From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kenyon Review
The Kenyon Review
The Kenyon Review The magazine’s short stories have won more O. Henry
Awards than any other nonprofit journal—-most recent-
ly, two in 2004. Many poems that first appeared in the
quarterly have been reprinted in The Best American
Poetry series, and the magazine is one of the most fre-
quent sources for the series, where poems originally in
The Kenyon Review have appeared in the editions for 1992,
1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2006.
Masthead
• Editor: David H. Lynn, professor of English at Kenyon
College
• Advisory Board: David Bergman, Robb Forman Dew,
E.L. Doctorow, Daniel Mark Epstein, Alice Fulton,
Amitav Ghosh, Rachel Hadas, Michael S. Harper, John
Hollander, Lewis Hyde, Allison Joseph, Rebecca
McClanahan, Reginald McKnight, Joyce Carol Oates,
Wyatt Prunty, Mary Jo Salter, Michael Wood
The magazine also employs Kenyon students as Student
Discipline literary journal Associates and Interns.
Language English
Edited by David H. Lynn History
Publication details During his 21-year tenure as head of the magazine, John
Crowe Ransom made it, according to the magazine’s Web
Publisher Kenyon College (United States) site, "perhaps the best known and most influential liter-
Publication history 1939-present ary magazine in the English-speaking world during the
1940s and ’50s."[1]
Frequency Quarterly
Indexing
ISSN 0163-075X
Links
• Journal homepage
The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gam-
bier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was
founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and pro-
fessor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its
editor until 1959. The Review has published early works
by generations of important writers, including Robert
Penn Warren, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Lowell, Delmore
Schwartz, Flannery O’Connor, Boris Pasternak, Bertolt John Crowe Ransom (right) with Robie Macauley as he pre-
Brecht, Peter Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Hecht, pares to become editor of The Kenyon Review in 1959.
Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Derek Walcott, Thomas Pyn-
chon, Woody Allen, Louise Erdrich, William Empson, Lin- In 1959 Robie Macauley succeeded Ransom as editor
da Gregg, Mark Van Doren, Kenneth Burke, Delmore of The Kenyon Review,[2][3] where he published fiction and
Schwartz, and Ha Jin.[1] poetry by John Barth[1], T. S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer,
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kenyon Review
Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Richmond Lattimore, thirty. The inaugural contest, judged by novelist Alice
Doris Lessing, Robert Lowell, V. S. Naipaul, Joyce Carol Hoffman, was won by Cara Blue Adams; Nick Ripatrazone
Oates, Frank O’Connor, V. S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon, and Megan Mayhew Bergman were named runners-up.[7]
J. F. Powers, Karl Shapiro, Jean Stafford, Christina Stead,
Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren,[4][5] as well as ar-
ticles, essays and book reviews by Eric Bentley, Cleanth
Notes
Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Ell- [1] ^ "History" the Kenyon Review Web site, accessed
mann, Leslie Fiedler, Martin Green, and Raymond Wil- January 26, 2007
liams. During Macauley’s tenure The Kenyon Review pub- [2] "Education: Ransom Harvest," Time, Monday, May.
lished the first reviews in English of Tristes Tropiques and 12, 1958.
A Clockwork Orange.[6] [3] A John Crowe Ransom Chronology
A decade after Ransom left the magazine, in 1969, [4] "End of the Kenyon?" Time, Mar 9, 1970.
Kenyon College closed it down as its reputation dropped [5] "Robie Macauley" (obituary), Toledo Blade, Nov 22,
and financial burdens continued. In 1979, however, the 1995, p. 12.
quarterly was started up again. Marilyn Hacker, a poet, [6] Berman RS. "Macauley’s ’Kenyon Review’ the View
became the magazine’s first full-time editor. "She quickly from the Sixties." The Sewanee Review
broadened the quarterly’s scope to include more minori- 1979;87(3):500-507.
ty and marginalized viewpoints," according to the maga- [7] April 2008 KR Newsletter
zine.[1]
In April 1994, the college trustees directed that costs
be cut and revenues increased in various ways. Hacker
See also
left and an English professor at the college, David H. Lynn • List of literary magazines
(acting editor in 1989-90), took over on a two-thirds time
basis. The publications finances have stabilized and im- External links
proved and a Kenyon Review Board of Trustees has been
set up.[1] • The Kenyon Review
The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, established in
2008, is awarded annually to writers under the age of
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