Category Archives: 2021

  1. Notes on the Micros

    Leave a comment

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    Spring means baseball. I believe it’s a poetic game. The green expanse, the dust clouds, the quiet waiting for the …
    Continue reading

  2. Restaurant Days, Food Obsessions, and Bourdain

    1

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Eric Steineger   My wife is an ex-professional chef and author of a BBQ cookbook. She used to co-own  …
    Continue reading

  3. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

    1

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    In “Autobiographical Notes” from the 1984 edition of Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin turns his attention to how …
    Continue reading

  4. Notes on the Poetry Selections

    1

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    The other day, I was teaching a creative writing class and showed Charlotte Pence’s “Consciousness” on the overhead, as I …
    Continue reading

  5. St. Augustine Sits

    Leave a comment

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Michael Pittard   next to me peeling my pear with his bitten fingernails the flesh receding at his gentle …
    Continue reading

  6. I saw us in a Vermeer painting with no people in it

    Leave a comment

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Dana Chiueh   O how sweet is that aggressive belonging. O how unkeepable. O how it feels like nature. …
    Continue reading

  7. Mr. Fix-It

    Leave a comment

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Gabriela Denise Frank   My father’s eyes were shit brown. His words. For most of his life, he worked …
    Continue reading

  8. Carolling

    Leave a comment

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Kate Neuman   In the vast, wood-vaulted, ship-like library (est. 1889) that is the pride of Norfolk, CT (est. …
    Continue reading

  9. Ricochet

    Leave a comment

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Lang   Gee, what a nice surprise! my 83-year-old father says when he sees me and asks when …
    Continue reading

  10. Nightwalk

    Leave a comment

    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Vasantha Sambamurti   Be fond of what glows in the dark. The heladería (waffle cone, kind smiles for your …
    Continue reading

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