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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.

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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

• FictionFiction

  • 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

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • 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

• Forough Farrokhzad FolioForough Farrokhzad Folio

  • 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

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.

• 2024 Short Fiction Contest2024 Short Fiction Contest

  • Introduction
  • Easton Smith
    The Milk Incident
  • Tamar Nachmany
    Your Girls
  • Victoria Winter Hill
    Cousin Hayden

• CinemaCinema

  • 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

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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

• FictionFiction

  • Manasa Reddy
    Orange Story
  • Corinne Cordasco-Pak
    Whale Fall
  • Sevindj Nurkiyazova
    Greenland

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • Clint Martin
    Cardinal Math: A Multi-Language Approach to Thinking About Some Stuff
  • Jasmine Reid
    the nest of nothing

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.

• 2024 Nonfiction Contest2024 Nonfiction Contest

  • Melissa Febos
    Introduction
  • Jessica Petrow-Cohen
    On Molting
  • Laura Kraftowitz
    Abu Jamil’s House: Portraits of Gaza
  • Cynthia Nwakudu
    In Re-Memoriam

• Far CornersFar Corners

  • 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

• ReviewReview

  • Sam Bodrojan
    I Do Not Know Lucy Ives

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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

• FictionFiction

  • Rebecca Clouse
    A Patient
  • Carole Maso
    from Eternity and the Dreamer
  • Cullen McAndrews
    Boot Road
  • Samantha Jade Macpherson
    Then Who?

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • 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

• TranslationsTranslations

  • 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

• Why We Chose ItWhy We Chose It

  • 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

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.

• 2024 Grodd Poetry Prize2024 Grodd Poetry Prize

  • 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

• 2024 Poetry Contest2024 Poetry Contest

  • Pádraig Ó Tuama
    Introduction
  • James Macmillen
    War Grave

• Rural SpacesRural Spaces

  • 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

• ArtArt

  • Daisy Desrosiers
    Introduction
  • Ming Smith
    Photographs inspired by Jazz Requiem — Notations in Blue

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
    Heartbeat
  • Elise Thi Tran
    The Haircut
  • Sharon Lin
    Mast Year

• FictionFiction

  • Jared Lemus
    Caídas
  • Madeleine Stein
    Eruv
  • Na Zhong
    Daughter
  • Keletso Mopai
    The Wife
  • Sofia Ergas Groopman
    Dinosaurs!: An Introduction
  • Arelis Uribe
    Italy

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.

• ExtinctionExtinction

  • 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

• Art PortfolioArt Portfolio

  • Camille Seaman
    Photographs from Last Iceberg Series II; Lemaire Channel Series; Melting Away; The Big Cloud Series I; The Big Cloud Series IV; The Lovely Monster

• Nature's NatureNature's Nature

  • 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

• Why We Chose ItWhy We Chose It

  • Frances Cannon
    Why We Chose It: “Grief Lessons” by Sabrina Helen Li

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.

• 2023 Short Fiction Contest2023 Short Fiction Contest

  • Introduction
  • Beth Bachmann
    The First Robot
  • Moon Hee
    Inside Jürgen Müller’s Apartment 
  • Mary Catherine Curley
    The Hunting Vest

• FictionFiction

  • Nick Almeida
    The Keys
  • Lauren Cassani Davis
    Emergency Exit

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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,

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • Maurya Simon
    A Tribute to Poet Robert Mezey

• Literary CuriositiesLiterary Curiosities

  • 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 

• Why We Chose ItWhy We Chose It

  • 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

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.

• 2023 Nonfiction Contest2023 Nonfiction Contest

  • Introduction
  • Carrie Cogan
    Lowest of the Low on a High Red Hill
  • Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck
    Poor Historian
  • Mikaela Dunitz
    The Men

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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
    [ ]
  • William Archila
    [ ]
  • William Archila
    [ ]
  • Raina J. León
    For Feeling

• FictionFiction

  • 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

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • Emily Stoddard
    Flight Risk
  • Oz Johnson
    Time Management
  • Jenny Apostol
    The Desire We Were Becoming
  • Sarah Minor
    On Waiting

• Why We Chose ItWhy We Chose It

  • 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

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.

• IntroductionIntroduction

  • Elinam Agbo
    Black Estrangement: An Introduction

• ArtArt

  • Jamiyla Lowe
    Art

• FictionFiction

  • 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

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • 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

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.

• 2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

  • 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

• FoodFood

  • 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

• Luminous Gender VesselLuminous Gender Vessel

  • 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

• Why We Chose ItWhy We Chose It

  • Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
    Why We Chose It: “Our House”
  • Geeta Kothari
    Why We Chose It: “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz

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.

• Women's HealthWomen's Health

  • 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

• Nature's NatureNature's Nature

  • 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

• Why We Chose ItWhy We Chose It

  • Victoria Bosch Murray
    Why We Chose It: “Shelter, in Place”
  • Caitlin Horrocks
    Why We Chose It: “All’s Well”

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.

• 2022 Short Fiction Contest2022 Short Fiction Contest

  • Karen Russell
    2022 Short Fiction Contest Introduction
  • M. W. Brooke
    Siphonophore
  • Kira Homsher
    Pareidolia
  • Alexandra Munck
    Doe

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • A. J. Bermudez
    Fossil Land

• FictionFiction

  • 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

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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

• Translation FolioTranslation Folio

  • 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

• Why We Chose ItWhy We Chose It

  • Claire Oleson
    Why We Chose It: “Two House Cats, Bearing News”
  • Andrew Grace
    Why We Chose It: “Inflorescence”

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.

• 2022 Nonfiction Contest2022 Nonfiction Contest

  • 2022 Nonfiction Contest Introduction
  • Karen Kao
    Fish Tales

• NonfictionNonfiction

  • Diane Mehta
    Documents
  • Robert Finch
    The Bell(s) of St. Alban’s
  • Marianne Jay Erhardt
    The Girl the Girls Piece Together

• FictionFiction

  • Karolina Letunova
    This Story of Migration Exists in Two Languages, and Why Shouldn’t It?
  • Karolina Letunova
    We Break Apart
  • Emeline Atwood
    The Orphanage

• Bridges: A Fiction FolioBridges: A Fiction Folio

  • 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)
  • Anna Hartford
    The Large Glass
  • Tom Comitta
    The Snuff Box of Mr. ——
  • Danny Lang-Perez
    Block Party
  • Sarp Sozdinler
    Ladybird
  • Amina Kayani
    The Storyteller

• Art PortfolioArt Portfolio

  • Jordan Seaberry
    The Seven Lives of Momentum

• PoetryPoetry

  • 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

• ComicComic

  • Coyote Shook
    Bitterroot: Visions of the Martyr Saint Lawrence