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May 13, 2020October 2, 2021
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Plz Drink | Cameron Martin

Walking home around 4PM last fall, I spotted a can in the middle of the sidewalk. Strikingly silver and apparently full, since it wasn’t blown over. No logo, no nutrition facts, no label, only the reflected sun and these words, in shaky black Sharpie: CUM CAN, PLZ DRINK.

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Bohemian Rhapsody–with Grubs | Kirsten Voris

Bermuda grass is a weed, in my mind. Something unwanted, with a root system extending 35 feet down into the bowels of the wash that runs through my neighborhood. A friend told

An Unnatural Divide | by Regina Fitzsimmons

It’s easier and faster to cross into Mexico on foot. Park on

The Daemon Lover | Coyote Shook

Well met, well met, my ain true love/
well met, well met, cried

The Daemon Lover | Coyote Shook

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022
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Well met, well met, my ain true love/
well met, well met, cried he

Bohemian Rhapsody–with Grubs | Kirsten Voris

June 16, 2020October 2, 2021
essay/nonfiction/sonora online

Bermuda grass is a weed, in my mind. Something unwanted, with a root system extending 35 feet down into the bowels of the wash that runs through my neighborhood. A friend told

Plz Drink | Cameron Martin

May 13, 2020October 2, 2021
essay/News/nonfiction/sonora online

Walking home around 4PM last fall, I spotted a can in the middle of the sidewalk. Strikingly silver and apparently full, since it wasn’t blown over. No logo, no nutrition facts, no

An Unnatural Divide | by Regina Fitzsimmons

May 4, 2020October 2, 2021
essay/nonfiction/sonora online

It’s easier and faster to cross into Mexico on foot. Park on the U.S. side, tuck a passport into a pocket, and walk about a mile down a dusty road, toward the

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Sonora Review is among the oldest student-run literary journals in the country, and has been devoted since its founding in 1980 to offering a venue for exciting new and emerging authors, as well as prominent southwestern writers and artists.

In previous issues we have featured work by Aimee Bender, Joy Harjo, and Maggie Nelson, and our editors have included Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and David Foster Wallace. Work originally printed in Sonora Review has appeared in Best of the West and Best American Poetry, and has won O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes.
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