Topic: Kenyon Review — The Kenyon Collegian

Section: Arts

Kenyon Review Fellows read personal poetry and nonfiction

Last Tuesday, at 4:30 p.m., two distinct voices shared their written work in Cheever Room of Finn House. Keith S. Wilson, 2018-2019… Read More

by John Jacob
September 20, 2018
Section: Arts

The empirical and lyrical intersect during summer program

Both science and poetry are tools used to analyze life in greater specificity, to break it into parts. Whether those parts materialize in… Read More

by Cassie Coale
September 13, 2018
Section: Arts

Kenyon Review recommends:

An American Marriage Tayari Jones I was really dazzled by Tayari Jones’s new novel An American Marriage, which tells the story of… Read More

by The Kenyon Collegian
March 1, 2018
Section: Arts

GLCA New Writers Award tour makes a stop at Finn House

On Monday night, novelist Charles Boyer, a recipient of the Great Lakes College Association (GLCA) New Writers Award, was bashful when acknowledging his… Read More

by Ulysses Yarber
February 22, 2018
Section: Arts

Boyer and Horton draw upon life histories in their new works

Although writing in different genres, authors Charles Boyer and Randall Horton are both familiar with the challenge of translating lived experience into language. Read More

by Katherine Franco
February 15, 2018
Section: Arts

Poet reflects on his experience as an immigrant, war refugee

Poet Javier Zamora writes about his life through memories of pain and pleasure, using his own experiences to reflect on race, politics, immigration… Read More

by Ulysses Yarber
February 1, 2018
Section: Arts

On the Record: Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is an Irish writer. His books include The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn and, most recently, House of Names. He was the recipient… Read More

by Dan Nolan and Kevin Crawford
November 16, 2017
Section: Arts

Kenyon Review Literary Festival features new voices and established writers

This weekend, poets and writers from across the world will intersect on the Hill for the annual Kenyon Review Literary Festival, which will… Read More

by Ulysses Yarber and Katherine Franco
November 9, 2017
Section: Arts

Saskia Hamilton brings poetry to Family Weekend

When Saskia Hamilton ’89 was in graduate school, she worked as an assistant for Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell’s ’40 second wife. Hardwick, who… Read More

by Frances Saux
October 12, 2017
Section: Arts

Poetry preview: Rajiv Mohabir deconstructs identity

As a queer, Indo-Caribbean man who has lived much of his life in American cities that lack diversity, poet Rajiv Mohabir blends the… Read More

by Dan Nolan
September 7, 2017