Category Archives: Notes on the Poetry Selections
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Notes on the Poetry selections
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2025 by The Citron Review
If you are a longtime reader of Citron, you might remember that last year I shared with you that as …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
Hear me out, won’t you dear Citrons? For our mental and emotional health, poetry needs carnival barkers. And in equal …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
1December 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
Recently I talked with a friend about the clarity middle age brings to the places we left of our own …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentJuly 1, 2024 by The Citron Review
I’ve been getting up and going out early in the morning with the puppy, but even at 6am it’s already …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2022 by The Citron Review
Our Winter selections are filled with honest poetry about love and desire, loss and forgiveness, and the yearning for something …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2022 by The Citron Review
Sometimes, quick as a slip, memory deposits us in a place we have not visited in years. I like to …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentJune 22, 2022 by The Citron Review
Summer in Nashville is hot, and I feel that, wherever you are, readers, it’s probably hot there as well. May …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentMarch 21, 2022 by The Citron Review
My family just moved to Nashville. Moving is a hard time, but one that is exciting because you replace a …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentDecember 22, 2021 by The Citron Review
When I think about the poems of Citron’s winter issue, one word that comes to mind is curiosity. Curiosity, I …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2021 by The Citron Review
The gerund moving and the infinitive to move have different connotations. Moving conjures a range of pathos, from how-exciting-it-is-to-be-getting-out-of-here! or to-someplace-new! …
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