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April 1, 2015
Broken-off Twig Budding Out in the Path
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1997, Vol. XIX, No. 2 Only the slightest thaw, and something plops in the water that clears. It may be nothing that swims, […]
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Poetry
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William Brewer
Voices as of Lions Coming Down -
Laura Carter
Schuyler -
René Char translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Sade, Love Finally Saved from the Mud of the Sky, This Legacy Will Suffice for Men Against Hunger -
Lisa Fay Coutley
Researchers Find Mice Pass On Trauma to Subsequent Generations; Delayed Communiqué from Poet to Astronaut -
Kerry James Evans
Highway 45 Truck Stop -
Doyali Farah Islam
susiya: double sonnet 7 -
Krzysztof Jaworski translated by Benjamin Paloff
Times Are Tough -
Circe Maia translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Prometheus (From a Story by Kafka) -
Erica Mena
Theories of Dark I -
Allyson Paty
A Rite; Self Monument -
Anzhelina Polonskaya translated by Andrew Wachtel
Letters to Sappho -
Maggie Smith
Reading the Train Book, I Think of Lisa -
Karenne Wood
The Naming
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William Brewer
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Fiction
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Kathy Anderson
Bull -
Sara Reish Desmond
Cicadas -
Jane Feaver
Spider -
Ruth Galm
“New Mexico, 1957” -
Rin Kelly
The Best-Known Unknown People Who Maybe Drew Breath Upon the Planet -
Anna Kovatcheva
The Country is Its Birds -
Che Yeun
The Quiet Thing
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Kathy Anderson
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Drama
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Atar Hadari
I Begin to Rehearse My Death
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Atar Hadari
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Essay
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Allison K Williams
Buddha Nature
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Allison K Williams
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Review
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Mike Broida
The Art of Losing: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng -
Melissa Dickey
Giving Voice to the Domestic Surreal: A Review of Gro Dahle’s A Hundred Thousand Hours -
Daniel Green
The Materiality of the Medium: On Steve Tomasula -
Robert Kostuck
On Habitation: Collected Poems by Sam Hamill -
Ben Purkert
Elegy Meets Selfie: Contextualizing Sina Queyras’s M x T -
Rachel Richardson
Inside the Body, Everything’s Real: The Poetics of Maternity and Mortality -
Grace Schulman
Strangers and Friends: On Marilyn Hacker’s A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2013 -
Pierce Scranton, Jr.
Eileen’s Ashes: Matthew Thomas’s We Are Not Ourselves -
Ida Stewart
“Exposing the figure of the wood”: Michelle Taransky’s Sorry Was in the Woods -
Lindsay Turner
Contemplating Apocalypse: On the Work of Etel Adnan -
Keith Wilhite
Occasions for Insight: On Karin Lin-Greenberg’s Faulty Predictions
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Mike Broida
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February 27, 2015
A Winter-Piece to a Friend Away
From The Kenyon Review, Spring 1948, Vol. X, No. 2. Your letter came. — Glutted the earth & cold With rains long heavy, follows intense frost; Snow howls and hides […]
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February 6, 2015
The Maker of Parables
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1990, Vol. XII, No. 2 M., the maker of parables, a small dwarfish delicately built man with shining dark eyes, lived inside a […]
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Poetry
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Kwame Dawes
Making a Deal -
Tarfia Faizullah
The Hidden Glossary of Solace -
Aaron Krol
Magic in the World -
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Getting the Hero to Speak -
Amish Trivedi
Six Poems -
Patrick Whitfill
Curiosity (XXVIII); Curiosity (XXXI); Curiosity (XXXVI)
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Kwame Dawes
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Fiction
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Saikat Majumdar
The Firebird -
Mary O’Donoghue
The Rakes of Mallow -
Jill Rosenberg
This is Fatherhood -
Natalia Theodoridou
The Ravens’ Sister -
Siamak Vossoughi
Shoes
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Saikat Majumdar
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Conversation
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Ilan Stavans and William P. Childers
Tweeting at Windmills: Don Quixote in the Twenty-first Century
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Ilan Stavans and William P. Childers
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Essay
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Amy Benson
A Clear Cut -
Brian Doyle
The Lake -
Bret Lott
On Posterity
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Amy Benson
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Review
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Vanessa Blakeslee
Treading the Lyrical Tightrope: The Understory by Pamela Erens -
Kate Fox
On Guinevere in Baltimore by Shelley Puhak -
Deborah Helen Garfinkle
In the Belly of the Baobab: Wilma Stockenström’s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree -
John James
“Learn your lesson/from the calf”: Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Render / An Apocalypse -
John Pursley III
“A Thought in Which I Do Not Have a Face”: Julie Carr’s Rag -
Benjamin Woodard
The Sound and the Furry: When Mystical Creatures Attack!
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Vanessa Blakeslee
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Poetry
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besmilr brigham
Giacometti: The Soul; For the Phosphorous Heart -
Judy Brown
The Astronauts; The Piñata -
Cynthia Cruz
The Last Film in the World -
Christopher Kempf
Information Age -
Sally Wen Mao
Close Encounters of the Liminal Kind -
Matthew Minicucci
What we’re talking about here; Book Twenty-Five -
Dean Rader
Relational Self-Portrait -
Joshua Rivkin
Flood
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besmilr brigham
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Fiction
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A. Naji Bakhti
Space -
Andrei Gelasimov translated by Sylvia Maizell
Paradise Found—A Blog -
Kit Haggard
Dark -
Richard Lange
After All -
Kirk Nesset
Tower -
Lois Taylor
Blue Bossa
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A. Naji Bakhti
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Drama
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Atar Hadari
Jailbird
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Atar Hadari
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Essay
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S. Li
Criticism and Self-Criticism -
Khaled Mattawa
Identity, Power, and a Prayer to Our Lady of Repatriation: On Translating and Writing Poetry -
Khaled Mattawa
Meet the Poet-Stranger: Three Stories and Their Aftermath -
Khaled Mattawa
On the Poet’s Presence: Thinking Back, Thinking Forth, and Thinking Darwish and Tagore -
Linwood Rumney
After Seeing Amour -
Kilby Smith-McGregor
Other People’s Words: in friendship
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S. Li
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Review
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Gabriel Blackwell
What Keeps Me In?: Selfhood in Sarah Blackman’s Mother Box -
Katy Didden
Untamed Elegy: A Review of Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Headwaters -
John Domini
Golden State: Edan Lepucki’s California -
Laura Farmer
On Rachel Cantor’s A Highly Unlikely Scenario: Or, a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World -
Deborah Helen Garfinkle
A Life and Death of Her Own: Marcelle Sauvageot’s Commentary: (A Tale) -
Lauren Hilger
“Tin gods and all”: Lilah Hegnauer’s Pantry -
Anna Journey
The Great Past Tense: On Sean Bishop’s The Night We’re Not Sleeping In -
Anna Journey
The Queer Baroque: On Saeed Jones’s Prelude to Bruise -
Jenn Mar
Human Instincts: Solipsism and Anomie in All My Friends -
Nathaniel Popkin
We Tell Ourselves Stories: Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams
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Gabriel Blackwell
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August 9, 2014
The Kenyon Review Podcast
Click on the link below to subscribe to our iTunes feed. New podcasts are posted every month. Recent featured interview guests include: Maureen McClane, Ann Patchett, and Shane McCrae.
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Poetry
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Daniel Corrie
Rising, Opening, Encompassing -
Amit Majmudar
1914: The Name Game -
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar -
Meghan Privitello
The Minotaur; ENEMIES, LOVE YOUR -
Hannah Saiz
The Triangle -
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Anchor -
Ryan Teitman
Visitations -
Kenny Williams
Filler Material; The Sunbath -
Phillip B. Williams
Birth of the Doppelgänger
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Daniel Corrie
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Fiction
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Molia Dumbleton
If She Were to Lay Down -
Melissa Goodrich
Super -
Hiba Krisht
The Witnessing -
Ted McLoof
Anhedonia -
Meghan Tear Plummer
Charley, Bayou -
Sofi Stambo
Goods -
Mika Taylor
A Reader
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Molia Dumbleton
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Essay
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Marcia Aldrich
Autumn Sonata -
Lance Larsen
Riding the Bus
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Marcia Aldrich
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Drama
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Yasmine Beverly Rana
Fauna and Blood
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Yasmine Beverly Rana
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Interview
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Karen Malpede
A Conversation with Darragh McKeon -
Ronald A. Sharp
A Conversation with Philip Schultz
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Karen Malpede
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Review
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Joelle Biele
“Don’t You Blow Your Trumpet until You Hear from Me”: T. J. Jarrett’s Ain’t No Grave -
Goldie Goldbloom
The Unwanted: Death and Decay in the Americas -
Daniel Green
Complete Fictions: On the Rewritings of Gabriel Blackwell -
Matthew Jakubowski
Self-Portrait with Chokehold: Joanna Howard’s Foreign Correspondent -
Anna Journey
The River’s Asylum: Joshua Poteat’s Steampunk Pastoral -
Jacqueline Kolosov
What We Are Able to Hold -
Mike Puican
The Personal and the Universal: Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav -
Ronald A. Sharp
On Philip Schultz’s The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse -
Lindsay Turner
All sunless gestures will remain oblique”: On Jackqueline Frost’s The Antidote
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Joelle Biele
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Poetry
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Lisa Ampleman
Kant the Nephrologist -
Melissa Barrett
Our Hearts Knitting Together, Unholy -
Gillian Conoley
Plath and Sexton -
Jérôme Luc Martin
The Pines; The Hunter Fresco -
Stephen Morrow
The New Buoyancy -
Brianna Noll
Everything Beautiful Has a Name -
Julie Sophia Paegle
Rx Redux; Lake Mead Ticker Tape -
Maya Catherine Popa
Sinaia, Romania -
Nathan Slinker
Springtime on the Family Farm; A Description of Town
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Lisa Ampleman
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Fiction
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Adam Davies
Sheetman -
Federico Falco translated by Sarah Viren
Elephants -
Caitlin Fitzpatrick
Such Revenges -
J.D. Hibbitts
Let What Comes Natural Fly -
E.J. Levy
Talk to Her -
T. Kira Madden
Souvenirs: An Excerpt -
Yannick Murphy
Beauty Shot -
Leigh Camacho Rourks
The Plague
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Adam Davies
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Essay
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Jacob M. Appel
Sudden Death: A Eulogy -
T. Clutch Fleischmann
A Volume of Loss -
A. Molotkov
The Endless Moon
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Jacob M. Appel
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Review
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Vanessa Blakeslee
In the Belly of the Beast: Andri Snær Magnason’s LoveStar -
Scott Esposito
We Are All the Result of Chaos: Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding -
Emma Garman
A Debut Long Delayed: Muriel Rukeyser’s Savage Coast -
Anna Journey
Burlesquing the Midwestern Gothic: On Mary Biddinger’s O Holy Insurgency -
Benjamin Landry
Into Focus: Brenda Shaughnessy’s Our Andromeda -
Ryan McDermott
History Boys: William Gass’s Middle C -
A’Dora Phillips
Grief’s Dark Universe: The Art of Fado in A Brief History of Yes and Bough Down -
Ben Purkert
Music In Motion: If One Of Us Should Fall -
Roy Scranton
Not the Man But the Shadow He Leaves Behind: Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer -
John Steen
Threat at the Fête: Dan Magers’ Partyknife -
Ryan Teitman
One Kind of Menagerie: A Review of Ted Sanders’ No Animals We Could Name
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Vanessa Blakeslee
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January 14, 2014
Weekend Reads
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Poetry
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Sarah Blackman
New Myths for the Republic of Family Life -
Danielle Cadena Deulen
We Are Bored; American Curse -
Kimiko Hahn
Circles and Breasts -
George Kalamaras
Water Museum -
Drew Milne
refrains -
Liz Robbins
[the crab]; [the ram] -
William Wright and Adam Vines
The Bloom, the Furnace, the Stars: An Elegy for Jake Adam York -
John York
Fifty Cents
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Sarah Blackman
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Fiction
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Suzen Rita Chang
Dignity -
Alberto Chimal
The Waterfall -
Michael Czyzniejewski
The Nudist Contemplates Cannibalism -
Lindsey Drager
The History of Risk and Restlessness -
Mai Nardone
What You Bargained For -
Nance Van Winckel
Excerpts from the novel EVER YRS
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Suzen Rita Chang
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Essay
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Mylène Dressler
Live Toy, Dead Toy -
Gary Fincke
The Physics of Desire -
Anne Germanacos
Worms, or AZ, my intellectual hero, wears a wig -
K. E. Ogden
Self-Portrait as Playlists
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Mylène Dressler
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Review
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Gabriel Blackwell
On Love Among the Particles by Norman Lock -
Vanessa Blakeslee
End of the Road: Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane -
Amy Butcher
The Art of Losing: Sarah Manguso’s The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend -
Anna Journey
Gleaned from a Vacancy: On Victoria Chang’s The Boss -
Jacqueline Kolosov
Intolerable Tenderness: A Review of Mary Szybist’s Incarnadine -
Timothy Liu
On Obscenely Yours by Angelo Nikolopoulos -
Jenn Mar
The Art of Failure: Memory and Apartheid -
Maya Catherine Popa
Poems from the Mid-Apocalypse: A Review of Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall
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Gabriel Blackwell
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November 1, 2013
Roman Fall: In Memoriam
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter, 1990, Vol. XII, No. 1 I remember the bells of Santa Maria Maggiore ringing on a crisp November morning Under an undiminished blue […]
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