All New KROnline for May 22, 2013
Three poems by Anna Journey.
New fiction by Natalie Mesnard
Amy Wright reviews Sven Birkertsʼ The Other Walk
Ryan McDermott on Don Lee’s The Collective
A Micro-Interview with Chinelo Okparanta
Just write. Sometimes it will be good. Sometimes it will be bad. Write anyway.
Just read. Sometimes it will be good. Sometimes it will be bad. Read anyway.
A Micro-Interview with Clay Matthews
“But I think I’ve learned to wait and look/listen. Maybe I force poems less. Maybe I just have less to say. Whether it’s a muse or an alien that sends the signals, though, I think we’re on better terms. I’m more thankful when the words do come, because if the last five years have taught me anything, they’ve taught me that poetry is often a game of hit or miss.”
KR May Newsletter
May Newsletter highlights:
The Winners of the 2013 Short Fiction Contest, Editor David Lynn tells “Why We Chose It,” new fiction from KROnline, a poem by Randall Jarrell, and more . . .
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Three Poems
By Anna Journey
Last Nostalgia Starting with a Piece of Spider Plant on our Car’s Backseat
You moved clippings of your childhood spider plant
with us in a Ziploc half-filled with tap water
so we could grow something once rooted in the cool
valleys of Blacksburg in our new
…
Prayer
By Natalie Mesnard
I am telling you, first of all, that your husband will be beautiful, but he will be a man who will love you then stand out on the stoop, the red eye of a cigarette sighing between his lips, his…
On Sven Birkertsʼ The Other Walk
By Amy Wright
Readers of Sven Birkertsʼ Editorʼs Notes in AGNI will be familiar with the value he places on contemplation.
On Don Lee’s The Collective
By Ryan McDermott
In The Collective, the most recent installment of the American campus novel, Don Lee presents a group of Asian American artists whose coming-of-age is marked by an irresolvable conflict:
funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts
Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in GRANTA, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Conjunctions, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Her collection of short stories will be published next year by Houghton Mifflin…
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May 2013
The winner of the 2013 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, Editor David Lynn on Why We Chose It, new fiction from KROnline, and a poem by Randall Jarrell.
April 2013
Why We Chose It, KR Tote Bags, the new optimized mobile site, and more!
March 2013
Poetry Editor David Baker explains Why We Chose It, KR highlights at the AWP Conference, and more!
