March 19, 2025
Metro Booming
All my life, schizoid Lagos drivers have taught me to treat honking as I might birdcall: the landscape talking back. Moonlight-drunk or clear-eyed, the Lagos driver will honk through his […]
March 19, 2025
How to Give Directions to a Nigerian in America
Never begin with “Head east along Lafayette Road.” East to us recalls the states Imo, Enugu, Anambra, Abia, Ebonyi, Cross River, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Benue, and parts of Kogi. […]
March 18, 2025
Saudade for Being a Bug
The Kenyon Review · “Saudade de ser bicho/ Saudade for Being a Bug” by Martha Riva Palacio Obón tr. Will Morningstar Saudade is a little like hunger. It passes only […]
March 18, 2025
Sensational Spelling
Your Captain says: Put your head on your knees. Your Captain says: Put your head in your hands. Captain says: Put your hands on your head. Put your […]
March 18, 2025
Field Notes from a Body
i. Bemidji in June, and the heat flattened everything. The tall grass was brittle and bowing, the sky a hardboiled blue. I was eight then, maybe nine, and patterned from […]
March 18, 2025
Driving Around Central Ohio in my Dad’s ’07 Chevy Listening to the CDs of my Youth; or, Put the Past Away; or, August and Everything After
I’m driving around central Ohio in my dad’s ’07 Chevy listening to the CDs of my youth. I’m not sure how I got here. OK, that’s a lie. I know […]
February 24, 2025
Abu Jamil’s House: Portraits of Gaza
Some afternoons, I went with Noura, Nahed, and a few other women and their children from Abu Jamil Street to a half-demolished home, the last thing standing before the sand, […]
February 18, 2025
Lynda Ty-Casper’s “A Small Party in a Garden”
Linda Ty-Casper’s short fiction “A Small Party in a Garden,” published in the Summer 1992 issue of The Kenyon Review, transports the reader, no matter where or when they’re reading […]
February 14, 2025
In Re-Memoriam
The Kenyon Review · “In Re-memoriam” by Cynthia Nwakudu Did we fail you, Beautiful Son, because we did not fight long enough, there where you were born? Did not love […]
February 12, 2025
from From Nima On: A Selection of Contemporary Iranian Poetry
1. In my blank verse poems, I conceive of meter and rhyme differently. When I lengthen or shorten various lines, it’s not based on whim or fancy. Even in the […]
February 4, 2025
The Iron Lung
The Kenyon Review · “The Iron Lung” by Robin Babb I started taking a mixed martial arts class, or MMA, at my university this semester. I’d been wanting to take […]
February 4, 2025
Germination Protocol
In the entrance of the Millennium Seed Bank, in the southwest of England, there is a wall filled with seeds. The wall is divided into units, each of which displays […]