Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Sabotage (or So Much for the Revolution)

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    March 20, 2019 by The Citron Review

    by Alina Stefanescu    with the Beastie Boys as in wreck with slow hands, trawling the shores of my flesh, …
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  2. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    March 20, 2019 by The Citron Review

    These days, spring is less predictable in Asheville due to climate change. When I moved here in 2010, seasons were …
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  3. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    March 20, 2019 by The Citron Review

    I know that if I tell you where I live and also say that this winter has been a tough …
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  4. Anchor

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    March 20, 2019 by The Citron Review

    by Robert Carr   Shelves stacked with entrails of telephones. Cop-car black, house-smoke yellow, the avocado- green of mother’s Lazy …
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  5. Record

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    March 20, 2019 by The Citron Review

    by James B. Nicola   The Center, if it holds, requires the Hole, as if the Spiral were pressed in …
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  6. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    Inside this Starbucks, one sees winter is coming. Every cup, snack, sign, and coffee-accompaniment is decked in shades of red …
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  7. Keyhole

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by M. Nasorri Pavone He asked her out on a blind date. They could meet but there’d be a door …
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  8. Mirage

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Clara Burghelea The day was here and then it was not. It could be never more or less than …
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  9. A Sequence of Five Poems

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    by Simon Perchik First on paper then the carpenters following the saws –in the end the house was divided with …
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  10. Notes on the nominations

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    December 21, 2018 by The Citron Review

    Bear with me; I’m new here. I should always lead with this, perhaps with a please in front. After all, …
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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