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Summer 2025
Vol. XLVII No. 3
The Summer 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review includes fiction by Madison Bakalar, Pritha Bhattacharyya, Torsa Ghosal, and Marianna Suleymanova’s translation of an Evgenia Nekrasova story; nonfiction by Tori McCandless, Nik Chang Hoon, Marin Sardy, and Daniel Uncapher; and poetry by Darius Atefat-Peckham, Sydney Mayes, Crystal AC Salas, and Clara Trippe. Complementing these works on the cover is art by Krista Franklin.
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Poetry
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Dong LI
water chestnuts and the opening wound -
Crystal AC Salas
Sequoias -
Crystal AC Salas
Migration of a Stroke -
Othuke Umukoro
Grit -
Jordan Hamel
Low Boy -
Sydney Mayes
Herbert Levine Fashion House, February -
Sydney Mayes
Golden Glosa Bird-Watching at Radnor Lake -
Sydney Mayes
Monostich Where the Poet Stares at Hardwood, Which Is Not Hardwood but Laminate Flooring -
Clara Trippe
Midwest at Sunset -
Clara Trippe
This Will Pass, and Pass
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Dong LI
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Fiction
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Madison Bakalar
Calving -
Ben Walter
Then There Will Be More Breathing -
Alex Boeden
Pharmaconomia Danica -
Ann Aspell
Harrier -
Evgenia Nekrasova
She-Bear -
Daniel Hornsby
Swing Revival -
Pritha Bhattacharyya
The Trouble with Brown People
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Madison Bakalar
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Nonfiction
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Aaron Carico
On the Verge of the Forest Park -
Robert Norman
Fontanelle -
David Huebert
The Wild in the Fire and the Fire in the Mind -
Nik Chang Hoon
Emotionally Self-Aware Adoptive Parent: Contract for Services -
Kaitlyn Airy
On Hunger -
Tori McCandless
Good Boy (a trans lyric) -
António Lobo Antunes
Only the Dead Have Been to Mafra -
Andalyn Young
The Trying -
Daniel Uncapher
“A Temporary Home for Lost Cats” and Other Mysteries of Life -
Marin Sardy
Sonoran Desert Toad -
Angela Chen
Disease, Disposition -
Adam O. Davis
Two Veterans
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Aaron Carico
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Forough Farrokhzad Folio
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Cindy Juyoung Ok
Introduction -
Saba Keramati
Reading Farrokhzad in English -
Farnaz Fatemi
Gaze Ghazal -
Farnaz Fatemi
Hair in the Wind -
Shabnam Piryaei
Night (I) -
Shabnam Piryaei
Night (II) -
Forough Farrokhzad
The Wind Will Take Us -
Forough Farrokhzad
Gift -
Forough Farrokhzad
I Will Again Greet the Sun -
Forough Farrokhzad
The Bird Is Mortal -
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Nothing Is Certain -
Forough Farrokhzad
On Leili’s Grave -
Jahan Khajavi
First Epistle -
Jahan Khajavi
Second Epistle -
Jahan Khajavi
Third Epistle -
Forough Farrokhzad
Wind-Up Doll -
Forough Farrokhzad
O Jewel-Studded Land -
Forough Farrokhzad
Another Birth -
Darius Atefat-Peckham
Reborn -
Darius Atefat-Peckham
The Pilgrimage -
Darius Atefat-Peckham
And As A Statue, Still, I Reach for It -
Fatemah Shams
Burnt Oak -
Temperance Aghamohammadi
Fetish I -
Temperance Aghamohammadi
Fetish II -
Temperance Aghamohammadi
Fetish III -
Forough Farrokhzad
Friday -
Forough Farrokhzad
The Ring -
Shahilla Shariff
Other Than Black -
Roz Shayan Naimi
Window -
Alixen Pham
Old as the Bible -
Alixen Pham
I Dream of a White House -
Forough Farrokhzad
Carnal -
Forough Farrokhzad
Melancholia #5 -
Forough Farrokhzad
Melancholia #6 -
Forough Farrokhzad
The Wind Will Carry Us -
Mahta Riazi
Ali -
Mahta Riazi
Sleep -
George Abraham
When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America -
George Abraham
My Eve of No Nation -
George Abraham
Postcolonial Novel -
Edward Salem
Greetings To -
Souri Ahmadlou
Four Poems after Forough’s “Another Birth” -
Saima Afreen
This Madness -
Zohreh Zadbood
You’re My Midas’ Touch -
Torsa Ghosal
A School of Fish Disturbed -
vivian panah-izadi
Djinni Down the Road -
vivian panah-izadi
Parviz, Do You See Me? -
Sahar Delijani
Another Birth -
Forough Farrokhzad
from From Nima On: A Selection of Contemporary Iranian Poetry -
Zahra Safaverdi
Aftab Mishavad in Three Sequential Triptychs
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Cindy Juyoung Ok
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Spring 2025
Vol. XLVII No. 2
The Spring 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review includes “The Milk Incident” by Easton Smith, the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. It also features the Cinema folio, which presents, among many stellar works, poetry by DeeSoul Carson and Peter LaBerge, fiction by Anna Chung and Torrey Paquette, and nonfiction by Irene Bakola and Kelsey Ronan. The issue also includes poetry by Jenny Molberg and Felicia Zamora, fiction by Sevindj Nurkiyazova and Manasa Reddy, and nonfiction by Clint Martin and Jasmine Reid. Complementing these works on the cover is art by Ali Alia.
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2024 Short Fiction Contest
- Introduction
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Easton Smith
The Milk Incident -
Tamar Nachmany
Your Girls -
Victoria Winter Hill
Cousin Hayden
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Cinema
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Michael Bazzett
Extra -
Peter LaBerge
The Indisputable -
Carl Landauer
What Can One Know Even of the People One Lives with Every Day? -
Carl Landauer
How Do They Call Thee? -
Carl Landauer
The Kind of Guy You Always Used to Hate -
Carl Landauer
But I Drift. I Was in Fact Discussing the Silver -
DeeSoul Carson
i must listen to the birds -
Les Bohem
Color, Sound, Darkness -
Anna Chung
TV Buddha -
Wah-Ming Chang
from Eclipse -
Torrey Paquette
The Faint Aroma of Performing Seals -
Irene Bakola
Stations of Flânerie -
Bertrand Schefer
With Sans Soleil -
Kelsey Ronan
Cry Room
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Michael Bazzett
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Poetry
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Leila Chatti
Language -
Lisa Ampleman
from Salt Through the Hourglass -
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
I. Make me an organ vast & visible -
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
II. The soul bursting open like a dark star -
Chelsea Dingman
If a Moment Becomes a Season, the Event Becomes a Condition -
Chelsea Dingman
Symptoms of Impossible Histories -
Simone Muench
Olga and Joyce’s Unspeakable Beasts -
Simone Muench
Kati Horna Tells an Untitled Story -
Ed Roberson
On the Traditional Ode to Melancholy -
Til Punto
Order -
Til Punto
Balloons -
Til Punto
Marking Time -
Til Punto
Palace Guards -
Til Punto
Burning Fingers -
Til Punto
Beauty -
Adam Giannelli
Stutterfied -
Jenny Molberg
Freefall -
Jenny Molberg
Mom’s Portrait of Me -
Selena Spier
There Is No Light at the End of the Tunnel Because the Tunnel Is Made of Light -
Selena Spier
Even in the City, Watching an Old Man Dance with a Plastic Skeleton in the Times Square Subway Station, I long for the City -
Felicia Zamora
Ecogodliness -
Jen Silverman
Expiration / Divination -
Jen Silverman
Doppelgänger Poem -
Jake Phillips
& the rest -
Jake Phillips
We stare silent at the dead deer -
Jake Phillips
Neighbors -
Nathalie Schmid
News -
Nathalie Schmid
Juniper -
Winniebell Xinyu Zong
I’m allergic to chicken legs -
Sophia Dahlin
Sapphic Loop -
Nicole Callihan
Lightbulb -
Nicole Callihan
Thimble -
Nicole Callihan
Wheelbarrow -
Nicole Callihan
Knot -
Hussain Ahmed
Crown Made from the Sun -
Hussain Ahmed
Death in a Pouch -
Hussain Ahmed
Son of Gold -
Sara Elkamel
Tunis Village, Fayoum -
Haesong Kwon
Japan Korea
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Leila Chatti
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Fiction
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Manasa Reddy
Orange Story -
Corinne Cordasco-Pak
Whale Fall -
Sevindj Nurkiyazova
Greenland
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Manasa Reddy
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Nonfiction
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Clint Martin
Cardinal Math: A Multi-Language Approach to Thinking About Some Stuff -
Jasmine Reid
the nest of nothing
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Clint Martin
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Winter 2025
Vol. XLVII No. 1
The Winter 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review includes “On Molting” by Jessica Petrow-Cohen, the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest. It also includes the Far Corners folio which, as Associate Editor Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky writes, “seeks to explore its own diverse geography.” The folio includes, among many excellent works, poetry by Benjamin Gucciardi; fiction by Elisabeth Plumlee-Watson and Mario Alberto Zambrano; nonfiction by Edmée Lepercq and Robin Babb, and a hybrid work by V. H. Wildman. The issue also includes the Translation Folio, with contributions from Shizuka Omori translated from the Japanese by Yuki Tanaka, Xabier Usabiaga translated from the Spanish by James Appleby, and Song Seung Eon translated from the Korean by Stine An, and many more. The issue also includes poetry by Lance Larsen; nonfiction by Melissa Faliveno; and fiction by Carole Maso. Complementing these folios on the cover is work by artist Krista Franklin.
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2024 Nonfiction Contest
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Melissa Febos
Introduction -
Jessica Petrow-Cohen
On Molting -
Laura Kraftowitz
Abu Jamil’s House: Portraits of Gaza -
Cynthia Nwakudu
In Re-Memoriam
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Melissa Febos
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Far Corners
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Introduction -
Edmée Lepercq
Germination Protocol -
James O’Leary
Yellow Period -
Benjamin Gucciardi
Thread Count -
Elisabeth Plumlee-Watson
From “I Would Know You Anywhere” -
E. E. Hussey
Spider Fight -
Averill Curdy
Still Life -
Jane Wang
Geopolitical Implications After Stone Fruit Season -
V. H. Wildman
From “‘SHRINE’: A Little Book About Paul Thek” -
Mario Alberto Zambrano
Lo Que Llaman -
Robin Babb
The Iron Lung
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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Review
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Sam Bodrojan
I Do Not Know Lucy Ives
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Sam Bodrojan
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Poetry
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Matthew Buxton
Summer -
Victoria Chang
Ode to Joy -
Victoria Chang
Fig. 15 -
Victoria Chang
The Bird Cage -
Rick Barot
4’33” -
Rick Barot
The Clearing -
Rick Barot
Ghosts -
Amanda Moore
Open Space Preserve -
Kelleen Zubick
Backward View on a Forward Train -
Lance Larsen
Up to Their Dirty Wrists -
Betsy Johnson
tide madness -
Betsy Johnson
one animal -
Betsy Johnson
she is very strange -
Cortney Lamar Charleston
Before Exodus -
Cortney Lamar Charleston
The Inventor of Whiteness -
Christian Wessels
Sympathetic Magic from the Black Forest -
Patrick Martin Holian
Qualia -
Malia Maxwell
Rabbit Holes
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Matthew Buxton
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Fiction
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Rebecca Clouse
A Patient -
Carole Maso
from Eternity and the Dreamer -
Cullen McAndrews
Boot Road -
Samantha Jade Macpherson
Then Who?
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Rebecca Clouse
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Nonfiction
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Melissa Faliveno
Driving Around Central Ohio in my Dad’s ’07 Chevy Listening to the CDs of my Youth; or, Put the Past Away; or, August and Everything After -
N.C. Happe
Field Notes from a Body -
Abigail Parry
Sensational Spelling -
Iheoma Nwachukwu
How to Give Directions to a Nigerian in America -
Iheoma Nwachukwu
Metro Booming -
Iheoma Nwachukwu
Surugede -
Elaine van der Geld
That Kind of Girl
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Melissa Faliveno
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Translations
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Shizuka Omori
Six Tanka -
Nuno Camarneiro
The Grandfather -
Song Seung Eon
Head Collector -
Chris Hoshnic
The Danger Is Clear -
Martha Riva Palacio Obón
Saudade for Being a Bug -
Éireann Lorsung
Reading Theory -
Éireann Lorsung
Proust Studies -
Xabier Usabiaga
Letter to César Vallejo -
Atefe Asadi
A Coffin for Four -
Milena Williamson
Charm Against a Fever -
Milena Williamson
Charm Against a Fever (Remixed) -
Milena Williamson
Charm for a Swarm of Bees -
Milena Williamson
Charm for a Swarm of Bees (Remixed) -
Milena Williamson
Charm for Tumors -
Milena Williamson
Charm for Tumors (Remixed) -
Mason Wray
After Birds
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Shizuka Omori
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Why We Chose It
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Claire Oleson
Why We Chose It: “I Do Not Know Lucy Ives” -
Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Why We Chose It: Excerpt From “I Would Know You Anywhere” by Elisabeth Plumlee-Watson
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Claire Oleson
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Fall 2024
Vol. XLVI No. 4
The Fall 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review includes the winner and runners-up for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, selected by Richie Hofmann; the winner of the First Annual Poetry Contests selected by Pádraig Ó Tuama; and a Rural Spaces folio guest-edited by Jamie Lyn Smith, Brian Michael Murphy, and Andrew Grace, with poetry by ethan s. evans, JP Grasser, Faylita Hicks, and Alberto Rios; fiction by Nick Bertelson, Chee Brossy, Kai Carlson-Wee, and Issa Quincy; and nonfiction byapyang Imiq translated by brenda lin; and much more, including interior and cover art by Ming Smith.
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2024 Grodd Poetry Prize
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Richie Hofmann
Introduction -
Cloris Shi
son as white plant -
Acadia Reynolds
Dissection of My Grandmother’s Eye -
Tiffany Aurelia
Origin Myth as Hand-Me-Down
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Richie Hofmann
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2024 Poetry Contest
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Pádraig Ó Tuama
Introduction -
James Macmillen
War Grave
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Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Rural Spaces
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Jamie Lyn Smith
Editors’ Note -
CD Eskilson
Murmuration -
CD Eskilson
Out in the Country -
Margot Kahn
The Boys -
Margot Kahn
After Colt Breaking -
Apyang Imiq
River Dam of Confession -
Faylita Hicks
Cult Classic: The Thousand Oaks Youth Ranch in Corsicana, Texas -
Janice N. Harrington
Through a Mobile Lens, Brooklyn, Illinois -
Chee Brossy
Goat’s Milk -
Julia Bouwsma
After We Wound the Land to Maps -
Julia Bouwsma
Drought Diary -
Robert Wood Lynn
On the Last Day of the Year -
Matty Layne Glasgow
hyperpastoral, or edging -
Jenna Martínez
Parade -
Kimberly Blaeser
Waiting, a Quintet -
Ian U Lockaby
Fig Rennet -
Annie Wenstrup
As Galatea -
Annie Wenstrup
As Persephone -
Annie Wenstrup
As Vanitas -
YE Hui
The Long View -
Angie Romines
Gone for a Spell -
Leanne Shirtliffe
He Wasn’t a Farm Kid -
Kai Carlson-Wee
Deer Head Hoop -
Issa Quincy
Fisherboy -
Alberto Ríos
Jugando Hoyos -
David Thacker
Spring-Loaded -
Nick Bertelson
’Roomers -
Gabrielle Bates
Lyric Crisis -
Gabrielle Bates
One Two -
ethan s. evans
42nd parallel -
ethan s. evans
nebraska -
Rose McLarney
River, from Origin to Mouth -
Leah Naomi Green
Lyme Disease -
JP Grasser
New Year’s Day, Alone -
Anna Maria Hong
Solstice -
Anna Maria Hong
Solstice -
Anna Maria Hong
Sijo for the Forecast
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Jamie Lyn Smith
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Art
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Daisy Desrosiers
Introduction -
Ming Smith
Photographs inspired by Jazz Requiem — Notations in Blue
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Daisy Desrosiers
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Poetry
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Diane Louie
Things That Keep Those Things Not Kept By Us -
Jacques J. Rancourt
The Past Tense -
Christopher Citro
Hawk Shadow Here to Help -
Rodrigo Toscano
Clearing Lines -
Aiden Heung
Taste of Tea -
Aiden Heung
The Man from the Mountain -
Aiden Heung
Mother Gifted Me to the Mountain God -
Kenton K. Yee
Hummingbird -
Bernardo Wade
Ten Minutes Before They Released Me from Orleans Parish Prison -
John Yau
A Voice in the Studio of Peter Paul Rubens -
John Yau
Writer’s Aid -
G.C. Waldrep
We Want to Know -
G.C. Waldrep
Mutualism -
Shin Hae-uk
Guest -
Shin Hae-uk
Scarf -
Shin Hae-uk
End of the Earth -
Shin Hae-uk
On the Dot -
Tilsa Otta
The sun parked in my space -
Tilsa Otta
When you don’t believe in anything you’re left to -
Tilsa Otta
When they knock on my front door an engine switches on -
Carissa Jiarong Chen
My Mother’s American Reincarnation Myth
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Diane Louie
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Nonfiction
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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Heartbeat -
Elise Thi Tran
The Haircut -
Sharon Lin
Mast Year
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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
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Fiction
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Summer 2024
Vol. XLVI No. 3
The Summer 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a folio centered on the theme of Extinction, with poetry by Jessica Abughattas, Saddiq Dzukogi, Martín Espada, and Farah Kader, fiction by Lee Conell, Vida James, and Jimin Kang, and nonfiction by Taneum Bambrick and noam keim. The tenth-anniversary edition of Nature’s Nature, guest edited by David Baker, also appears in this issue, featuring established poets Philip Metres, Evie Shockley, and Mary Szybist introducing emerging poets including Ariana Benson, Jasmine Reid, and Paige Webb. Complementing these two folios both on the cover and in a special color feature is landscape photography by Camille Seaman.
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Extinction
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Farah Kader
668 kilohertz, 1936 -
Kathy Chao
Brother, You Would Not Believe -
Sumita Chakraborty
The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Twenty-One: “Ozymandias” -
Matthew Tuckner
Extinction Studies -
Saddiq Dzukogi
The Repetition Is Appropriate Because What’s Being Denied Is Country -
Kelly Houle
Figs and Silver Cup -
Kelly Houle
Alphabet Shell -
Kelly Houle
Grapes and Pentimenti -
Analía Villagra
Bloodsucker -
Lee Conell
Bedtime Stories from the Permian -
Derrick Austin
Homage to Kathleen Collins -
Martín Espada
Florencia, Again and Again -
Martín Espada
My Beloved the Blasphemer Causes a Scuffle at the Bar -
noam keim
A Disappearance -
Iain Haley Pollock
Deep Down, Every Sinner -
MaKshya Tolbert
Failed Eulogy -
Taneum Bambrick
Slunk -
Simon Shieh
Zodiac of Earthly Signs -
Jessica Abughattas
The Last Real Cowboy -
Jessica Abughattas
A Highway Runs Through Town -
Mohan Sikka
Contact -
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Interludes: Distance -
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Interludes: Local Poem -
Laura Villareal
Or it’s strip malls for the foxes! -
Courtney Flerlage
To My Brother, Whistling -
Sabrina Helen Li
Grief Lessons -
Alexander Fredman
Python Hunters -
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Shibboleth: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben -
Anthony Tognazzini
Break the Line -
Franke Varca
Deh Bala Wedding -
Franke Varca
King’s Syria -
Vincent Tolentino
Mount Mariveles -
James McCorkle
Cavalcade -
Jimin Kang
Panama -
Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya
The Tortoise and the Tortoise -
Vida James
HATS & BATS -
Leah Tieger
Next Year’s Records Break Again -
Leah Tieger
Doomscrolling -
Wilfredo Pascual
The Lonely Mountain -
Peter Schmidt
On Extraction Extinction Poems
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Farah Kader
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Art Portfolio
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Nature's Nature
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David Baker
“Nature’s Nature” at Ten -
Charles Douthat
The Planting -
Matthew Olzmann
Epithalamium That Turns from the Garden -
Matthew Olzmann
Elephant -
Matthew Olzmann
Matthew Olzmann Introduces Tobi Kassim -
Tobi Kassim
Desire -
Tobi Kassim
Orange and Solstice -
Evie Shockley
before the union rally -
Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley Introduces Ariana Benson -
Ariana Benson
Encounter -
Ariana Benson
Meditation on the Nature of Sound and Its Absence -
Ariana Benson
on loveliness -
Ariana Benson
Pastoral in the Mode of Bob Ross -
Mary Szybist
I was wrestling with the lilac -
Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist Introduces Alicia Wright -
Alicia Wright
Holding the Line -
Alicia Wright
Eclipse -
Phillip B. Williams
Aide-Mémoire -
Phillip B. Williams
The Lengthening and Shortening of Shadow -
Phillip B. Williams
Pastoral, Not Withstanding -
Phillip B. Williams
Phillip B. Williams Introduces Jasmine Reid -
Jasmine Reid
Waterful Jasmine -
Jasmine Reid
Orchids & Rope Play -
Forrest Gander
Susan Barba’s Radical Gambit -
Susan Barba
Untitled -
Susan Barba
Mountains Are Mountains -
Susan Barba
Comma, Question Mark -
Philip Metres
The Fields -
Philip Metres
What Is Peace -
Philip Metres
First Snowfall -
Philip Metres
Letter to the Citizens -
Philip Metres
Philip Metres Introduces Paige Webb -
Paige Webb
Positions -
Paige Webb
Geographies
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David Baker
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Why We Chose It
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Frances Cannon
Why We Chose It: “Grief Lessons” by Sabrina Helen Li
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Frances Cannon
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Spring 2024
Vol. XLVI No. 2
The Spring 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review includes Beth Bachmann’s 2023 Short Fiction Contest-winning story, chosen by judge Danielle Evans; fiction by Nick Almeida and Lauren Cassani Davis; poetry by Fatima Jafar and Marcus Wicker; and a folio of Literary Curiosities, which features work by Jennifer Chang, JD Debris, Summer Farah, Eliza Gilbert, Christine Imperial, Phoebe Peter Oathout, Tega Oghenechovwen, Maya C. Popa, and more. The cover art is a detail of Chitra Ganesh’s City Inside Her, from the artist’s Architects of the Future portfolio.
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2023 Short Fiction Contest
- Introduction
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Beth Bachmann
The First Robot -
Moon Hee
Inside Jürgen Müller’s Apartment -
Mary Catherine Curley
The Hunting Vest
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Fiction
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Nick Almeida
The Keys -
Lauren Cassani Davis
Emergency Exit
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Nick Almeida
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Poetry
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Fatima Jafar
A Bigger Splash, 1967 -
Fatima Jafar
Reckless Duplex: The Beginning, Again -
Fatima Jafar
In the End of the Beginning of Our Lives, -
Marcus Wicker
ATLien Sees Sleepy Brown in Concert at City Winery, Drinks It In -
Marcus Wicker
Dear Mothership,
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Fatima Jafar
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Nonfiction
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Maurya Simon
A Tribute to Poet Robert Mezey
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Maurya Simon
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Literary Curiosities
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Phoebe Peter Oathout
Creative Prompts for Choosing a Name -
Summer Farah
I Tell Etel Adnan about The Legend of Zelda -
Summer Farah
A Year After I First Loved Haikyuu, -
Summer Farah
I Tell Etel Adnan about Mitski -
Tega Oghenechovwen
We Can Start This Story -
Alex Tretbar
Oculus Dexter -
Cole Swensen
Story Problems -
JD Debris
from The Angelic Doctors -
Jennifer Chang
A Lunch Date -
Jennifer Chang
Children in the World -
Emily Doyle
New Mercies -
Kimberly Grey
Investigation 46 -
Kimberly Grey
Investigation 17 -
Kimberly Grey
Investigation 15 -
Kimberly Grey
Investigation 12 -
Kimberly Grey
Investigation 9 -
Kimberly Grey
Investigation 3 -
Saša Stanišić
The Factory -
Chengru He
月 -
Lindsey Drager
The Tender Axis -
Eliza Gilbert
From the Fort Behind the Conifers -
Emily Ziffer
Adam Mickiewicz -
Christine Imperial
from “The Picture Pines” -
Charlotte Keathley
The Rights of the Innkeeper -
Charlotte Keathley
And/Or -
Mary Kuryla
Black Eye -
Sylee Gore
Kind of Greek -
Sylee Gore
It’s Still Light -
Maya C. Popa
Trial of the Mayfly -
Maya C. Popa
February Clear -
Evan Wang
我疼你 -
Drew Zeiba
The Replacement -
Peter M. Kazon
The Journal of Anodyne Historical Documents
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Phoebe Peter Oathout
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Why We Chose It
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Cindy Juyoung Ok
Why We Chose It: “The Picture Pines” by Christine Imperial -
Orchid Tierney
Why We Chose It: “Investigation” Series by Kimberly Grey -
Oliver de la Paz
Why We Chose It: “月” by Chengru He
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Cindy Juyoung Ok
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Winter 2024
Vol. XLVI No. 1
The Winter 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review includes an essay by Carrie Cogan, the winner of the 2023 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest, selected by Leslie Jamison; work by the 2021 Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellows, Allison Albino, Emily Stoddard, and Jane Walton; poetry by Sara Abou Rashed, Sarah Ghazal Ali, David Joez Villaverde, and Kim Garcia; fiction by K-Ming Chang, Melissa Yancy, and Brian Ma; nonfiction by Oz Johnson and Sarah Minor; and much more. The cover art is by DARNstudio, which consists of Ron Norsworthy and David Anthone.
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2023 Nonfiction Contest
- Introduction
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Carrie Cogan
Lowest of the Low on a High Red Hill -
Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck
Poor Historian -
Mikaela Dunitz
The Men
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Poetry
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Allison Albino
Texas Hold’em -
Allison Albino
Les Deux Tours -
Allison Albino
Dryer -
Allison Albino
Excerpt from “Paris Zuihitsu” -
David Joez Villaverde
Sprezzatura -
Michael Lavers
Critique of Paradise -
Christian Gullette
California Spring -
Christian Gullette
Quake -
Cynthia Cruz
California -
Sara Abou Rashed
What the Exiled Are -
Mónica Gomery
A Taxonomy of Bolting -
Mónica Gomery
Aubade with Selichot -
Sarah Ghazal Ali
Theophanies -
Sarah Ghazal Ali
Fatal Music -
Samyak Shertok
One Hundred and Eight Doors -
Samyak Shertok
Song in a Time of Revolution: A Ghazabun -
Safa Khatib
Hotel -
Safa Khatib
Those Hours -
Bin Ramke
Forest, Park, Meadow, Garden, Gate -
Bin Ramke
Free Will -
Duy Đoàn
Oxytocin -
Duy Đoàn
Oxytocin -
Duy Đoàn
Buddy and Butterscotch, Water Goat in the Year of the Water Snake -
Elaine Johanson
“You Know, They Used to Burn Women Like You at the Stake.” -
David Hutcheson
Pissing -
David Hutcheson
Farmington Park -
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
In Cognate -
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Falso Cognato -
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
En Cognato -
Kim Garcia
I Belong to this Cold -
Kim Garcia
After Leaving the Body House -
Nica Giromini
In a Confusion of Bed and Books -
Nica Giromini
Spread -
William Archila
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William Archila
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William Archila
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Raina J. León
For Feeling
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Allison Albino
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Fiction
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Jane Walton
No Fury -
Lacey Jones
Prolonged Exposure -
K-Ming Chang
The Tornado -
Brian Ma
Bus to Saigon -
Jenny Lecce
If I Tell You This Is Fiction -
Kathlene Postma
Where Are the Littles? -
Aria Beth Sloss
Thin Air -
Melissa Yancy
Entropy
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Jane Walton
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Nonfiction
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Emily Stoddard
Flight Risk -
Oz Johnson
Time Management -
Jenny Apostol
The Desire We Were Becoming -
Sarah Minor
On Waiting
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Emily Stoddard
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Why We Chose It
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Jennifer Galvão
Why We Chose It: “Prolonged Exposure” by Lacey Jones -
Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Why We Chose It: “Where Are the Littles?” by Kathlene Postma
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Jennifer Galvão
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Black Estrangement
Vol. XLV No. 5
Guest edited by Elinam Agbo, this special online issue centers the experiences of Black individuals and communities grappling with limited infrastructure, health care systems, archival records, personal histories, grief, climate change, and the wounds of colonialism. Inspired by the historical erasure and ongoing violence against Black lives, the issue features nonfiction by b ferguson, Edil Hassan, Erica N. Cardwell, Rickey Fayne, Ariana Benson, and Jenise Miller, alongside fiction by Leila Renee, alex terrell, N.K. Iguh, Melissa Beneche, Jeneé Skinner, Allison Noelle Conner, and Mathapelo Mofokeng.
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Introduction
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Elinam Agbo
Black Estrangement: An Introduction
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Elinam Agbo
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Art
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Jamiyla Lowe
Art
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Jamiyla Lowe
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Fiction
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Melissa Beneche
Sa Ki Pi Bel -
Ariana Benson
Sho-Gang: The Legend of Black Fandom -
Allison Noelle Conner
Gila -
Rickey Fayne
Possession -
N.K. Iguh
The Broken Window -
Mathapelo Mofokeng
The Knee -
Leila Renee
Which Turtles Saved Themselves -
Jeneé Skinner
Mother Water, Mirror Mother -
alex terrell
We Think of Our Mothers like Trees
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Melissa Beneche
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Nonfiction
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Erica N. Cardwell
Chicken Soup: Seven Attempts -
b ferguson
The Lantern, the Lightning, the Sea, and the Raft -
Edil Hassan
Its Ineffability Demands Another Larynx: On Sound, Grief, and Dionne Brand’s Inventory -
Jenise Miller
Labor of Memory
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Erica N. Cardwell
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Fall 2023
Vol. XLV No. 4
The Fall 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes the winner and runners-up for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, selected by Ruth Awad, and a Food-themed folio, with poetry by sam sax, Inga Lea Schmidt, and Holly Zhou; fiction by Rebecca Ackermann, Elvis Bego, and Douglas Silver; nonfiction by Katie Culligan and Erica N. Cardwell; and much more. Luminous Gender Vessel, a folio guest-edited by Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Melissa Faliveno, features work by Krys Malcolm Belc, KB Brookins, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Catherine Kim, and many others. The cover art is by Joanna Anos.
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2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Ruth Awad
2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Introduction -
Naomi Ling
Haibun for Cantonese, “The Bird Language” -
Aamina Mughal
Paradigm Shift -
Evan Sandifer
Because I Am Young, Stubborn, and Covered in Skin
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Ruth Awad
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Food
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Inga Lea Schmidt
Tenderloin -
Rebecca Ackermann
Lemon Season -
Alison Zheng
Congee Ghazal -
Katie Culligan
Scraps -
Meg Reynolds
Plums -
Meg Reynolds
Handing Down -
Erica N. Cardwell
Chicken Soup: Seven Attempts -
Elvis Bego
Our House -
Urvi Kumbhat
Miscalibration -
Isabel Starr Murray
Country Club -
Frances Cannon
The Fungi Hunters -
Erica Funkhouser
Sweet Potato -
Jean-Luc Bouchard
Little Boxes -
sam sax
Nearly Every Invading Army Brought Pigs with Them to Feed Their Soldiers -
sam sax
Headlines -
Emily Franklin
Sfratti -
Namkyu Oh
Chuseok -
Zak Salih
Three Niles -
Erin Elizabeth Smith
Porcinis -
Gregory Spatz
Thunderhead -
Holly Zhou
Eating Bitter -
Douglas Silver
Taste
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Inga Lea Schmidt
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Luminous Gender Vessel
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Luminous Gender Vessel Introduction -
Krys Malcolm Belc
I Made Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese -
Krys Malcolm Belc
I Made Chicken Soup -
Cate Marvin
Spiraled Ham -
Cate Marvin
Pleasure -
Carter Sickels
Forage -
Dare Williams
Gulp -
Dare Williams
The Minutes Add Up -
Catherine Kim
The Woman from Angers -
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
strong jaw -
KB Brookins
Remix #2 -
Sreshtha Sen
Long Before I Was Man Myself -
Sreshtha Sen
Self-Portrait As Brother’s Mouth -
Sandra Lim
First Editions -
Julie Marie Wade
The Plague of Blood -
S. Brook Corfman
Blue or Green Poem -
S. Brook Corfman
Dicentra Spectabilis -
S. Brook Corfman
Tableaux -
Martina Botti
The Similarity of Bodies -
Michael M. Weinstein
Dead Name -
Michael M. Weinstein
Trans People of the Past -
Rasha Abbas
Who Will Play Salaheddin? -
Theodore Worozbyt
Dog -
Theodore Worozbyt
The Moon -
Theodore Worozbyt
An Exemplar -
Andrew Collard
Aubade Where Things Are Pretty Good Actually -
Andrew Collard
Bus Stop Promenade -
Andrew Collard
Lo-Fi Citadels -
Zoë Bossiere
Roleplay -
Madeleine Wattenberg
Stream -
Lydia Janbay
Rocky I -
Lydia Janbay
Rocky II -
Ever Jones
Transanything -
Donika Kelly
Someone’s at the Door -
Donika Kelly
Self-Portrait: A Triptych
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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Why We Chose It
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Why We Chose It: “Our House” -
Geeta Kothari
Why We Chose It: “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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Summer 2023
Vol. XLV No. 3
The Summer 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a Women’s Health-themed folio, with poetry by Lynne Thompson, Felicia Zamora, and Cindy Juyoung Ok; fiction by Emma Binder and Kabi Hartman; nonfiction by Susannah Nevison and Sophie Strohmeier; and much more. The annual Nature’s Nature feature, edited by David Baker, showcases poems by Victoria Chang, Terrance Hayes, Joanna Klink, Joyelle McSweeney, Arthur Sze, and Brian Teare, who each also introduce emerging poets. The cover art is by Tawny Chatmon.
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Women's Health
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Fleda Brown
Doctor of the World -
Cecily Carver
The Good Sport -
Maggie Queeney
Naming the Supernatural -
Maggie Queeney
The Patient as Anatomical Venus -
Sydney Tammarine
Shelter, in Place -
Lynne Thompson
Ode to Bones -
Rachel Abramowitz
Nocturne -
Susannah Nevison
Our Lady of the Stairs -
Vi Khi Nao
i ask for noninvasive -
Vi Khi Nao
for Christmas -
Vi Khi Nao
my surgeon tells me (with some unfêigned lonêliness) -
Felicia Zamora
Summoning Huixtocihuatl at My Annual Physical -
Jennifer Steil
Eviscerations -
Melanie Lefkowitz
Bonfire -
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Gran, pre-wolf, plumb morning -
Margaret LaFleur
All’s Well -
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Leave Her to Heaven -
Leslie Jill Patterson
How to Tell a True Love Story -
Emma Binder
Robber’s Lake -
Cynthia R. Wallace
This Is a Book About Trees -
Nickole Brown
Grace -
Carlina Duan
After She Mispronounces My Name for the Fourth Time -
Meredith Talusan
The Bottom of Things -
Emily Schulten
In the World -
Sophie Strohmeier
Séances with Sisi: Romy Schneider, Kristen Stewart, and Other Women Who Gaze into Darkness -
Heather Treseler
Haruspication -
Tyler Mills
Ars Poetica -
Tyler Mills
Totalitarian -
Kabi Hartman
Burnings -
Liza Katz Duncan
North Cape May, March 2022 -
Lisa Hosokawa
The Night You Swallow the Moon -
Fleda Brown
Sick and Writing: Two Poets Converse
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Fleda Brown
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Nature's Nature
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David Baker
Introduction to Nature’s Nature -
Victoria Chang
Mountain, 1960 -
Victoria Chang
Untitled #10, 2002 -
Victoria Chang
Leaf in the Wind, 1963 -
Victoria Chang
Wheat, 1957 -
Victoria Chang
Flower in the Wind, 1963 -
Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang Introduces Jordan Nakamura -
Jordan Nakamura
Lychee Harvest -
Jordan Nakamura
Mycol -
Jordan Nakamura
New Union Dawns -
Arthur Sze
A Letter to Tao Qian -
Wang Jiaxin
Ice Anglers -
Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze Introduces Jennifer Elise Foerster -
Jennifer Elise Foerster
Walking in the Redwoods with My Mother -
Jennifer Elise Foerster
Triptych -
Jennifer Elise Foerster
Aquarium Glass -
Joyelle McSweeney
Death Styles 1.8.21 -
Joyelle McSweeney
A Flower that Refuses to Open: Toward a Decadent Ecopoetics -
Santiago Vizcaíno
The Wind Against My Shadow -
Santiago Vizcaíno
Ashes -
Santiago Vizcaíno
As the Forest Burned -
Santiago Vizcaíno
Locust Tree Forest -
Santiago Vizcaíno
Desire -
Joanna Klink
Landfall -
Joanna Klink
Joanna Klink Introduces Charlie Decker -
Charlie Decker
Into -
Brian Teare
Excerpts from Poem Bitten by a Man -
Brian Teare
Brian Teare Introduces fahima ife -
fahima ife
alchemical sirens -
Terrance Hayes
Comfort Food -
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes Introduces Bernard Ferguson -
b ferguson
what to do with the hedges -
b ferguson
energy -
b ferguson
juxtaposition with winter -
b ferguson
proper burial for the yellow-bellied sapsucker
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David Baker
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Why We Chose It
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Victoria Bosch Murray
Why We Chose It: “Shelter, in Place” -
Caitlin Horrocks
Why We Chose It: “All’s Well”
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Victoria Bosch Murray
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Spring 2023
Vol. XLV No. 2
The Spring 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review includes a folio of literature in translation guest edited by award-winning translators Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Jeremy Tiang. The issue also includes poetry by Kwame Dawes, Timothy Donnelly, K. Iver, and Danusha Laméris; fiction by Sam J. Miller, Michael Tod Powers, J. T. Sutlive, and Lindsay Turner; nonfiction by A. J. Bermudez; and the winner of the 2022 Short Fiction Contest, judged by Karen Russell. The cover art is by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum.
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2022 Short Fiction Contest
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Karen Russell
2022 Short Fiction Contest Introduction -
M. W. Brooke
Siphonophore -
Kira Homsher
Pareidolia -
Alexandra Munck
Doe
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Karen Russell
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Nonfiction
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A. J. Bermudez
Fossil Land
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A. J. Bermudez
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Fiction
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Sam J. Miller
A Field Guide to the Bear-Men of Leningrad -
J. T. Sutlive
Two-Headed Dog -
Lindsay Turner
The Bear -
Isabelle Burden
The Snail -
Susan Shepherd
Baboons -
Michael Tod Powers
Two House Cats, Bearing News
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Sam J. Miller
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Poetry
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Kwame Dawes
The Remnant -
Kwame Dawes
Gated -
Catherine Staples
Inflorescense -
Pádraig Ó Tuama
After the Flood -
Gabriel Antonio Reed
Wing Studies -
Danusha Laméris
Okra -
Joy Priest
Redemption -
Joy Priest
The Black Outside -
K. Iver
East Manhattan -
Margaret Galey
November -
Timothy Donnelly
Wandering Castle -
Timothy Donnelly
To Eat a Peach
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Kwame Dawes
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Translation Folio
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Anton Hur
Introduction to a Translation Folio Guest Edited by Jennifer Croft, Jeremy Tiang, and Anton Hur -
Manikkavacakar
Whose Words Are Rubies: Excerpts from “Tiruvcakam” -
Bae Myung-hoon
The Aspiration for “Cha-Ka-Ta-Pa” -
The U.S. War Department
a sequel under [an old name], exposed: Excerpts from “The People of the Philippines” -
Nhã Thuyên
Don’t Hide the Madness -
Florentino Solano
Loom -
Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Retranslating Poetry with Runes: A Ritual for Poet-Translators -
Olja Alvir
Vienna Calling -
Diana Iepure
Two Poems from “Other Than That, Life Is Beautiful” -
Ao Omae
Tumbleweed -
Daisy Rockwell
Shahen-Shah-e-Kulfi in a Golden Jungle -
Lee Jenny
Unappeasable Peas -
Clarisse Baleja Saïdi
Guests, Ghosts, Hosts (or, Adaptation; or, Language on Being) -
Zhu Yue
A Diagram of the Two Sexes -
Edvard Munch
Notes on “The Scream” - Dead Sea Scroll
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Anton Hur
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Why We Chose It
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Claire Oleson
Why We Chose It: “Two House Cats, Bearing News” -
Andrew Grace
Why We Chose It: “Inflorescence”
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Claire Oleson
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Winter 2023
Vol. XLV No. 1
The Kenyon Review’s Winter 2023 issue marks our return to a quarterly publication schedule and the debut of our new magazine design, with cover and logo by Janet Hansen and interior design by Sebit Min. It includes a folio of fiction guest edited by Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon, who selected stories by Tom Comitta, Anna Hartford, Amina Kayani, hurmat kazmi, Danny Lang-Perez, and Sarp Sozdinler. You’ll also find nonfiction by Robert Finch and Diane Mehta; poetry by Megan Fernandes, William Logan, and Maria Zoccola; plus the winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Contest judged by Maggie Nelson, and so much more. The vibrant cover art is a detail of Justify by Krista Franklin, and inside the issue, you’ll find a portfolio of art by Jordan Seaberry.
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2022 Nonfiction Contest
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Nonfiction
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Diane Mehta
Documents -
Robert Finch
The Bell(s) of St. Alban’s -
Marianne Jay Erhardt
The Girl the Girls Piece Together
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Diane Mehta
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Fiction
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Karolina Letunova
This Story of Migration Exists in Two Languages, and Why Shouldn’t It? -
Karolina Letunova
We Break Apart -
Emeline Atwood
The Orphanage
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Karolina Letunova
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Bridges: A Fiction Folio
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Laura van den Berg
Introduction to Bridges: A Fiction Folio Guest Edited by Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon - Private: The Evening of Orphans (print only)
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Anna Hartford
The Large Glass -
Tom Comitta
The Snuff Box of Mr. —— -
Danny Lang-Perez
Block Party -
Sarp Sozdinler
Ladybird -
Amina Kayani
The Storyteller
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Laura van den Berg
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Art Portfolio
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Jordan Seaberry
The Seven Lives of Momentum
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Jordan Seaberry
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Poetry
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Madeleine Cravens
Sonnet with Two Bridges -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy Goes Ice Fishing -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy Calls Her Sister -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy on the Affair -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy in February -
Maria Zoccola
Helen of Troy Avoids Her School Reunion -
Suphil Lee Park
Little Is Unchanged of the Landscape in Retrospect -
Eric Pankey
Empty Calendar -
Eric Pankey
Notes Home -
Ruth Ellen Kocher
god of salt -
Megan Fernandes
The False Beloveds with One Exception (or, Repetition Compulsion) -
Paula Bohince
Sumptuary -
Paula Bohince
The Bee -
Paula Bohince
Songbird -
Ella Finer
The Night, like the Bridge, Another Kind of Arc for Her to Cross -
Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí
After the Laying -
Candace G. Wiley
Unidentified Suspect -
Candace G. Wiley
We Mutants -
Abbas Kiarostami
Eight Poems -
Cate Lycurgus
There Together is Enough -
M.K. Foster
World’s Oldest Spider Dies, Aged 43 -
M.K. Foster
Sister Blue -
William Logan
In Memoriam, In Advance
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Madeleine Cravens
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Comic
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Coyote Shook
Bitterroot: Visions of the Martyr Saint Lawrence
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Coyote Shook
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