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

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March 21, 2016

You Are Spring

By Dora Malech

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. —from “The Trees” by Philip Larkin […]

April 3, 2015

Technical Difficulty

By Dora Malech

I’m excited to be blogging for The Kenyon Review, especially at the start of the much-anticipated and oft-maligned National Poetry Month. Personally, I love reading blog posts that serve as […]