Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Cloudy

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Bethany Jarmul   Altocumulus A cloud is hanging over me.  In my first profile photo on Facebook, I was …
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  2. CRONE

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Lori Barrett   Ingredients: water (up to 60%); fine lines (rhytids); not-so-fine lines (wrinkles); sagging skin (wrinkle folds); new …
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  3. Extinguish

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Jared Povanda   The way the bird falls down the chimney, as if the chimney is a mouth, as …
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  4. Mycteria americana

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Liesel Hamilton   I The first time I saw a wood stork, it was in flight. As I floated …
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  5. How to Not Write After Supper in the Summer

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Nicholas Howard   You’re in the garden weeding, watering, encouraging.  A storm earlier broke the humidity with a flash …
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  6. What Comes to Mind When You Call Me A Goddess

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Michaella Thornton   Botticelli’s Venus, except she stands naked in a field of corn or soybeans or a grove …
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  7. Notes on the Micros

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    Being Micros editor at The Citron Review means that I have the honor of reading incredible work that pushes the …
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  8. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    I’ve been spending a lot of time in my backyard garden. Early in spring I cleaned away winter’s debris, planted …
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  9. Notes on the Micros

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    German philosopher and critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno wrote: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” It’s oft-quoted, misquoted, embraced, …
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  10. BUSTED!

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Shifra Sharlin   In the first nine months of 2020 when I was being treated for breast cancer, through …
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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