Category Archives: Notes on the Poetry Selections
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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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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentJune 20, 2021 by The Citron Review
As I write this letter, it is humid in North Carolina, even in Asheville. In other parts of the state …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
1March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review
The other day, I was teaching a creative writing class and showed Charlotte Pence’s “Consciousness” on the overhead, as I …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentDecember 20, 2020 by The Citron Review
This fall has been good for reading. At semester’s end, I am fortunate to have time to reread old favorites …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2020 by The Citron Review
As I write this note for the fall issue, pileated woodpeckers are destroying my house. Beautiful creatures they are, and …
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