KROnline is all new this week
Fiction: The Cleverness of Crows by Kerry Ryan
Poetry: Meditation on Narrative, Dogma, and Flight by Jeff Gundy
Reviews: Kelly Fordon reviews Lia Purpura’s Rough Likeness and Daniel Poppick reviews Chris Martin’s Becoming Weather.
In Memoriam
The Kenyon Review is pleased to present In Memoriam, a space for remembering notable contributors to the pages of KR. We regret the loss of their voices from the world of arts and letters.
KR remembers Wislawa Szymborska, 1923-2012
On A Diary Of Pique, by Carl Djerassi
“If the poems were made in a time of anger and grief for love lost to another, nearly thirty years ago, they have been collected and edited now with an elegiac grace for Middlebrook and the tragedy of loss that deepens the import.”
Just a Few Spaces Left in KR’s Writers Workshop…
…but they are filling quickly! Space is available in the poetry and nonfiction classes. Expect expert company, an idyllic setting, and a week filled with new work. Interested? Act fast! Apply today.
TALK POETRY
A new collection from The Kenyon Review and University of Arkansas Press featuring nine interviews and accompanying poems from contemporary poets originally publishing in KR and KRO. All interviews are by poetry editor David Baker. Including work from Linda Gregerson, Fady Joudah, Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, Alice Notley, Meghan O’Rourke, Carl Phillips, Stanley Plumly, and Arthur Sze. Get a copy today!
The Kenyon Review Spring 2012
Volume XXXIV | Number 2
The smell of roasted peanuts takes over our one-room thatched hut. My stomach growls and churns. Numbers from the multiplication table bounce around. I close my eyes picturing the glossy golden peanuts waiting by the open fire pit.
Click on the link below to read more from “First Confession” by Nhi Huynh and Minh Nguyen
KR Online
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Meditation on Narrative, Dogma, and Flight
By Jeff Gundy
My people are not natural storytellers.
Ask my father for a story, he’s still trying to get it going
when all the boys have drifted off to the kitchen.
Still, I want the reader as far inside of my skin as possible,
no matter the difficulties. For instance:
The self does not feel like matter, but that’s all it is.
I forget who said so, and I don’t agree,
but it was spoken with such confidence.
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The Cleverness of Crows
By Kerry Ryan
My career as a parasite began in the womb. Mama was hospitalized because I took so much of her blood. When I was born, she ran out of milk and a wet nurse was hired from the village. After a…
Prickly Bright: Lia Purpura’s Rough Likeness
By Kelly Fordon
I can picture Lia Purpura standing stock-still in the middle of Grand Central Station or Times Square, examining with unmitigated concentration a leaf or a cicada or even a washer, an item she has told interviewers. . .
Toward Being Of: Chris Martin’s Becoming Weather
By Daniel Poppick
“Disequilibrium,” the first poem in Chris Martin’s Becoming Weather, challenges the conventional wisdom that a fabled . . .
funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts
Rusty Morrison
Rusty Morrison’s After Urgency won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize; the true keeps calm biding its story won Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award and Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize. Whethering won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She is Omnidawn’s copublisher. Her essay…
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Two Recent Publications by Carl Djerassi
Toward New Pasts and Old Futures: an interview with Linda Norton
The Reconquest of the Long Form
KR Newsletter
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May 2012
Announcing the winners of the KR Short Fiction Contest, and the new KR Fellows! Also, poems by Robert Lowell and Meena Alexander, and a KR blog post by Jake Adam York.
April 2012
KR offers digital subscriptions in the Kindle Store, Introducing the Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry, David Baker’s new book Talk Poetry, and more.
March 2012
Join KR at AWP; last call for Short Fiction Contest and Young Writers Applications; plus, a poem by James Dickey from the KR Archives.
