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07/29/2026

“I’d love to know forgetfulness.”

Read & listen to “Post-Pandemic” by Ross White from our latest issue at the link below.

Ross White is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He is the author of Charm Offensive (Black Spring Press Group, 2023), winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and The Southern Review, among other publications. White is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches creative writing, grammar, editing and publishing, and podcasting. Follow him on Bluesky at .com.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/post-pandemic/

07/27/2026

Absence and precision shape the lines while music carries the heart of the piece in "Kill Site: A Fugue" by Ellen Rogers. Read (and listen!) to it in our latest issue at the link below.

Ellen Rogers holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University and is a 2025–26 Loft Mentor Series fellow. Her work appears in AGNI, Ecotone, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other journals. Formerly a poetry editor for The Hopper and assistant managing editor of Bellingham Review, Rogers now works in environmental communications.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/kill-site-a-fugue/

07/24/2026

"By unofficial dwellings,
A mobile city of tents and caravans,
The city outside the city
Which is the city."

A remarkable piece with excellent pacing—read and listen to "St. Monica and Her Son St. Augustine Enjoy a Meal at the Tombs of the Dead" by Luke Dunne in the Invisible Cities folio!

Luke Dunne is a writer from London. His poetry has appeared or will appear in The New Republic, The London Magazine, and berlin lit. His criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Little Review, West Branch, and Socrates on the Beach. He has won the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and been longlisted for the Dan Veach Prize, the London Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Bridport Prize.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/st-monica-and-her-son-st-augustine-enjoy-a-meal-at-the-tombs-of-the-dead/

07/22/2026

Some karaoke and meeting photos from the second session of our Young Writers Workshop. You can just feel the energy and excitement buzzing from these. There's a bright future ahead of these students, and we're excited to see what's next for them!

If you participated in any of our workshops this summer, drop us a line, so we can follow and keep up with you.

07/20/2026

This excerpt is from a new poem by Jill Jones in our latest issue. "Pressure" arrives at an ending so surprising and satisfying. Read it at the link below.

Jill Jones’s latest book is How To Emerge (Vagabond Press, 2025). Her book Wild Curious Air (Recent Work Press, 2020) won the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and in 2015 Jones won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014). Her work is widely published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, the UK, and the US. She recently contributed a chapter to New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry (Palgrave, 2021), and a cowritten chapter to the Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Jones has worked as an academic, arts administrator, film reviewer, journalist, book editor, and bookseller.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/pressure/

07/17/2026

What a poem! “When I voice-to-text “How long have you been divorced?” and my phone hears “How long have you been a horse?”” by Julia Kolchinsky is full of surprise and ingenuity. The language gallops out the gate and does not stop. Read and listen to it at the link below.

Julia Kolchinsky, PhD, is the author of four poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother (The Kent State University Press, 2019), Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), 40 WEEKS (YesYes Books, 2023), and Parallax (University of Arkansas Press, 2025). Her next book, When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2023), is a collection in collaboration with Luisa Muradyan. Kolchinsky is at work on a set of linked lyric essays about parenting her neurodiverse child and the end of her marriage under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, her birthplace. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction in Brevity, The Cincinnati Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Denison University.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/when-i-voice-to-text-how-long-have-you-been-divorced-and-my-phone-hears-how-long-have-you-been-a-horse/

07/16/2026

You can read "Two Thousand Miles Away" by Prince Bush in our latest issue. We highly recommend giving it a listen on our website, too!

Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville whose poems appear in The Believer, The Cortland Review, The Drift, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Bush earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Literary Trust Fellow. He is currently a Yates Fellow and a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/two-thousand-miles-away/

07/15/2026

"What can I say? I have known no greater comfort
than the hum of an MRI machine."

Two new poems by Meghan Plunkett in our latest issue! "Self-Portrait While being Tested for MS" is a devastating poem with beautiful language, intimacy, and so much evocative imagery. Read it at the link below.

Meghann Plunkett is a screenwriter and poet. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she served as a poetry reader for The New Yorker before shifting her focus to television and film. Her credits include Station 19, Rebel, and First Lie Wins, an adaptation of the New York Times–bestselling novel, which she cocreated alongside Krista Vernoff and Octavia Spencer. Her collection What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise was published by Black Lawrence Press (2025). Plunkett’s writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Narrative Magazine, and Copper Nickel, among other publications.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/self-portrait-while-being-tested-for-ms/

07/14/2026

We have two new gorgeous by Éireann Lorsung in our Invisible Cities folio. "Periodic table of the elements" uses citation and arrangement to bring us wisdom and such satisfying imagery. Read it at the link below.

Éireann Lorsung works in a field of images, objects, movement, and texts. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and her collections include The Century (Milkweed Editions, 2020), Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025), and the forthcoming Pink Theory!, which Milkweed Editions will publish in 2027. Find more at ohbara.com.

https://kenyonreview.org/piece/periodic-table-of-the-elements/

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