February 5, 2018
Why We Chose It
“Nocturne,” by Oliverio Girondo, translated from Spanish by Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod, appears in the Jan/Feb 2018 KROnline. I’ve been entirely transfixed this month while reading and rereading the […]
January 4, 2018
Difficult and Devoted: My Abbreviated 2017 Reading List
Another year has come and gone. As always, I wish I had read more—to have spent more hours of this year alone, in the quiet, with nothing but a book, […]
May 8, 2017
Why We Chose It
“A Philosophy of Stones” by Gretchen E. Henderson appears in the May/June 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review A good game for the bookish is to think of a single […]
April 21, 2016
Poem in Your Pocket Day is almost here
This is the twentieth year National Poetry Month has been commemorated–it began with the Academy of American Poets in 1996–and we’re pleased to be part of the national celebration. As […]
July 6, 2015
Why We Chose It
Derek Mong, “Ten New Ways to Read Johnson’s Radi os” The literary essay is having, as they say, a moment. Here at KR, the number of nonfiction submissions we receive each […]
May 15, 2014
Survive
I’ve been reading my friend and Kenyon Review colleague Natalie Shapero’s poems for eight or nine years now, since she first started publishing them. Her poems are beyond her years, […]