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August 24, 2016

KR Podcast with Linda Gregerson

In this month’s podcast, poet Linda Gregerson talks with KR book review editor Corey Van Landingham about revisiting Ovid, throwing her voice, and poems that remain open to interference. Linda […]

July 27, 2016

KR Podcast with Stanley Plumly

In this month’s podcast, poet Stanley Plumly talks with contributing editor Maggie Smith about differences in writing poetry or prose, process and the importance of revision, and writing about Keats. Plumly […]

July 1, 2016

KR Podcast with Maggie Smith

This is a special edition of the Kenyon Review Podcast. One that we thought you might like to hear as quickly as possible. Maggie Smith was at Kenyon recently as […]

April 29, 2016

KR Podcast with Daniel Torday

In this month’s podcast, Daniel Torday, award-winning novelist (The Flight of Poxl West) and former KR book review editor, talks with consulting editor Andy Grace about the line between fiction […]

April 2, 2016

KR Podcast with Danielle Evans

In this month’s podcast, Danielle Evans, author of the prize-winning short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, talks with KR Fellow Melinda Moustakis about road trip stories, […]

February 29, 2016

KR Podcast with Stephen Burt

In this month’s podcast, Stephen Burt talks with Editor at Large Natalie Shapero about the least expected parts of being a gender-variant writer, ethical questions in book reviewing, and how […]

January 28, 2016

KR Podcast with Jaimy Gordon

In this month’s podcast, Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award-winning novelist of Lord of Misrule, talks with KR Fellow Melinda Moustakis about women writing animals in fiction, falling in love with […]

January 19, 2016

KR Podcast with Eileen Myles

In this month’s podcast hosted by contributing editor Natalie Shapero, poet and writer Eileen Myles discusses the literary life of the Boston accent, how everybody wants to get into her […]

December 9, 2015

KR Podcast with David James Poissant

In this month’s podcast David James Poissant discusses the poem that inspired his title, how to pick stories for a collection, and why everyone wants to write about the great […]

October 28, 2015

KR Podcast with Maggie Smith

In this month’s podcast, poet Maggie Smith and consulting editor Andrew Grace discuss balancing parenting with the writing life, rewriting fairy tales, the ins and outs of the poetry manuscript […]

October 5, 2015

KR Podcast with Dinty W. Moore

In this month’s podcast, essayist and editor Dinty W. Moore talks to Editor at Large Natalie Shapero about the line between comedy and mockery, the line between truth and memory, […]