January 1, 2009
Birch, Pine, Palm
1. I want to make love to old men, to kissThem the way you’d kiss a tree. You’dNo more expect the tree to move Than to die. The tree would […]
January 1, 2009
If
The purpose I mean is, to show what reason we have for believing that there are in the constitution of things fixed laws according to which events happen.—Richard Price, 1763 […]
January 1, 2009
Trio
They were both good men,Only amplified. As if some infinite Operation were performed: if N =Love, then between Lancelot, Arthur andGuinevere, N (xt) = [Lt1, At2 ,Gt1 … ], where […]
January 1, 2009
New
The patient: “He greeted her several timesAs if she had just arrived.” I identified.It is indeed a gift—both maddening andAwful—to be seen as Always new,To evoke exactlyThe same astonishmentAt eleven […]
January 1, 2009
Postcards
1. Belgium, outside Liège Fruit in Europe is sweetBut not sweeter. The flowersAre petite; no smaller. I tell you this my nieceWho was just born becauseYou cannot be born in […]
January 1, 2009
On Kascha Semonovitch
For the last decade The Kenyon Review has been pleased to offer this feature of New Voices. Here we focus on writers who are just emerging in the publishing world […]
April 1, 2005
On Priscilla Sneff’s “O Woolly City”
Winner of the 2004 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry As poetry editor of this magazine, I am pleased to serve as the continuing judge of the Kenyon Review / […]
April 1, 2005
From “O Woolly City”
Winner of the 2004 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry THE YEAR OF THE CITY ONE Blank night, bank of the Charles, dark dormitoria astir; O remsleepers. He Is […]
October 1, 2004
Generations: An Excerpt from “Novella”
An Excerpt from Novella Let me tell you something, Berry Parker.” Novella Wheeler took a drag on her cigarette and blew the smoke into his face. “There are two things […]
April 1, 2004
From “Complaint in the Garden”
Winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry RAIN This is the rain, the rain in north Florida: rain on the fanned fronds of the saw palmetto; […]
April 1, 2004
On Randall Mann’s “Complaint in the Garden”: Winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry
This is the third year of The Kenyon Review’s sponsorship of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry, an annual book award given by Zoo Press to a poet for the […]
April 1, 2003
On Christopher Cessac’s “Republic Sublime”
Winner of the 2002 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry Two years ago The Kenyon Review entered into a relationship with a new independent book publisher, Zoo Press, located in […]