Category Archives: 2026

  1. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction selections

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    Welcome to our creative nonfiction for winter, a tapestry woven with longing that evokes the tenderest places within us. These …
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  2. Notes on the Micros

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    Seems significant that on the day of the least daylight, my lamp should go dark. Today on the Winter Solstice, …
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  3. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    Be kind to me, or treat me meanI’ll make the most of it, I’m an extraordinary machine– Fiona Apple, “Extraordinary …
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  4. Pick Me

    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

  5. Carson McCullers was not married when she died, but she did tell Tennessee Williams that she had sex with Gypsy Rose Lee

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Kristen Field   She married Reeves McCullers twice.Divorced him twice. Which decisioncarries more weight? He told her on their …
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  6. Matchbooks

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by JoAnna Scandiffio   we miss those little souvenirsof where we ate when we were oncein love and kept the …
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  7. Afterimage

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Joshua Zeitler             for Lynn   I look for you when the window is open and the world a …
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  8. View of Mountains from the Safeway Parking Lot

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Martha McCollough Click here to read the poem in the original formatting.     Martha McCollough is the author …
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  9. Two micropoems

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Dmitry BlizniukTranslation: Sergey Gerasimov   It’s so easy to breathe after rain.God has just fed his fish. *** Early …
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  10. Tomorrow, Tonight

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Tom Walsh   Tomorrow, we’ll pull on our boots, roll up our sleeves, and pick through the cinders of …
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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