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The Kenyon Review's 2024 Summer Reading Recommendations " Kenyon Review Blog

Jun 11, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Jackson Saul

Again this summer, The Kenyon Review shares staff reading recommendations! Interested in purchasing any of these titles? We encourage you to do so through our Bookshop.org page! I don’t often re-read the same book in one season, but I made an exception for Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf, 2024).
February Clear - The Kenyon Review

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Maya C. Popa |Josephine Miles

Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022) and American Faith (Sarabande Books, 2019), which won the North American Book Award. She is the Poetry Reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and teaches poetry at New York University and elsewhere. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry from Goldsmiths, University of London, and was previously a Clarendon scholar at Oxford University. Her weekly newsletter, Poetry Today, is a Substack Featured Publication.
It's Still Light - The Kenyon Review

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Sylee Gore |Josephine Miles

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From the Fort Behind the Conifers

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Eliza I. Gilbert |Christine Imperial |Peter Kazon

After the fire it rains dandelions and we wear the fall like coats of paint on some small immortal toolshed. The game is this: You are a snake charmer. I am a pine cone. No tag-backs. Our father knows Latin but forgets that a burnt tongue is a temporary death sentence. So we stay outside. In the game.
New Mercies - The Kenyon Review

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Emily Elaine Doyle |Christine Imperial |Peter Kazon

Emily Doyle’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares (spring 2024), The Sun (winter 2023), Epiphany (winter 2023), and elsewhere. Doyle was a finalist in the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest and for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Bread Loaf–Rona Jaffe Foundation Participation Scholarship and the Abraham Lincoln Polonsky Endowed Award.
I Tell Etel Adnan about The Legend of Zelda

Feb 29, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Summer Farah

Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer from California. The author of the chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024), she organizes with the Radius of Arab American Writers and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
A Year After I First Loved Haikyuu,

Feb 29, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Summer Farah

Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer from California. The author of the chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024), she organizes with the Radius of Arab American Writers and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
Emergency Exit - The Kenyon Review

Feb 29, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Lauren Davis |Peter Kazon |Drew Zeiba

“I’m hearing voices,” Mr. Engels said. He’d written a prompt on the board. Do you want to be famous? Why or why not? Why is fame so compelling? Kids were still talking. I sat at his desk in the back of the room, taking notes. It was my first day observing his class. I’d forgotten to wear deodorant. “Maybe you’re hallucinating,” a student called out. His hood was pulled up. In eyeliner, he’d drawn two little tears leaking onto his right cheek. “Are we in your head?”I began to sweat.
The Kenyon Review's 2023 Winter Reading Recommendations " Kenyon Review Blog

Dec 14, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Jackson Saul

We’re pleased to share this winter’s Kenyon Review winter reading recommendations. Click here to purchase the books that appear here on the KR Bookshop.org page. Tina Cane, Winter Online Adult Writers Workshops Faculty I am not sure how I stumbled upon Jo Clement’s Outlandish (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), but I am delighted that I did. It’s riveting. Clement’s voice is instantly distinct, as she harnesses deep music and arresting imagery to evoke Roma cultural traditions and legacy.
Flight Risk - The Kenyon Review

Nov 28, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Emily Stoddard |Sarah Minor |Jenny Apostol

Emily Stoddard is a past recipient of The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers in creative nonfiction, and leads workshops as an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists. Her work has appeared in Belt Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, The Baltimore Review, Nimrod, Whitefish Review, and elsewhere. Her debut book of poetry, Divination with a Human Heart Attached (Game Over Books), was released in 2023.