John Rodden
Profess or Perish? -
Roger Rosenblatt
Dead Bird
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Czesław Miłosz
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Drama
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Rachel Joseph
Buried
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Rachel Joseph
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Poetry
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Emily Geminder
Interior with Ghost -
Anna Meister
For Once -
Corey Miller
Etude for Your Downs and Ups
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Emily Geminder
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Fiction
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Tricia Bauer
Outage -
Matt Denis
Getting Free -
Marcelle Heath
Nine Times Gretchen King Is Mistaken on July 12, 1980 -
Zea Thynne
Where Tears Run
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Tricia Bauer
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Nonfiction
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Marcia Aldrich
The Rejection -
Mary Margaret Alvarado
There is Nothing Left to Carry Over -
Jonathan Farmer
“All We Can Say”: On Politics
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Marcia Aldrich
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Interview
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October 26, 2016
Letter to His Brother
From the Kenyon Review, Summer 1939, Vol. I, No. 3 The night is on these hills, and some can sleep. Some stare into the dark, some walk. Only the sound […]
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October 18, 2016
Halloween
From the Kenyon Review, Autumn 1950, Vol. XII, No. 4 Tonight our streets are filled With beardless pirates and their high-heeled wives Who own no maps of treasure and have […]
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October 13, 2016
From Through the Ivory Gate
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1992, Vol. XIV, No. 2 Virginia turned her car out of the Saferstein Tower parking lot and headed down Copley Hill. She decided […]
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September 28, 2016
Message in a Bottle
From the Kenyon Review, Spring 1962, Vol. XXIV, No. 2 There are days when the world pauses, gets stuck, senselessly, like one of those machines that ought to give cigarettes […]
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Poetry
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Jordie Albiston
scandium; lithium; cadmium; zirconium -
R. M. Haines
Medusae (II) -
Laura Kolbe
Dissecting Blade
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Jordie Albiston
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Fiction
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L. Shapley Bassen
What Can the Matter Be? -
Lee Conell
Unit Cell -
Benjamin Kolp
Between Stars
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L. Shapley Bassen
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Drama
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Karen Malpede
Extreme Whether: Act I
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Karen Malpede
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Review
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Hilda Johnston
The Prodigious Energy of Life
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Hilda Johnston
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Nonfiction
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Corrina Carter
The Thylacine: A Striped Haunting -
Jonathan Farmer
“All We Can Say”: On Politics -
E. A. Farro
Spartina -
Jennifer Bowen Hicks
An Inquiry into Epigenetics -
Shayla Love
Crystalline -
Karen Luper
Magnet -
Ravi Mangla
The Great Unknown -
Natalie Mesnard and Patrick Donald Watson
The Half-Sacred Disease -
Sarah Rose Nordgren
On the Fabric of the Body -
Boyd Norton
Excerpt from Tickling the Dragon’s Tail: How I Once Blew Up a Nuclear Reactor and Went on to Save the World’s Wild Places -
Joseph Osmundson
The Selfish Queen -
Dawne Shand
The Garden of Biodiversity’s Snake -
Jamie Zvirzdin
Observations of a Science Editor: If Romantic Scientists Pilfered Fiction’s Toolbox, You Can Too
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Corrina Carter
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September 1, 2016
Map of the New World
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1981, Vol. III, No. 1 I. Dragons once, with webbed hands, serrated fins, circled this unknown sea. Their scales flake now like scurf, […]
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