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, 2011

Halmoni

By Hayun Cho

Runner-up 2011 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   "I can't put my life there in words."        —Kim Haksoon, former Korean "comfort woman" The first man who lifted my […]

October 1, 2011

Ripening

By Emily Nason

Runner-up 2011 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   The summer I left home, a woman next to a honeysuckle vine counted the pearl buttons of my mother's sweater. […]

October 1, 2011

Ode to Words

By Natalie Landers

First-Prize Winner 2011 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   To the times you say something just because you like the way it lies    on your tongue, or how […]

October 1, 2011

Young Poets Introduction

By David Baker

2011 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers This is the eighth year we have offered the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers here at The Kenyon Review. Our […]