Today is the day!

Whether your application to KR's Summer Online Workshops has been stuck in draft mode, or you're starting one today, complete and send it in by the deadline tomorrow Friday, April 17th, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST. https://kenyonreview.org/event/summer-online-writers-workshops/

Whether your application to KR's Summer Online Workshops has been stuck in draft mode or you're starting one today, complete and send it in by the deadline tomorrow Friday, April 17th, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

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Richie Hofmann and Jon Pineda

We're excited to welcome Richie Hofmann and Jon Pineda on campus tomorrow for a special reading! If you're in the area, we hope to see you there. Richie's latest collection of poems The Bronze Arms came out earlier this year:

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Kenyon Review Reading Series: ZZ Packer

We're very excited to have the inimitable ZZ Packer here at Kenyon College TODAY for a reading happening shortly.

ZZ recently had a story appear in our Fall 2025 issue—“What's Done Is Done,” and you can read it here:

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Apply here!

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Summer Online Poetry Faculty: Lisa Low, Brad Richard, Emily Jungmin Yoon

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to apply for our Summer Online Workshop. In this workshop, you'll work with three different faculty in one genre for an entire week in June. Today, we're shouting out three of our amazing Poetry Faculty: Lisa Low, Brad Richard, & Emily Jungmin Yoon!

Young Writers Workshop Summer Online Apply by April 13

With the rigor and excitement of a residential experience, our Summer Online Workshop is a week-long synchronous, generative workshop. Young Writers find community and explore new possibilities in their work. Apply by April 13:

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Jesse Nathan Summer Online Poetry Faculty

Applications for our Summer Online Writers Workshop close this coming Friday! These workshops present a unique opportunity to work with three different faculty members in one genre. The workshop will meet every day from June 21–27, 2026.

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We're excited to give a sneak peek to our forthcoming print issue! Read “Trail Coltsfoot” on our website now from Joan Naviyuk Kane’s with snow pouring southward past the window published March 3, 2026 by University of Pittsburgh Press.

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Matt Weinkam and Michelle R Smith from Literary Cleveland Join The KR Associates on Kenyon College's Campus

Huge shoutout & welcome to Matt Weinkam & Michelle Smith from @literarycleveland.bsky.social who will join us today on Kenyon's campus to speak with the KR Associates. This is a great opportunity for the Associates to learn from two wonderful people doing great things for the lit community in CLE!

Rebecca Makkai Summer Online Fiction Faculty Apply by April 10

If you're carving out time to devote to writing this summer—check out our online workshops. Fiction writers will work with 3 different faculty including the AMAZING Rebecca Makkai in a generative workshop for a week in June. Apply by April 10:

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Yohanca Delgado Summer Online Fiction Faculty

Apply to our Summer Online Workshops by April 10! For an entire week, you will work with three different faculty in one genre. These generative workshops are rigorous and community-focused like our residential workshops.

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From "Warrior Song" by Benjamin Garcia: When we had no faith luck was our faith. When we have finished death will be our luck.

Apply to our Summer Online Writers Workshop by April 10

Taking things back to Benjamin Garcia's "Warrior Song" from a special KR online feature back in the day. Benjamin Garcia is one of the amazing Poetry Faculty for our Summer Online Workshop: a week-long synchronous experience in June. Apply here:

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In “The Neo-Classical Urn,” published in The Kenyon Review’s Winter 1964 issue, Robert Lowell recounts something he did one summer as a boy: He caught dozens of turtles and put them in a large ornamental barrel, where most of them died.

In that season of joy my turtle catch was thirty-three, dropped splashing in our garden urn, like money in the bank, the plop and splash of turtle on turtle, fed raw gobs of hash.

"He told Elizabeth Bishop—who read a draft—that he had no idea the turtles were dying, but the poem he wrote has notes of self-reproach. Its subject—the harm caused to a vulnerable, wordless being—is both ethically and aesthetically challenging to handle."

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Young Writers Summer Online Workshop Apply by April 13, 2026

With the rigor and excitement of a residential experience, our Summer Online Workshop is a week-long synchronous, generative workshop. Young Writers find community and explore new possibilities in their work. Apply by April 13:

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From "Visitation" by Jill Bialosky: “A bush that looked because of the light as if it were a burning heart, / & from it a shape like an angel or a ghost fanned & faded, / & my child with her heaviness in my arms, finally.”

From the Visitation folio in our most recent issue, "Visitation" by Jill Bialosky unspools both absence and presence. Concise and winding line breaks create a path you cannot resist following. Read the poem in its entirety here:

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Kenyon Review Summer Online Writing Workshop: 1 workshop, 3 faculty

What makes our Summer Online Workshops so special? Pick a genre and work with three different faculty in one generative workshop for one week in June! It's designed with the same rigor of a residential workshop but with more flexibility. Apply here:

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Summer Online Workshop Nonfiction Faculty Rajiv Mohabir, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, and Nita Noveno

If you're looking for an awesome workshop experience this summer, but can't make it to Gambier, OH—look no further. Our summer online workshops present a unique opportunity to work with three different faculty members across the same genre. Apply here:

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From The Disparate Heart by Jacque Gorelick

We have a special feature today—read “The Disparate Heart” a companion piece to author Jacque Gorelick’s MAP OF A HEART: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, LOSS, AND FINDING THE WAY HOME (Vine Leaves Press, 2026), published on February 17, 2026.

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From Light Work by Sasha Burshteyn

“The idea is of the spectacle: Invent
photography to sterilize
our battles — to preserve artifice in silver
gelatin and fixities of light.”

—Sasha Burshteyn

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Viet Thanh Nguyen Reading Today!

Today, we're welcoming back students from spring break with a showstopper reading! Join us and 2025 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement Honoree Viet Thanh Nguyen on Kenyon College's campus this evening for what is sure to be a memorable gathering.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen March 16 at Kenyon College

Tomorrow, we are excited to host 2025 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement Honoree Viet Thanh Nguyen on Kenyon College's campus! If you are in the area, you definitely don't want to miss this reading.

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Summer Online Workshops for either Adult or Young Writers

Are you looking for some time to devote to your writing this summer but can't make it to one of our Residential Workshops? We are accepting applications for our Summer Online Workshops for either Adult or Young Writers into April! Learn more at the link:

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Viet Thanh Nguyen March 16, 2026 · 6 p.m. Brandi Recital Hall, Storer Hall made possible with support from the Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture Fund

We are thrilled to host the 2025 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement Honoree Viet Thanh Nguyen on Kenyon College's campus this coming Monday! This reading is on campus, and if you are here, you are in for a memorable evening.

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I Must Listen to the Birds but the state stole all my good metaphors

Today's Feature:

"I Must Listen to the Birds" by @deesoulpoetry.com from @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Spring 2025

Read here:
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Young Writers Workshop: "“This workshop reminded me why I fell in love with writing. It helped me reconnect with the part of myself I express only through words. I leave feeling grateful, inspired, and whole again.” Palak Gupta

Young Writers—the deadline is almost here for our Residential Workshops this summer. At these generative workshops led by distinguished instructors, you will challenge yourself and develop your voice in a supportive and passionate community of peers. Apply here:

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From "This Is Your Life" by Lily Felsenthal

“What is a muse to a painter’s wife?”

A fully enthralling piece from our latest issue—“This Is Your Life” by Lily Felsenthal is an ekphrastic story responding to Andrew Wyeth’s portraits of Helga Testorf. Read it here:

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From "God I just want to talk" by Arro Mandell

"God I just want to talk" by Arro Mandell delivers beauty, terror—and that ending! We will be revisiting this one again and again. Read and listen to it in our latest issue:

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