Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Jun 14, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Sophie Strohmeier |Fleda Brown |Jennifer Sperry Steinorth |Joyelle McSweeney

In the Viennese neighborhood of Lainz, on the edge of the Vienna Woods, there lies a sprawling park with forests and meadows and little streams. It is imperial terrain, empress-land. In the spring, fawns with their tender white spots linger among the leaves and shiver as they anticipate nightfall. Under vast skies, birds can be heard calling, and though the playgrounds and bucolic paths are popular with locals, a sense of forlornness, of quietly drifting into the distance, is never far off.

Jun 11, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Nickole Brown |Fleda Brown |Jennifer Sperry Steinorth |Bernard Ferguson

Nickole Brown is the author of Sister and Fanny Says. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she volunteers at several animal sanctuaries. To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a chapbook of poems about these animals, won the 2018 Rattle Prize, and Brown’s essay-in-poems, The Donkey Elegies, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020.

Jun 11, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Maggie Queeney |Fleda Brown |Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Maggie Queeney is the author In Kind, winner of the 2022 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Ruth Stone Scholarship, and Individual Artists Program Grants from the City of Chicago in 2019 and 2022. Her most recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Guernica, The Missouri Review, and The American Poetry Review. She reads and writes in Chicago.