Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. On Faith’s Lips

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Mariam I. Williams   The day she converted me from fat seven-year-old with an overbite and gapped front teeth …
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  2. Lost in Translation

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Pinto True Biz (adj./ exclamation; ASL): Really? Seriously? Yes, really I am nine and my mother is on …
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  3. It is the Responsibility of the Teacher

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    (after Grace Paley) by Emily Brisse   It is the responsibility of the teacher to shift the desks, arrange the …
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  4. Ninetyish

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Debbie Piercefield My youngest daughter (who is twenty-nine) announced on her last visit home that she needs me to …
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  5. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    In her memoir Motherland, Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramón explores the collapse of her homeland and the loss of her family as …
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  6. Mole Poblano

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Kathryn Jankowski Splashy with color and promising a horticultural paradise, garden catalogues once lured me into purchasing plants better …
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  7. Brixton Born and Dreaming

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Felix Bill Brixton born and dreaming, I live in stolen weekends. Back where I belong for just long enough …
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  8. Notes on the Micros

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    December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review

    OK, friends. With the new year about to start I’m setting my reading goals now. Said goals will be based …
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  9. Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    While I don’t think time is literally speeding up, the older and busier I get the more it seems that …
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  10. The Museum of Hidden Sorrows

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    July 1, 2024 by The Citron Review

    by Nancy Barnes   The man on the PBS News Hour calls his project the Museum of Lost Memories. He …
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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