Author Archives: The Citron Review

  1. It is the Responsibility of the Teacher

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    (after Grace Paley) by Emily Brisse   It is the responsibility of the teacher to shift the desks, arrange the …
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  2. Ninetyish

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Debbie Piercefield My youngest daughter (who is twenty-nine) announced on her last visit home that she needs me to …
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  3. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    In her memoir Motherland, Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramón explores the collapse of her homeland and the loss of her family as …
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  4. Mole Poblano

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Kathryn Jankowski Splashy with color and promising a horticultural paradise, garden catalogues once lured me into purchasing plants better …
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  5. Coelacanth

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Bex Hainsworth I am on the train home, parallelto fields blurring into saltwater,when I think of the coelacanth. Lazarus …
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  6. A Lean Season

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Zoe Boyer Sukkahs rise from the blue-bathed lawnof houses rousing to thin October light,walls half-strung with tarps, beamsbare and …
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  7. Notes on the Flash Fiction Selections

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    As the days grow shorter and the world turn in on itself, our picks this cycle are all ones that …
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  8. What of the Work?

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Trish Hopkinson The kitchen counter is cold, as stonealways is and lunch crumbs leftfrom preparing a single plate are …
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  9. little fires in the body

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Melissa Eleftherion Our dream an owl in Chinese pistache & how it hooted How the dark sirens & we …
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  10. Trailing Light

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Lisa Alexander Baron We are horses chomping at our bits in a moonless night stable with our sable eyes …
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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025