Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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A Stream of Prayer
1June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar When my family in India sleeps, I recite Aayat-e-Karima, a verse from the Quran, counting …
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Barefoot Diptych
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Rachel Laverdiere Click here to read the poem in the original formatting. Rachel Laverdiere writes, pots and teaches …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
In her autobiography All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou says, “The ache for home lives in all of …
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Companion
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Ronsman It was 2:30 am in the summer of pandemic nightmares when I saw you from the …
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Disdain Forward
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Jen Rouse What if I start the story here, today, in a room with 15 people, a Dialectical …
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mother
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
by Kerry Herlihy 4.Her father has vanished again, maybe onto a tugboat on Lake Erie or into a bottle …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
Where do inspiration and organization meet? Are they at war? Or is it more of a cooperative struggle resulting in …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentMarch 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 …
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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
1March 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 …
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Mr. Fix-It
Leave a commentMarch 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 …
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