November 1, 2016
ƒ(x)
Runner-up 2016 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers I have a sore spot on each side of my head where our eyes used to be when we were fish. […]
November 1, 2016
Parable
Runner-up 2016 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Nanjing, China —1966, Cultural Revolution 1 Peony petals lace the Nanjing streets, ripped in pink dissolve, And here, my soldier […]
November 1, 2016
Death Uses a Lot of Laundry Detergent
Winner 2016 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Let’s say Death is a person, because it makes me feel better to think of Death this way. Death as a […]
November 1, 2016
Young Poets Introduction
Editor at Large 2016 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, now in its thirteenth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by […]
September 1, 2015
Tlingit Farewell: Glacier Bay, 1966
First-Prize Winner 2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Iceberg floats, bobbing like our own oversized crystalline buoy. Red knots pump their wings, searching for a place to call […]
September 1, 2015
I Spent a Lot of Time in There
Runner-up 2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers There’s a sign above the door, “Funeral Home— Pay Before You Stay” I sit inside downstairs, away from obscured bodies but […]
September 1, 2015
Story for the Salt
Runner-up 2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Stooped over the sink like the arm of a salt-marsh tree, suds meditating in her palms, Ma swears this is true— […]
September 1, 2015
Young Poets Introduction
2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, now in its twelfth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by a high school […]
January 1, 2015
Young Poets Introduction
2014 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The Kenyon Review wishes to congratulate all of the high school students who submitted their work to our annual Patricia Grodd Poetry […]
January 1, 2015
Open in the Spring
Runner-up 2014 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers This morning I watched my mother unfurl like a cherry blossom. Her arms branched toward the ceiling, weaving into the air, […]
January 1, 2015
indigo sister
First-prize Winner 2014 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Can we make love to the rhythms of a “little early Miles” when he may have spent the morning of […]
October 1, 2013
Full Blood
First-Prize Winner 2013 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers On Friday morning I drive Aunt Alé to her job where she decorates cakes for little more than the […]