Category Archives: 2020

  1. Bones

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Shome Dasgupta   of what once was: clavicles bonded by time, found between red-yellow eyes, once existed–howling heads of …
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  2. Know No Better

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Shome Dasgupta   let beams be slant: let it be, go forth boneless beams– bent like bent like bent …
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  3. You Scamper

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Allie Mariano   The path through the woods stays straight for nearly half a mile, though a mile, even …
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  4. Litany with Downpour

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Despy Boutris   Rain christens the city, fog as heavy as buildings. The wind wafts between the trees, the …
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  5. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    Parents. We all have them, in one version or another. The flesh and bone fathers who fed us breakfasts; the …
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  6. Notes on the Micros

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    Everything’s too big. If the number is written down, the writer stops writing, starts crying. Again. The deaths multiply in …
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  7. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    “Focus, too, on small occurrences” is something I told my creative writing class this week. We were having a discussion …
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  8. Dresser Drawer

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Bethany Mangle   Sarah lives in a dresser drawer, the one with the mismatched knob shaped like a bumblebee. …
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  9. Polaroid

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Charlotte Hamrick   For ten years you were frozen in a fairy dress. Sweet head of downy hair, lips …
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  10. Dish

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Kylie Westerlind    Henry cooked eggs every morning, preparing this dish the same way every day. Three of them, …
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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