October 3, 2022
Diptych on Getting from Point A to Point B
A. Through many airplane windows I have seen cities unfurling like carpets of starlight over the earth. I could pull
October 3, 2022
For My Father, Who Lives Alone
Baba turns fifty alone / in the 6 x 8 box / of our iPad 3 / September on our breaths / seven years coming now / funny how memory / has a way of nebulizing / the hum of radio static / the way you learned English by listening to the Beatles’ / “Hey Jude” on repeat / now white noise / at age ten / we were two continents / sundered by ocean / no more than arbitrary geography / at age ten / I held dawn like a permission / tasted it skin by skin / a mouthful of
October 2, 2022
Come Closer
The sky goes green with tornadoes, heavy as low- hanging fruit. The deer is carried off the road, and it never got hit in the first place. When the light
October 2, 2022
Young Poets Introduction
“The sky goes green with tornadoes, heavy as low- / hanging fruit” begins Sophie Bernik’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize–winning poem, “Come Closer.” Bernik’s poem was one of many pieces in […]
September 9, 2021
Ghost Town, Ohio
Runner-up2021 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Anything can be a spinning tire or anything can be a dead endspeckled with spit or anything can be a memorialif you […]
September 9, 2021
Golden
Winner2021 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The man in sequins is slamming his head against the red window. The woman with the bandaged arms is cradling his spotted hands, begging: […]
September 9, 2021
Dr. Freud’s Magic 8-Ball
Runner-up2021 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers you piss in a cup enough times& you get better. whatever time you’re at, that’s the charm. betteraim. better at ignoring the […]
September 9, 2021
Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review
Click on any of the links below to download or stream audio versions of work from the issue. 2021 PATRICIA GRODD POETRY PRIZE FOR YOUNG WRITERS – “Golden” by Daniel […]
September 1, 2020
Meat
Runner-up2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers In the morning, my daughter eats rice porridgewith hawthorn berries and smiles over knuckles plump, unsplit by teeth. She is powdered sugarand […]
September 1, 2020
(B)lack
Runner-up2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Passing. I am smudged—skin color on White canvases stretched over headlights. A black mom / A white dad. Now, the sky tosses and turns WithMurkyHuesAtopLeadHillsUntilScreechingBirds Jolt my […]
September 1, 2020
Cutglass
Winner2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Mama tells me there are men who measure themselves by theshadows they cast. In the war years they ripped softness from the […]
September 1, 2020
Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review
Click on any of the links below to download or stream audio versions of work from the issue, or subscribe to our iTunes podcast feed to receive regular audio updates […]