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KR
Reading Period Ends January 31
Writers interested in submitting work for consideration must submit by January 31. After that time, work will not be read again until September 1, 2007. Please note that KR only accepts work via its online submission program. Email or snailmail submissions will not be accepted. Please read our guidelines for more information.
Think
of this section as a bulletin from KR in which we brag about
the accomplishments of the extended KR family and leave out the
gall-bladder surgeries.
- Leslie Adrienne Miller's poems "Aim" and "Wandering Uterus," published in KR's special "Writing in Code: Literature and the Human Genome Project" section (Winter 2006), were selected by Heather McHugh for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2007. Miller's book The Resurrection Trade, in which the winning poems appear, is due out from Graywolf Press this March. She will also read from her book at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Atlanta this spring.
- Ellen Bryant Voigt's Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 is available this month from Norton.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Coming in Spring...
Announcing
the Spring 2007 issue of
KR:
- Fiction by Alice Hoffman, Tara Ison, Rebecca Kanner, Man Martin, Janet Peery, and Judy Troy.
- Poetry by Eavan Boland, Peter Cooley, Carl Dennis, Linda Gregerson, Susan Hahn, Jay Hopler, Joanna Klink, Khaled Mattawa, Kevin McFadden, Campbell McGrath, Arthur Rimbaud (as translated by John Kinsella), Tracy Ryan, and Natalie Shapero.
- Reviews by Saskia Hamilton, Sam Pickering, and Willard Spiegelman.
- "The Casual Reader" by André Bernard.
- And introducing a new column, "Just Not for Us," in which essayist/novelist Roger Rosenblatt takes a darkly humorous look at the writer's life.
Don't miss it...on newsstands in March. Better yet, order a subscription now and get it in your mailbox.
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EVENTS KR READING IN NEW YORK SLATED FOR FEB. 8
The
Kenyon Review Board of Trustees will host a reading by authors Rebecca
McClanahan, Brad Kessler, and David Goodwillie on Thursday, February 8.
The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Skylight Room at the CUNY
Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
REBECCA
McCLANAHAN’s recent book, a collection of essays
entitled The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, won the 2005
Glasgow Prize. She has also published four volumes of poetry and three
books about writing, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More
Descriptively. McClanahan teaches the Creative
Nonfiction workshop at KR's Writers Workshop summer
program. Read her moving essay
about September 11th.
BRAD
KESSLER is the author of Birds in Fall, Lick Creek,
and The Woodcutter’s Christmas, as well as several award-winning
children’s books. His work has appeared in numerous major periodicals
such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The
Nation. Kessler will lead the Intro
to Memoir Writing at this summer's KR Writers Workshop.
Read KR Fiction Editor Nancy Zafris's interview
with Kessler, along with an excerpt from Birds in Fall.
DAVID GOODWILLIE, author
of Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, is a 1994 Kenyon
College graduate and erstwhile baseball player. His writing has also
appeared in Black Book, Swink, and he is a contributor to the
essay collection My Father Married Your Mother.
The reading is free and open
to the public, but seating is limited. To reserve a space, please RSVP
by February
7 to rsvpny@aol.com or (212) 629-8748.
FROM
THE ARCHIVES
Winter 1940
Fighting them here
so we don't have to fight them over there.
In January 1940, the FBI arrested 17 men accused of a terrorist plot
against the United States. The plot, according to the Associated Press,
included
"plans to blow up buildings, raid utility plants and government
offices, 'liquidate' Jews, assassinate a dozen unidentified congressmen
and set up a dictatorship." J. Edgar Hoover said that the men
were members of an inner circle of the Christian Front, an anti-semitic
organization.
The AP story quoted Hoover as saying that "more than half the
suspects served in the active or reserve branches of the armed forces
of the
United States or were members of the New York National Guard."
Today
it's video games; yesterday, toy guns. 
In
January 1940, criminal courts, federal agencies, and advocacy groups
were railing against the use of toy guns. A hearing in Chicago suggested
that toy guns led youths into lives of crime. And a WPA toy store in
St. Louis dumped hundreds of toy popguns into the river.
The
Winter 1940 issue of The Kenyon Review featured W. H. Auden's
tribute to Sigmund Freud, who had died just months earlier. Read
the entire poem on the KR site.
for sigmund freud
When there are so many we shall have to mourn,
When grief has been made so public, and exposed
To the critique of a whole epoch
The frailty of our conscience and anguish,
Of whom shall we speak? For every day they
die
Among us, those who were doing us some good
And knew it was never enough but
Hoped to improve a little by living.
Such was this doctor: still at eighty he wished
To think of our life, from whose unruliness
So many plausible young futures
With threats and flattery ask obedience.
But his wish was denied him; he closed his
eyes
Upon that last picture common to us all
Of problems like relatives standing
Puzzled and jealous about our dying.
For
about him at the very end were still
Those he had studied, the nervous and the nights,
And shades that still waited to enter
The bright circle of his recognition
Turned elsewhere with their disappointment,
as he
Was taken away from his old interest
To go back to the earth in London,
An important Jew who died in exile.
