November 3, 2025
Neglect from a Woman with Blue Breasts
November 3, 2025
Prayers To the Buddha in My Costco Jar of Vaseline
November 3, 2025
Tiger Mom
Pay attention,Her stripes meld into celestia,brushstrokes of a forgotten god—She sprints with precision;bloodsong tincts the marrow of dusk. Hurry,harvest the sacred offal tosate the nascent fangs,purge the shadows of maliceas […]
November 3, 2025
Introduction
All of the entrants in the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers contest should know that it was very hard for me to choose these runners-up and a winner. […]
October 8, 2024
Origin Myth as Hand-Me-Down
After the May 1998 riots against Chinese IndonesiansThe year bends into the false spring. My mother throws a shadow over herself, and 1998 shivers into quiet life. The shadow is […]
October 8, 2024
Dissection of My Grandmother’s Eye
The Kenyon Review · “Dissection of my Grandmother’s Eye” by Acadia Reynolds Gloves first, I thicken my skin, plastic snaps sin-smooth on my wrists, shower comebacksbeached on my teeth like […]
October 8, 2024
son as white plant
The Kenyon Review · “son as white plant” by Cloris Shi all the women joked that when grandfather died, he left one bankrupt plant,two sole-less shoes, and three sterile wives. […]
October 8, 2024
Introduction
What are the young poets thinking and writing about? In reading this year’s brilliant submissions for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize, awarded to the very best writing by poets in […]
August 28, 2023
Because I Am Young, Stubborn, and Covered in Skin
Dad’s big boots crawl up to my knees, his coat is made of fur from an animal I can imagine unfolding in a barn a mile away. I wear it […]
August 28, 2023
Paradigm Shift
this is my coffee-cup shame, annie to match my sister’s hallie, not my fucking name. this is my lake union heartbeat, coal line veins, it’s my postmodern punk paradigm shift, […]
August 28, 2023
Haibun for Cantonese, “The Bird Language”
Seven — the age I learned my mouth was a cannon & from this circus toy ruptured feathers so abundant that I choked on syllables. To call yourself Cantonese is to […]
August 28, 2023
2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Introduction
The Kenyon Review’s annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers was judged this year by acclaimed poet Ruth Awad. From more than fifteen hundred entries, Awad selected a winner […]