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May/June 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 3 |

Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review

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NONFICTION – “Gladioli” by Melissa Seley

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Silent Billy

By Sherod Santos

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You’re Hoarding Guns, I’m Growing Herbs

By Corrie Williamson

my sister tells my father after he bends                          to pluck from her patch of pennyroyal, age-old abortifacient from mint’sfamily, square-stemmed, toxic, crested                          like a tropical bird with morning-purple tuft, and […]

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