Category Archives: From the Editors
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2021 by The Citron Review
Out here in our beloved Western city, it was a hard year to grow anything. Our apartment’s patio was hopeful …
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Notes on the Fiction Selections
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
I have never considered myself an athlete. I like to run and am not-so-secretly obsessed with a popular group fitness …
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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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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 Fiction Selections
Leave a commentMarch 21, 2021 by The Citron Review
The legend goes that one day when he was sixteen, my dad bent down to tie his shoes and could …
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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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Notes on the Creative Nonfiction Selections
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
A few years ago for nine uncanny weeks I dated a man who worked nights and each morning while the …
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Notes on the Fiction Selections
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
Recently, I read an article about the physical and mental benefits of reading. The article detailed the theory of mind—the …
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Notes on the Micros
Leave a commentDecember 20, 2020 by The Citron Review
Crack the classroom windows, even though the air is freezing. Prop the door to get that science-approved cross ventilation. Gasp …
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