October 1, 2010
Han
First-Prize Winner 2010 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers It is perhaps what my mother holds to her heart when she ends a call from a different hemisphere, her […]
October 1, 2010
Clutch
Runner-up 2010 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers In the spring, my father had a black thumb and too many blisters. Pear blossoms and new tomato worms kept him […]
October 1, 2010
Nkoaranga
Runner-up 2010 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers July bears me up onto plains, onto pounded, dusty roads, where banana plants hunch with ripeness. On the way to market […]
October 1, 2009
Ciudad
Third-Prize Winner 2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers For Mama In the morning Pittsburgh moves mechanically, rises its sun over the rivers and bridges like our public bus […]
October 1, 2009
Young Poets Introduction
Poetry Editor 2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers This is the sixth year that we at The Kenyon Review have offered the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young […]
October 1, 2009
Letter
First-Prize Winner 2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers You tell me first about the three ladybugs on your kitchen window— how the light filtered under their bodies to […]
October 1, 2009
The Solitude of Hungarians
Second-Prize Winner 2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers One Sunday in June it was discovered that no one outside of Hungary spoke Hungarian. People choked on their dinners […]
October 1, 2008
Terra Incognita
First-Prize Winner 2008 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers I. You can open your eyes now. I was born onto unsteady ships, Born under two tilting masts, Born knowing […]
October 1, 2008
(why) can’t i hear you anymore?
Second-Prize Winner 2008 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers I. one metronome ticking; two hearts on the offbeat; one child’s violin small enough to fit sideways through a window […]
October 1, 2008
self-portrait
Third-Prize Winner 2008 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers I. she can’t write poetry. the old ways are gone, she says and wishes the snowflakes might scepter our pizza […]
October 1, 2008
Young Writers Introduction
Poetry Editor 2008 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers For five years now The Kenyon Review has been proud to sponsor the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. […]
October 1, 2007
The Night You Questioned the Purpose of Flowers
Second-Place Winner,2007 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers So I'm sitting kissing Molly Ringwald. I can't feel my fingers so I'm not going to try. My eyes are […]