Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Reading Voltaire at Midnight

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    December 20, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Lisa Zaran   It is not easy to love a floor lamp. So stiff with a big head. But …
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  2. Four Poems

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    December 20, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by George Moore   The Basement Room I am twenty.  I will let no one say it is the best …
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  3. Original Romanian Poetry

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    September 21, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Marta Petreu   Licitație de duminică (Sunday Auction—click here for translation) Continuăm să cotizăm pentru proiecte ratate: logodna și …
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  4. Marta Petreu: Poetry in Translation

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    September 21, 2010 by The Citron Review

    originally by Marta Petreu translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Liviu Bleoca   Sunday Auction (click here for Romanian original) …
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  5. How to Find Deceptive Cognates

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Diane Kendig   You will at first adopt them all, thinking them related. (You might take grifo for “grief,” …
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  6. Four Poems

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Curt Eriksen   Patience To have just the time and the good luck to sit and watch all one …
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  7. Waiting for Poems

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Donal Mahoney   Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your …
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  8. Two Poems

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    June 12, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by George Bishop   WEATHERVANE Heading southeast it finally refused the other winds, not even the slightest departure—without notice the …
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  9. Two Poems

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    June 12, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Sergio Ortiz   Nightmares, Secrets, and Museums Think of me as Dionysus, home resting, with a fetus in my …
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  10. Cuba

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    June 12, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Teo Martinez   I want Cuba like golden-tanned expatriotism, Rum beliigerene in linen pants and Wooden sandals I want …
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