Connecting with Ha Jin’s “In the Kindergarten”
by Sabrina Flemming · September 06, 2016Deception is a resource learned at an early age for children, a universal skill that is a natural part of our lives growing up. As infants, [...]
Read Morefrom THE DEN
Gregory Fraser to Receive the James Dickey Prize for Poetry
by Megan Sexton · June 14, 2016We are delighted to announce Gregory Fraser as this year’s winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. His poems will be published in the Volume 18, number [...]
Read More
Love, Loneliness, and the “Monday Girl”
by Parker Sams · April 29, 2016I don’t think I’ll ever forget seeing New York City for the first time. My flight was coming in for the landing, dipping below the clouds, [...]
Read More
Revival of the Spirit
by Charles Bailey · April 28, 2016The last dregs of my undergraduate college days are closing in. It is a melange of sleepless nights, anxiety, and molehills of coursework that would disturb [...]
Read More
Morning (and Mourning) in “Time To Go”
by James Brady · April 26, 2016What is it you like about morning? The freshness of the leaves under the golden glow? The odd, indefinable scent of the waking woods? The crisp [...]
Read More
Connecting with Andrea Hollander Budy’s “Thanksgiving”
by Whit Bolado · April 25, 2016In her poem, Thanksgiving, first published in Five Points Vol. 12, No. 3, Andrea Hollander Budy delivers a scene familiar to me, and many others, I can only imagine. [...]
Read More