October 1, 2006
A Heap of Fruits
2006 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Third-Place Winner I find in my refrigerator fruits (Bananas, apples, oranges, and such) Deriving their decay from divers roots Some almost […]
October 1, 2006
A Quantum Leap
2006 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Second-Place Winner in physics class we play god—it is the movement, the force, the friction between parallel objects. i am […]
October 1, 2006
Introduction: On the Third Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Commentary We are excited to present the third annual installment of The Kenyon Review‘s feature on high school poets, now formally known […]
October 1, 2006
El Norte
2006 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers First-Place Winner I.Here, the skyline tilts, swerves into view then disappears between the hills behind the walls darkened with hieroglyphics scrawled […]
January 1, 2006
Evolution
2005 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers Second-Place Winner There was never a moment when the infant with the large, round spectacles, flowered stretch pants, untidy braids discovered […]
January 1, 2006
Good Morning America
2005 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers First-Place Winner Pakistani woman trained as Suicide bomber killstwo Suspects held in Custody Scandal over legal guardian of Child Kidnapped by […]
January 1, 2006
Introduction: On the Second Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Young Writers Commentary The Kenyon Review’s history is rich with the best work from the best writers here and abroad. We have published the poetry of Robert Lowell and […]
January 1, 2006
Apology for the Death of Your Father
2005 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers Third-Place Winner I You were the kind of Girl that detached herself Early. You were born unlinked, Free, nature-tossed. He named […]
January 1, 2006
The Unlasting
I Like a vain man practicing a vain artBorn out of failure—not the grand failureOf the Will or the Imagination, But on a more human scale: what happened?What happened […]
January 1, 2006
Starlings
All winter I watched the swarms of starlingsswooping in the northern sky like cast netsor some foreign alphabets flying loose and returning and rushing out again.I wanted to live the […]
January 1, 2006
Park of the Doria Pamphilj
I know I was startled to feel like this,staring straight into the eye of the storm,the stone pines turning toward me and away— stands of them standing, and then bending […]
January 1, 2006
Ian McEwan & Antony Gormley: A Conversation about Art and Nature
I came to know Antony Gornley during a week we spent together far inside the Arctic Circle in March 2005. We were sharing a miniscule bunk room on board a […]