Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

Read

Mar/Apr 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 2 • Poetry |

For My Father

By Tracy Ryan

Somehow you’re here

in each stroke
guiding my line
to the end—

Already have an account? Log in

Join KR for even more to read.

Sign up for a free account and read any five pieces a month.
Sign Up and Read for Free



Or become a subscriber today and get complete, immediate access to our digital archives at every subscription level.
Explore Subscriptions

Read More

Junction

By Tracy Ryan

Fox, you are overwritten. Freeze-frame vision too like a poem. I brake and the children clamor, noses to glass, chill mirror. Languid, askance, at leisure— slow motion that spells disaster—so […]

Read More

Dislocation

By Tracy Ryan

Wasp at the top of the house springs warmed, old oven— we've both miscalculated. O art of expectation! Staggery, rag-imped thing. All winter I came up with nothing doing. Dead […]

Read More

Upcoming
Workshops

Subscribe

Your free registration with The Kenyon Review includes access to exclusive content, early access to program registration, and more.

Subscription Options

Donate

With your support, we’ll continue 
to cultivate talent and publish extraordinary literature from diverse voices around the world.

Donate to KR
Back to top