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Dear Friend:

Welcome to our new newsletter! I'm convinced that the electronic universe will play an ever more important role in the literary community. After all, the Internet offers wonderful creative opportunities. And we are committed to ensuring that The Kenyon Review remains a leader.

This newsletter is but one innovation. We will send this out occasionally, not as spam, but to those friends and readers who are eager to know more about what's happening with KR and with the larger literary world. Many of you have asked for such a forum, where we can bring news and information to you more quickly than is possible with our quarterly print journal.

In the KR newsletter you will find announcements about programs and contests; suggested readings; opportunities for interactive response; links to interviews, podcasts, and updated information on our website, kenyonreview.org. (The look of that site is fresh and continually developing as well.)

The newsletter will be, I am sure, a real complement to The Kenyon Review itself. I look forward to hearing your responses to this new initiative and your suggestions for how to make it even more useful and interesting.

Yr editor,
David Lynn

KR Receives Major Grant from Surdna Foundation

The Kenyon Review is pleased to announce that it has received a $100,000 grant from the Surdna Foundation in New York City. The grant, which will take place over a two-year period, focuses on recruiting disadvantaged students to attend KR's Young Writers summer program. According to Surdna, this marks the first grant for the foundation's Creative Writing Initiative. The grant will increase the enrollment of talented minority and disadvantaged students through recruitment, application support, and follow-up.

The Surdna Foundation was established in 1917 by John Emory Andrus to pursue a range of philanthropic purposes.

An Interview with Brad Kessler
by Nancy Zafris

@@alt@@ Brad Kessler’s latest novel, Birds in Fall, is hitting the bookstores as I write this. Library Journal calls it a “perfect gem of a novel.” A selection from it won a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts grant. Kessler’s previous books include Lick Creek and The Woodcutter’s Christmas. His essays and articles have appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, the New York Times Magazine, among others, as well as in The Kenyon Review (“One Reader’s Digest: Toward a Gastronomic Theory of Literature,” Spring 2005). He is the author of several award-winning children’s books, and the recipient of a Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. He has taught at the New School University and in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He lives with his wife, the photographer Dona Ann McAdams, in Vermont...

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Submissions News

KR's new reading period begins September 1, 2006 and runs through January 31, 2007. Please be sure to read our guidelines before submitting. In particular, you'll note that we no longer accept snailmail submissions. Instead, we offer a special online program (it's free!). Read the FAQ for tips on how to submit.

| Summer 2006 |

Fiction | Philip E. Deaver · Bridget Bentz Sizer · Don Lee · M. Allen Cunningham

Essay | Randy Fertel

Interview | Eamon Grennan by William Walsh

Poetry | Randall Mann · Ales Debeljak · Andrew Zawacki · Eugenio Montejo · Kirk Nesset · Steven Gehreke · Linda Gregerson · Barry Hill · Jay Parini · Joy Harjo · Michael Pettit · Eamon Grennan

Reviews | André Bernard · Emery George · Cynthia L. Haven

Exchanging Words

Recommended reading from the KR staff, editors, and readers.

Tell us what you're reading—send us your top three recommendables (books, magazines, blogs, etc.) and be sure to include your name, affiliation, and any web addresses for your recommended reading list. Click here to send us your list.

David Lynn, Editor...

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. A funny, moving novel about generations of Ukrainian immigrants living in Britain today, facing many of the same family and immigration issues familiar in the United States. A delightful read.
District and Circle, the new collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney. Strong and supple, these poems go back to Heaney's roots in the soil and sinew of Ireland, but the past always intrudes into the present, and vice versa. These poems remind us that Heaney remains a poet of singular power, immense skill, and a harrowing honesty.
That They May Face the Rising Sun — also by an Irish writer, John McGahern, who recently died. This is not a book for those addicted to plot and speed—the farthest thing from The DaVinci Code! McGahern's prose is precise, fluid, lyrical, creating a universe set in a remote but contemporary Irish village. Be patient: this builds to an enormous, satisfying conclusion and vision of life.

Meg Galipault, Managing Editor...

Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman. Each story is a little gem.
Maud Newton's blog Can't help but love a writer who has spent as much on her teeth as I have on mine and still has a sense of humor. A small Harley, indeed.
Puschcart Prize XXX. One of the best ways to get caught up on poetry and prose appearing in lit mags in the last year.

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Kenyon Review Site Links Current Issue \| Order \| Info for Writers \| Workshops \| Interviews		Dear Friend: Welcome to our new newsletter! I'm convinced that the electronic universe will play an ever more important role in the literary community. After all, the Internet offers wonderful creative opportunities. And we are committed to ensuring that The Kenyon Review remains a leader. This newsletter is but one innovation. We will send this out occasionally, not as spam, but to those friends and readers who are eager to know more about what's happening with KR and with the larger literary world. Many of you have asked for such a forum, where we can bring news and information to you more quickly than is possible with our quarterly print journal. In the KR newsletter you will find announcements about programs and contests; suggested readings; opportunities for interactive response; links to interviews, podcasts, and updated information on our website, kenyonreview.org. (The look of that site is fresh and continually developing as well.) The newsletter will be, I am sure, a real complement to The Kenyon Review itself. I look forward to hearing your responses to this new initiative and your suggestions for how to make it even more useful and interesting. Yr editor, David Lynn
KR Receives Major Grant from Surdna Foundation The Kenyon Review is pleased to announce that it has received a $100,000 grant from the Surdna Foundation in New York City. The grant, which will take place over a two-year period, focuses on recruiting disadvantaged students to attend KR's Young Writers summer program. According to Surdna, this marks the first grant for the foundation's Creative Writing Initiative. The grant will increase the enrollment of talented minority and disadvantaged students through recruitment, application support, and follow-up. The Surdna Foundation was established in 1917 by John Emory Andrus to pursue a range of philanthropic purposes.		An Interview with Brad Kessler by Nancy Zafris Brad Kessler’s latest novel, Birds in Fall, is hitting the bookstores as I write this. Library Journal calls it a “perfect gem of a novel.” A selection from it won a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts grant. Kessler’s previous books include Lick Creek and The Woodcutter’s Christmas. His essays and articles have appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, the New York Times Magazine, among others, as well as in The Kenyon Review (“One Reader’s Digest: Toward a Gastronomic Theory of Literature,” Spring 2005). He is the author of several award-winning children’s books, and the recipient of a Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. He has taught at the New School University and in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He lives with his wife, the photographer Dona Ann McAdams, in Vermont... More >>

Submissions News KR's new reading period begins September 1, 2006 and runs through January 31, 2007. Please be sure to read our guidelines before submitting. In particular, you'll note that we no longer accept snailmail submissions. Instead, we offer a special online program (it's free!). Read the FAQ for tips on how to submit.
\| Summer 2006 \| Fiction \| Philip E. Deaver · Bridget Bentz Sizer · Don Lee · M. Allen Cunningham Essay \| Randy Fertel Interview \| Eamon Grennan by William Walsh Poetry \| Randall Mann · Ales Debeljak · Andrew Zawacki · Eugenio Montejo · Kirk Nesset · Steven Gehreke · Linda Gregerson · Barry Hill · Jay Parini · Joy Harjo · Michael Pettit · Eamon Grennan Reviews \| André Bernard · Emery George · Cynthia L. Haven		Exchanging Words Recommended reading from the KR staff, editors, and readers. Tell us what you're reading—send us your top three recommendables (books, magazines, blogs, etc.) and be sure to include your name, affiliation, and any web addresses for your recommended reading list. Click here to send us your list. David Lynn, Editor... A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. A funny, moving novel about generations of Ukrainian immigrants living in Britain today, facing many of the same family and immigration issues familiar in the United States. A delightful read. District and Circle, the new collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney. Strong and supple, these poems go back to Heaney's roots in the soil and sinew of Ireland, but the past always intrudes into the present, and vice versa. These poems remind us that Heaney remains a poet of singular power, immense skill, and a harrowing honesty. That They May Face the Rising Sun — also by an Irish writer, John McGahern, who recently died. This is not a book for those addicted to plot and speed—the farthest thing from The DaVinci Code! McGahern's prose is precise, fluid, lyrical, creating a universe set in a remote but contemporary Irish village. Be patient: this builds to an enormous, satisfying conclusion and vision of life. Meg Galipault, Managing Editor... Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman. Each story is a little gem. Maud Newton's blog Can't help but love a writer who has spent as much on her teeth as I have on mine and still has a sense of humor. A small Harley, indeed. Puschcart Prize XXX. One of the best ways to get caught up on poetry and prose appearing in lit mags in the last year.
This is an edition of the Kenyon Review Newsletter. To remove yourself from the newsletter mailing list, click here. Contact Info The Kenyon Review 104 College Drive · Walton House Gambier, Ohio 43022 740.427.5208 kenyonreview@kenyon.edu