Why We Chose It
Geeta Kothari
February 5, 2013
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Stories set in moving vehicles—buses, trains, cars—often give the appearance of movement. The writer establishes a destination, and this often creates a false sense of urgency and suspense. “Care,” by Karin Lin-Greenberg, points out that this sense of movement—in traffic…
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Ian Burnette Wins Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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February 5, 2013
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Ian Burnette, a junior at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina, took first place in this year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers presented by The Kenyon Review. Burnette’s poem “Full…
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Tiffany Midge Wins Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry
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February 5, 2013
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We are pleased to announce that Tiffany Midge is the winner of the first Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry for her collection, “The Woman Who Married a Bear.” An enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux, Midge holds…
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Not a Universal Story, a Flexible One
M. Lynx Qualey
February 4, 2013
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When reviewer Sarah Irving read Nihad Sirees’s The Silence and the Roar, she saw Palestine. This is not particularly surprising; I imagine Sarah, who has written a biography on Leila Khaled and a Bradt Guide to Palestine, sees analogies to Palestine…
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“Our Sea of Plastic”
Craig Santos Perez
February 1, 2013
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Tongan writer Epeli Hauʻofa once wrote: “the sea is our pathway to each other and to everyone else, the sea is our endless saga, the sea is our most powerful metaphor, the ocean is in us” (“The Ocean in Us”…
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