The Kenyon Review
Fall 2025
Vol. XLVII, No. 4
The Fall 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review includes work from ZZ Packer, C. S. Giscombe, and Lydi Conklin. The issue also features Visitation, a folio guest-edited by Jennifer Galvão; the winner of the second annual Poetry contest; the winner and runners-up of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers; and a collection of art by Kaela Mei-Chee Chambers.
From the
Issue
What’s Done Is Done
By ZZ Packer
Old Fort Lancaster, 1867 Will Cathay remembered all the times in Louisville when he’d passed the colored schoolhouse and wondered if he should stop the kindly-looking girl who turned out […]
Bad Air
By Lydi Conklin
The Kenyon Review · “Bad Air” by Lydi Conklin On the last leg of Fiona’s journey to the Lodgepole Heritage Residency, outside Sisters, fires were everywhere. Traffic stopped four times […]
East Line Train
For Barry McKinnon and Kent Sedgwick and Ranjit Gill (The East Line towns — Shelley, Willow River, Giscome, Newlands, Aleza Lake, Upper Fraser, Hansard, McGregor, Dewey, Sinclair Mills, Hutton, Longworth, and Penny — along […]
Forthcoming
Trail Coltsfoot
Read “Trail Coltsfoot” from Joan Naviyuk Kane’s with snow pouring southward past the window published March 3, 2026 by University of Pittsburgh Press. our guttering winter’s final blizzarddizzies bluebright pouring […]
Board of Game
Read “Board of Game” from Joan Naviyuk Kane’s with snow pouring southward past the window published March 3, 2026 by University of Pittsburgh Press. you who did not expecther to […]
The Disparate Heart
Read “The Disparate Heart” a companion piece to author Jacque Gorelick’s MAP OF A HEART: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, LOSS, AND FINDING THE WAY HOME (Vine Leaves Press, 2026), published on […]
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The Kenyon Review, an international journal of literature, culture, and the arts, is published in March, June, September, and December at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022. Since its founding in 1939, it has evolved from a distinguished literary magazine into a nonprofit arts organization. We remain devoted to nurturing, publishing, and celebrating the best writing from around the world.