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extinction--poetry

January 27, 2021March 26, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

Two Poems | C. Samuel Rees

Among the yucca & buggy whips the desert thrums with domestic bliss. They set up store window dummies in cotton dresses, skewed wigs. Cigarette-hewn khaki men

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A World Without Birds | Donelle Dreese

They say finch is in the attic running out of songs to sing / tracking circles on sun-dusted floorboards for the

Three Poems | Becky Thompson

Beyond the off-white metal door
down the hall past the electric chair
and the

There are barbed rose stems | Arien Reed

Replacing my veins
Or so I could have believed
From the lupine-light way
You hid

take it to the river | Sylvia Rains Dennis

January 27, 2021March 15, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

electrocardiogram / don’t look at the line that flattens / without leaping first, still sleeping / ahead of undiscovered country / and the singing to remain here,

A World Without Birds | Donelle Dreese

January 27, 2021March 15, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

They say finch is in the attic running out of songs to sing / tracking circles on sun-dusted floorboards for the

Two Poems | C. Samuel Rees

January 27, 2021March 26, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

Among the yucca & buggy whips the desert thrums with domestic bliss. They set up store window dummies in cotton dresses, skewed wigs. Cigarette-hewn khaki men

There are barbed rose stems | Arien Reed

January 27, 2021March 14, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

Replacing my veins
Or so I could have believed
From the lupine-light way
You hid your skin within my skin

Three Poems | Becky Thompson

January 27, 2021March 14, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

Beyond the off-white metal door
down the hall past the electric chair
and the dank room where men use
the flying carpet to splay women

The Hunt | A. Kaiser

January 27, 2021March 25, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

In a country prone
to teaching royalty
above all
the hunt,
I’ll throw in my own
two cents

Carceral Holocaust | Sarah Degner Riveros

January 7, 2021March 14, 2021
extinction/extinction--poetry

Charisma is an effigy that burns
bright behind bars,
fueled by shame.

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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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