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Philadelphia Stories is proud to share the winning poem in this year’s Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry!
Poetry
Aphorism 31: The Immortality Box
It’s said that many of our diseases are phenotypic consequences of adaptation
Poetry
My best friend who I haven’t seen in ten years texts: It’s a Vonnegut thing…when old couples follow each other back to back like that…
Poetry
TEST SITE FOR A MEMORY SURFACE (I AM EXPELLING THIS)
all the way back to when i was shrieking and my sister was too
Poetry
It’s Not True What They Say About Thunder – ONLINE BONUS
and lightning and how if you count the seconds between the flash and the rumble, you can tell how close
Poetry
In my pocket, the shudder of a newborn marsupial. Along my back, a stampede
Poetry
You haven’t heard this one, but we were there. In the bright ugly room behind a row of bald professors.
Fiction
There used to be a hulking, gothic prison in the exact same spot as my neighborhood’s fancy grocery store.
Non-Fiction
The first book assigned by my new book club in Hong Kong, meeting half a world away from the action it described, detailed the life and career of the Marquis de Lafayette
Non-Fiction
My grandmother chose Benson and Hedges in the gold package until she saw an ad campaign for Eve and switched because it made her feel more feminine.
Review
Count Each Breath by Maria James-Thiaw
Maria James-Thiaw’s latest collection of poetry, Count Each Breath, evokes images of Eric Garner and George Floyd’s deadly encounters with police and the systemic racism built into our justice system.
Review
Burning Sage by Jennifer Rieger
With the subtitle “Collected Writings on Unconventional Motherhood, Unconventional Teacherhood, and Unconditional Love”, author Jennifer Rieger’s debut essay collection, Burning Sage, attempts to warn you of her emotional journey to come, however, it hardly scratches the surface.
Review
Monsoon Daughter by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu
Monsoon Daughter by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu Review by Ollie Shane To read the review of Monsoon Daughter by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, click HERE.