October 18, 2019
KR Podcast with Tommy Pico
Kenyon students Claire Oleson and Brent Matheny talk with poet Tommy Pico about the similarities between poetry and screenwriting, what to do with writing advice, a his choice of his […]
September 20, 2019
KR Podcast with Emily Jungmin Yoon
Emily Jungmin Yoon and Eloisa Amezcua talk about failures as openings to possibilities, the poet’s work of filling in history’s gaps, and Emily’s poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our […]
August 27, 2019
KR Podcast with Shara McCallum
Poet Shara McCallum talks to KR’s Anna Duke Reach about memory as an afterlife and reconstructing those we’ve lost through the language we use. Shara McCallum was born in Jamaica […]
August 8, 2019
KR Podcast with Ed Skoog
Want to know what the past felt like? Read the poems. Kenyon College visiting assistant professor of English Matt Suazo catches up with Ed Skoog about New Orleans, cooperating with […]
July 16, 2019
KR Podcast with Meg Freitag
Kenyon Review Associate and Intern Trudy Wrona interviews Meg Freitag about her new collection of poems, Edith, a book that explores grief and trauma through poems addressed to Freitag’s dead […]
June 20, 2019
KR Podcast with Sarah Weinman
KR editor at large Katharine Weber talks with author Sarah Weinman about Nabokov’s Lolita, our fascination with crime and our capability toward misdeeds. Sarah Weinman is the author of The […]
May 10, 2019
Proof Casts A Shadow: A Special KR Podcast
Kenyon Review fellow Misha Rai sits down with Gabrielle Bellot and Nay Saysourinho to discuss narratives that address the language of citizenship, colonialism, labels, and identity. Gabrielle Bellot is a […]
April 23, 2019
KR Podcast with Kimiko Hahn
Poet Kimiko Hahn talks about the significance of translation and conceiving words as portals and playgrounds with her Peter Taylor Fellow Sylvia Beato-Davis. Kimiko Hahn’s latest book, Brain Fever, is […]
April 2, 2019
KR Podcast with R. O. Kwon
Best-selling author R. O. Kwon talks with Kenyon Review editor at large Katharine Weber about Kwon’s timely novel, The Incendiaries. They also discuss the many paths to becoming a writer […]
March 15, 2019
KR Podcast with Rodger Kamenetz
Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and The History of Last Night’s Dream, speaks with his KR Writers Workshop Fellow Jessica Kinnison about the primary imagination, the […]
March 1, 2019
KR Podcast with Eric Gansworth
Eric Gansworth, the author of “Secret Identity” in the Mar/Apr Kenyon Review, speaks with Editor at Large Janet McAdams about the compartmentalization of narratives from marginalized communities and the value […]
February 25, 2019
KR Podcast with Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine
Writers Workshop fellow Robyn-Phalen Rayson converses with writer Ghassan Abou-Zeinnedine about the role of comedy, folklore, grief and politics in the crafting of a narrative. Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine holds an MFA […]