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

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October 1, 2009

Letter

By Felicity Sheehy

First-Prize Winner 2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers You tell me first about the three ladybugs on your kitchen window— how the light filtered under their bodies to […]

October 1, 2009

Young Poets Introduction

By David Baker

Poetry Editor 2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers This is the sixth year that we at The Kenyon Review have offered the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young […]

October 1, 2009

Ciudad

By Arbil López

Third-Prize Winner 2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers      For Mama In the morning Pittsburgh moves mechanically, rises its sun over the rivers and bridges like our public bus […]